DeMar DeRozan has spoken truthfully in regards to the incident that noticed him and Dillon Brooks ejected after a scuffle throughout a Bulls-Rockets sport in March.
In the course of the March 23 contest, Bulls guard DeRozan rushed towards Rockets guard Jalen Inexperienced to defend him and ended up bumping into him and Inexperienced fell on the ground.
Inexperienced was in some discomfort on the ground and his teammate Brooks confronted DeRozan about it, which led to an enormous confrontation that gamers, coaches and officers needed to break up.
DeMar just lately spoke in regards to the incident and defined that he wasn’t pleased with the best way Brooks got here up behind him whereas he wasn’t wanting.
“I’m not going to lie, I simply don’t like him,” DeRozan stated on The 25/10 Present. “And for 2, don’t stroll up behind me, that’s rule primary, don’t stroll up on no man behind him when his again’s turned.”
DeRozan went on to elucidate that he’s had many a scuffle on the court docket in his time, with gamers like Draymond Inexperienced, however says his altercation with Brooks wasn’t the identical.
“Don’t run up behind me, and simply don’t speak s**t, I respect all people,” DeRozan stated. “Now in the event you’re my man, me and Draymond [Green] speak loopy to one another however that’s my man.”
Brooks has fairly a rep within the NBA, after stirring up a HUGE beef with LeBron James final season.
Because the story goes, Brooks brought on so many points for the Grizzlies along with his unsavory conduct that he was traded away to the Rockets.
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