A shrill cry that shakes Scotiabank Arena with each Raptors free throw. The noise was amazing, especially since you could clearly hear it on TV, and it’s even more amazing when you know where it’s coming from.
Because it was Diar, the 10-year-old daughter of DeMar DeRozan, who put her vocal cords to work for Chicago!
“I hadn’t had time to realize it, but I heard something”, explains DeMar DeRozan. “And then there was a miss, I looked behind me and I was like, ‘Damn, that’s my girl’. »
A girl, particularly concentrated in order to scream at the right moment, who insisted on being present in Toronto for this decisive match for her father and the Chicago team…
“It’s crazy, my daughter called me the other day after school”continues DeMar DeRozan. “She was like, ‘Dad, can I come to the Toronto game?’ I almost said no because she had school. She insisted. She absolutely wanted to come here and support the team. I said to him, ‘Okay, you can miss a day of school and come to the game,’ and I’m glad I did. I owe him money, that’s for sure. »
Is that what explains the 18/36 free throws of the Raptors, a catastrophic percentage for a team that plays its season? Anyway, that’s the story of the night in the NBA. Even if DeMar DeRozan explains that his daughter will not come to Miami for the second game of the “play-in”. A missed school day still passes, but not two.
