DeMar DeRozan

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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DeMar DeRozan is a basketball player for the Sacramento Kings. He's a six time NBA All-Star and an Olympic gold medalist. DeRozan just released a memoir: Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm. He joins us to talk about some tough subjects covered in the book like his struggle with depression. He also gets into what it was like to be named dropped in one of the hottest songs of summer – Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar.

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0:26.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fund.org and is distributed by NPR. It's bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. My guest, DeMarne
0:47.1	My guest DeMarne grew up in Compton, California, who's a top hoop's
0:51.2	prospect out of high school, went on to play at USC.
0:55.3	He was drafted to the NBA in 2009 by the Toronto Raptors.
0:59.6	He played with them for nine years.
1:01.3	He's also played for the San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, and now the Sacramento
1:05.6	Kings. In that time, he earned six all-star nods and an Olympic gold medal.
1:11.0	In February of 2018, DeMar sent out a tweet.
1:15.7	It read, This Depression Get the Best of Me.
1:19.2	It was one of the first times DeRosen publicly addressed his battle with depression. It also opened a door into something that wasn't talked about much in professional sports.
1:28.0	Mental Health. Tamar had a tough time growing up. He lost several family members and friends to gang violence, he had
1:34.4	relatives coming in and out of jail, his mom had lupus. He's carried that trauma with him for most of his life.
1:41.3	As a kid, he would pick fights or punch a wall just to feel something.
1:44.6	When he wrote this Depression Get the Best of Me, it put DeMar in a space of vulnerability.
1:49.6	I mean it would for anyone talking about that publicly.
1:52.8	But DeMar, he's an NBA All-Star.
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