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It was as emotional as DeMar DeRozan had been in his three-year stay with the Bulls.
Just minutes after the play-in loss to Miami back in April, the veteran was asked about his immediate future and facing free agency.
“It’s kind of like crawling up that hill,” DeRozan said. “You get knocked back down, you take a look up that mountain and say, ‘Damn, I gotta do it all over again, gotta figure it out.’ “
As of Saturday night there’s now a new hill to climb.
With the Sun-Times reporting earlier in the week that DeRozan had played his last game with the Bulls, he quickly found a new home, sent to Sacramento in a sign-and-trade that gives DeRozan three years and up to $74 million.