DeMar DeRozan is certainly headed to his native California, however not his hometown of Los Angeles.
The Sacramento Kings have agreed with DeRozan on a three-year, $73.7 million sign-and-trade deal that may see Harrison Barnes despatched to the San Antonio Spurs and Chris Duarte, two second-round picks and money despatched to the Chicago Bulls, in response to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Per Wojnarowski, the third 12 months of the deal is partially assured for $10 million.
DeRozan himself offered some measure of affirmation quickly after, showing in particular person at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Middle with Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” taking part in within the background. DeRozan is talked about by title within the track and appeared in its current music video.
DeRozan, who will flip 35 years previous in August, averaged 24 factors (on 48/33/85 capturing splits), 5.3 assists and 4.4 rebounds in a league-leading 37.8 minutes per sport for the Bulls this previous season.
That mixture of scoring and playmaking figures to be an attention-grabbing match within the Kings’ lineup alongside De’Aaron Fox, who reportedly performed an vital position in luring DeRozan, and Domantas Sabonis. The Kings haven’t lacked for offense since turning into a playoff workforce two seasons in the past, however they appear to be hoping one other All-Star like DeRozan can increase their ceiling in a aggressive Western Convention.
DeMar DeRozan joins his 4th NBA workforce
DeRozan is knowledgeable scorer, ending top-three in Clutch Participant of the 12 months voting every of the previous two seasons. His mid-range sport is deadly. His playmaking has developed into an asset over the course of his profession, and his 1.7 turnovers per sport this previous season have been his fewest since his rookie 12 months. He’s a sub-30% shooter from 3 for his profession, although he has shot them extra willingly (and efficiently) in current seasons.
DeRozan signed a three-year, $81.9 million contract with the Bulls in 2021. In three seasons in Chicago, he performed a single playoff sequence, shedding a five-game set to the Milwaukee Bucks in 2022. The Bulls certified for the play-in event in every of the previous two seasons and didn’t make the playoffs each occasions.
Since making 5 straight playoff appearances with the Toronto Raptors within the 2010s, together with a visit to the 2016 Jap Convention finals, DeRozan has performed a complete of 12 playoff video games throughout two playoff sequence up to now six seasons. Three seasons on the San Antonio Spurs additionally yielded a single look.
The Raptors traded DeRozan, Jakob Pöltl and a 2019 first-round draft choose (Keldon Johnson) to the Spurs for Kawhi Leonard and Danny Inexperienced in 2018. Leonard led Toronto to its first-ever championship in 2019, and DeRozan has been looking for relevancy on a contender ever since. Right here is hoping he finds it.
As for Barnes, the transfer will ship away one of many Kings’ longest-tenured gamers. The previous seventh general choose and champion with the Golden State Warriors has been a veteran presence on the perimeter for the Kings’ younger core since 2019, and now he’ll head to a Spurs workforce constructing one thing completely different round Victor Wembanyama.