Adin Live - February 20, 2022DeMar DeRozan went from a Crip To NBA Star..
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Summary
Growing up in a gang-filled neighborhood, Demar DeRozan was introduced to gang life at a young age. He would grow up in one of the most notorious and crime-filled areas in the country at the time, and would go on to become a star in the NBA.
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this led now look at him now chat this mother gotta maybe get an mvp probably the best mid-range
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shooter in the nba right now bro literally demar
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his gains across america continue to grow living around this type of violence is no easy task for
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anybody but a select few do make it out the chosen ones and one of those is demar de rosen
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he was a crip him being from compton one of the most notorious and gang-filled areas in the country
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at the time arguably his biggest obstacle was just making it home alive every day but to survive long
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enough and somehow use that lifestyle as motivation to head to the big stages of the nba there's about
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a one percent chance of anyone making it out of that kind of environment and luckily for demar
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he's that one percent what growing up on a rambi avenue the only child to diane and frank derosen
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demar unlike others in his area yo are they throwing up the seas yo
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damn i didn't know demar derosen banged or bung
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loving mother and father what the fuck and watch over his shoulder but regardless if you have parents
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or not growing up in compton isn't easy demar's mother actually talked about her worries of having
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a child grew up in compton saying i had kind of given up chai is compton still kind of like
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hope when i found that i was pregnant with demar that's why i called him the blessed one
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and it would be at just five years old demar will attend his first funeral a funeral for his uncle
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kevin oh man shot in the heart brutally murdered by a rival gang member a member of the bloods oh
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shit demar remembers his uncle as one of the biggest crypts in compton and his death would be demar's
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introduction into gang life oh my goodness the funerals didn't stop there throughout the years
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demar would attend countless other funerals and even at a place in time of grieving the violence
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never stopped demar witnessed shooting and murders while at funerals damn yeah there were actual
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drive-by shootings at funerals diane also spoke about the funerals that demar was attending quite
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often and she said i've been to so many funerals in the hood i lost count but that was the first time
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demar knew of death wow so it's uh safe to say that demar had it pretty rough in his area i'm sorry
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an approximate 10 block radius going around marion anderson elementary school is where the
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posset hood compton crips resided that area quickly became they literally hung out at his fucking school
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that is that is fucked bro imagine you walk outside and you just see gang members bro of your school
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when you're in elementary school that's really fucked up bro demar's identity simply as a result
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of his birthplace it came before no and by the way i'm not saying if you're in a gang i'm not saying
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it's fucked up that you're in a gang i'm saying like it's how do i rephrase that like i would just
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never want to come out of school and see that you know what i'm saying race before anything for him
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reflecting on these times as a young kid demar said it's the first thing you feel accepted by
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it's all i knew damn i look back on it now and it makes no sense but growing up
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it made perfect sense when demar was asked about what he'd be doing if he wasn't hooping
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he said people asked me what i would have done if it wasn't for basketball i can never give a good
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story because i honestly don't know wow i had no other options by age 11 demar was an already
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impressive young talent but to make a name for himself demar still needed to make it out alive
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with his talent worth it he was tall and athletic catching the eye of a local coach when he soared
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over the rim for a tip dunk during an eighth grade league game wow tony thomas who was the assistant
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coach at compton high school spoke about witnessing that play when he said i sat in the stands and i was
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like wow i had seen him in a few parks before but to see him do that in a game at that age that was
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the first time i knew he had a chance to be special chat is fine what is it i have a question like
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what what i have a question at what age does people start usually dunking like nba players
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prospects what do they when like when do they start dunking usually
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father frank was very hard on his son in almost every facet of life what the shots as a little kid
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or even pushing him to the ground to get him prepared for the big men in college and the nba
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crazy demar even admitted that he remembers his dad calling him names like crybaby softy or even tell
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him his opponents wouldn't care and that he ain't demar put the ball away or complain to his mother
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diane but diane couldn't help but notice she talked about this and said the matter he got the better he
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played damn father was tough on him but in that environment you had to be just having a father
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was a massive blessing for demar but one sunday afternoon demar nearly lost that blessing shit he
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and his father were driving on the 101 freeway to visit demar's older half brother in the valley
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demar's in seventh grade at this point and it's just the two of them and frank keeps swerving right
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frank plays it off like everything's okay but the rumble strips tell demar something different
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when they got to jermaine's house frank is still playing it off but demar notices that his dad can't
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even pick up a domino with his left hand is that a stroke the next day urgently his mother diane picks
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up demar from school and brings him to the hospital and when they arrive his mother explained his father
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indeed had a stroke damn his father was not talking to anyone until he noticed his son at his bedside
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before beginning to cry and saying i can't die i can't die until i see all this shit sad bro like
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this is a real fucking crazy story what the fuck damn this is sad as fuck bro you make it this stuck
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with demar but around this time his mother was also diagnosed with lupus a painful autoimmune disease
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that causes the body's tissues and organs to attack themselves with neither parent in good
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health and demar already on a mission to make it to the league bro this only motivated him more
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although basketball was his main focus being from this area he wanted protection and needed to secure
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his safety not being a member of the crips wasn't an option and he represented them throughout his time
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in high school the assumption was that derozan would attend manuel dominguez high school which had
