Holly MacKenzie - Raptors.com
DeMar DeRozan accomplished a life-long dream when the Toronto Raptors selected him with the ninth pick in the 2009 NBA Draft. Just 19 years-old, coming off a solid freshman season at USC, the Compton, California native was headed for Toronto. In his wildest dreams, he couldn’t have predicted speaking into a microphone seven years later, telling everyone watching that, “I am Toronto.”
“I honestly couldn’t have imagined it,” DeRozan said. “Even when I think about it now, I didn't have a passport until I came here and worked out. I’d never been in snow.