Drake Throws DeMar DeRozan Jersey Off Stage During Australian Concert
Drake is acting in Australia as a part of his Anita Max Wynn Tour, and all through the Monday (Feb. 17) Sydney display, a fan introduced a DeMar DeRozan basketball jersey on level, which Drake threw ill in disgust.
A clip from the display went viral, which noticed Drizzy acting Her Loss standout “Rich Flex.” The OVO rapper unravels the camouflage Raptors Refuse. 10 jersey and straight away spikes the DeRozan jersey like a soccer then figuring out whose title was once at the again sooner than getting again to the display.
DeRozan was once drafted via the Toronto Raptors in 2009 and spent the primary 9 years of his occupation north of the border. The Compton-bred baller and Drake had been tight during his tenure within the 6, or even gave the impression at the secure of Slam Book in combination in 2016.
“No matter what, when it comes to him, he’ll forever have a friend in me and loyalty out of me because he cared,” DeRozan said of Drake in 2021 then depart the Raptors. “He was there for me when everything was kind of going crazy.”
The connection seemed to move bitter when DeRozan made a cameo in Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” video then Okay. Dot shouted out the hooper at the monitor. DeRozan additionally made an look at Lamar’s Pop Out concert on Juneteenth, the place Kendrick carried out “Not Like Us” for the primary year reside.
Even then the “NLU” cameo, DeRozan tried to turn like to Drake and play games it ill the center.
“We love Drake, we always can play him,” he mentioned all through an interview last summer. “Kendrick been a friend of mine, family. Damn near family, for a long time, for a while. We’re from the same city, we grew up damn near in the same neighborhood … It’s always been there. It hasn’t always been publicized, but, you know, that’s basically family.”
Drake wasn’t going for it and blasted DeRozan at the side of the theory of the franchise ever retiring his Refuse. 10 all through a Toronto Raptors broadcast in November. “Unfortunately we’re playing this goof tonight,” he mentioned on the year. “If you ever put up a DeRozan banner, I’ll go up there and pull it down myself.”
The Sacramento Kings megastar brushed Drake’s feedback off all through a postgame presser. “He’s going to have a long way to climb,” DeRozan quipped. “Tell him good luck.”