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produced a long list of basketball stars including tyson chandler cedric sabalos tayshaun prince and
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brandon jennings but derozan went on a different path he instead attended compton high school and didn't
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appear in his freshman year for weeks because of outside influence but once demar walked to the front of
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the classroom of a math class taught by thomas the same coach who witnessed his crazy talent
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thomas explained the drive he saw in demar's eyes when he said he actually appeared on my role for
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two weeks but he never showed up when he walked in i sat up tall in my seat and had this big smile on
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my face child i have a question bro like what is the probability to make the nba one out of a what
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what's the probability one out of what and he looked at me and said let's put compton on the map
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straight up however the gang environment heavily influenced derozan at a young age during his time
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in high school demar wasn't seen in any really really job condoned really confirmed it in 2010
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when he tweeted saying hashtag in high school i wore blue every day and it was that same affiliation
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he had in high school that led to his biggest tragedy damn in 2009 the street life caught up
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with demar when he lost his best friend davian child in the middle of his senior year demar was
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home waiting on davian but before he made it there child was shot and killed in a dispute over a dice
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game what according to the police report davian was shot january 3rd while visiting a friend when
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someone in a dark color over dice drove up and shot him child's was taken by ambulance to harper
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ucla medical center where he was pronounced dead demar felt like it was his fault or somehow he could
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have changed the outcome when he said i put a lot of blame on myself i should have just called and
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gotten him it's not his fault they've been close for years as their interest shift from video games
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to girls davian was pretty good in the street fight too and demar backed that statement up when he said
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we never lost now that sick feeling in his gut was worse than ever and he couldn't bring himself
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to go to the funeral it's no doubt making it out of this lifestyle was what fueled demar moving
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forward by his senior season he was ranked among the top five basketball players in the nation
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at the leading compton to a 26 and 6 record in 2016 coach thomas eventually talked about demar's
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legacy saying he was always in the gym he's the hardest working kid i've ever seen he helped turn
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this program around last year we won the school's first division championship since 1969 nice that
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was built on demar coming here and making the school attractive for the local kids even with the
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scholarship offers from north carolina and arizona state derozan stayed close to home attending usc
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many felt like it was a package deal because derozan played aau ball alongside rapper lui
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hey yo chat where's the most dangerous place in the entire world if y'all if y'all had to guess
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where's the most dangerous place in the entire world romeo and both played on the summer league
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team sponsored by romeo's master p leu romeo was more well known for his music but he himself still
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earned a scholarship to usc derozan immediately emerged as a star leading the trojans in scoring and
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winning the pac-10 tournament mvp award wait usc also won the title this led his dreams into becoming
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reality demar left school after that season and to no surprise became a lottery pick in the 2009
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nba draft being selected by the toronto wrap up for him i picked shock to rosen and he said i get
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drafted and go to another country i don't even have a passport shit you know what i mean i get to
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toronto winter comes i'm still wearing chucks i'm the only rookie on the team so i'm just in the gym
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every single night this led now look at him now chat this motherfucker is about to maybe get an
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mvp probably the best mid-range shooter in the nba right now bro literally demar to becoming the man
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he is today star player in the league averaging over 20 points per game for seven years straight
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crazy point everybody knows demar's name because of his time in toronto despite his playoff runs in
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the east derozan has stayed true i'm dick talking who's the best mid-range shooter in the nba right
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now bro it's obviously demar his roots obviously multiple times during games with the raptors well
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demar celebrated hitting a big shot throwing up the signs of where he was from and what he was
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surrounded katie yeah it was sort of controversial but it's who he really is recently being dealt to
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san antonio for kawhi lennar completely changed everything but he still makes an impact year after
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year averaging some of the best all-around numbers of his career but to go from a gang to the nba
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it's something we may never see again that's crazy who else is gang related in the nba
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affiliate it blue face artist gets arrested for stealing his g-wagon
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all you people saying oh you was her you told her you loved her
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wait i never make it okay to steal somebody's car like and drive it across the country to give it
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to their mom anybody who thinks that that's that you're you're you're jackass so pretty much blue
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face artist you guys remember the girl with the teeth that came on my stream and bullied me
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um i guess she stole blue face's car and got caught selling crack cocaine uh what are you guys
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wait chad what did i start at chad what 400 right
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i start for like 407 okay bet bet bet chad is this method a w right i'll be honest
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but we had like a 500x chad i'm rich i don't think y'all realize that bro
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okay you know what 33 or 24 33 24 33 24 33 i feel 33
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you're betting way too much you're losing way more they're saying
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i know i'm risking a lot but you're not realizing chat
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listen you need to realize that listen look if this should be like
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5 20 25 all my numbers please 5 20 25 5 20 25 5 20 25
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we're back chat we're back chat it was about a hit you're doing it wrong what am i doing wrong
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i feel like zero is gonna hit soon i don't know why
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26 31 both my numbers i'll be grateful nevermind 31 31 31
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where is it it's right here it's right here i'm falling in my eyes
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listen chat if we had a 500x listen to me chat if we had a 500x on god
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on god i will give away like 25 ans or 50 or some shit i don't know
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we're making like we're making some good money chats
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it's mid chat say mid money mid mid mid mid mid mid
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y'all remember the old roulette method i can do first to 12 a second to 12