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Eric Koreen: BC on DeRozan extension, after praising him extensively: "We may have to grow together more before that deal is imminent.” Twitter @ekoreen

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Ryan Wolstat: DeRozan said he isn't worried about his contract status (nobody seems to be today) Twitter @WolstatSun

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Amir Johnson, Nick Young, DeMar DeRozan, Dijon Thompson, Dorrell Wright, Bobby Brown, Brandon Heath, Pooh Jeter, and Trevor Ariza were all amongst the players in attendance who grew up in Los Angeles and today have careers as professional basketball players in the NBA or overseas. FoxSportsWest.com

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DeMar DeRozan: Thanks to @usabasketball for the opportunity to play for the USA select team. A hell of a experience. Twitter

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DeMar DeRozan: "If Calderon has to go we will miss him in Toronto." Marca.com

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In an email Thursday night, Thorn denied there’s anything to a rumored deal in which the Sixers would acquire swingman DeMar DeRozan and point guard Jose Calderon, whose contract expires next summer, in exchange for Andre Iguodala and young big man Nikola Vucevic. phillyburbs.com

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Tom Moore: #Sixers Rod Thorn: Nothing to rumored trade involving Raptors and DeRozan/Calderon. Twitter

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Eric Koreen: DeRozan, Bayless, Davis at Raptors draft workouts today. Twitter

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The selected players of the Team USA Select team are: Ryan Anderson (Orlando); DeJuan Blair (San Antonio; DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento); DeMar DeRozan (Toronto Raptors); Derrick Favors (Utah Jazz); Paul George (Indiana); Taj Gibson (Chicago); Gordon Hayward (Utah); Kyrie Irving (Cleveland); Kawhi Leonard (San Antonio); Jeremy Lin (New York); Klay Thompson (Golden State); and John Wall (Washington). Sulia

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David Locke: Huge honor for Hayward and Favors - other members include Irving, Wall, DeRozan, George, Leonard, Blair, Ryan Anderson and Taj Gibson Twitter

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Am hearing that DeMar DeRozan will eventually be added to the USA Select team – can’t find an official announcement but believe it’s already done – that will practice with and scrimmage against the USA Olympic team in Vegas in early July. Good for the kid, no question. It speaks to his reputation among the good young players in the game; he’ll get a few days of intense practice with the best the NBA has to offer and he’ll pick up work ethic things by osmosis if nothing else. Toronto Star

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Casey still thinks DeRozan can be one of the team's dynamic crunch-time scorers in years to come: "That's who we want it to be. That's who we want to be that guy." And for DeRozan's part, he wants to be in Toronto. "Things will definitely be fun because it's a chance to give the city something that they want and something that I want - that's making the playoffs," DeRozan said when asked about the possibility of being part of an exciting, young team. "We're definitely going to make a run next year." canada.com

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DeRozan was the focus of attention from the start after a somewhat intemperate note he sent out via his Twitter feed in the aftermath of Tuesday’s three-point loss in Houston. Either displeased with the fact he sat the entire fourth quarter or with another tough loss (that was Wednesday’s message), the tweet — “straight bull----” — was up for a couple of hours before it disappeared. Casey said he had a word with the third-year swingman about the wisdom of making his frustration known in such a manner. “We’re all frustrated but we have to turn that frustration around into another opportunity (Wednesday),” Casey said before the game. “It’s part of growing up, part of being a professional and, again, it was one of those things out of frustration.” Toronto Star

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But Casey suggested it was better that DeRozan lash out rather than accept a bad finish to a close game that he was forced to watch from the bench. “It shows everybody cares,” the coach said. “It shows you care and that’s why I didn’t make a big deal out of it. It was a good thing.” But a public declaration might not be the wisest move. “We handle it internally and that’s the way it is. . . . We want to be a team that’s about discipline, about doing things the right way and we’re going to be,” said the coach. Toronto Star

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DeRozan agreed. “This is a tough job,” he said. “When you’re a competitor and you’re losing, it can definitely get to you. It’s human nature. We don’t mean no harm by it, it’s our competitive spirit, you want to go out and win every game you play in.” But that frustration may stay private now. “You live and you learn,” he said. “Probably a couple years from now, when I’m a vet or whatever, I can tell young guys, ‘Don’t do this’ or something like that.” Toronto Star

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Michael Lee: Nick Young might be a little fired up. When #wizards arrived this a.m., JaVale McGee showed NY framed photo of DeMar DeRozan dunking on him Twitter

Washington Wizards, Javale McGee, DeMar DeRozan, Nick Young 

DeRozan struggled through another desultory offensive night as the Raptors were beaten 98-91 by the Sacramento Kings at the Air Canada Centre on Wednesday and with Andrea Bargnani headed to hospital for an MRI on a strained left calf, the attention DeRozan is going to attract as the best scorer on an offensively challenged team is only going to get worse. How he handles it — and he hasn’t handled it particularly well in the last week even with Bargnani around to take away some of the pressure — will have a lot to say in how the Raptors get through a particularly arduous stretch of the compressed NBA season. With Bargnani leaving in the second half, DeRozan was held to just nine field-goal attempts and scored just 13 points as Toronto lost for the third time in four games. Toronto Star

Toronto Raptors, DeMar DeRozan, Andrea Bargnani 

“I think maybe he’s frustrated with himself. I don’t know, but a lot of it has come out of the respect the league has for him,” coach Dwane Casey said of DeRozan, who has now played five subpar games in a row. “They put their best defender, John Salmons, on him and then they were bringing (centre DaMarcus) Cousins over early so that’s a lot of respect.” Toronto Star

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So we hear you’re an admirer of the musical stylings of Stratford, Ontario’s second-greatest cultural export? “He’s my favourite singer,” DeRozan said, with a lingering look so deadpan someone on the medical staff went rushing over for the heart paddles. Sing ‘Baby’ for us? “I don’t know the words to that song,” DeRozan said. Toronto Star

Toronto Raptors, DeMar DeRozan, Justin Bieber, Showbusiness 

Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan found out about the tentative deal on Twitter. “We all were fighting for a fair deal and I think everybody just had to come to a compromise,” said DeRozan. “We don’t necessarily get everything we want but that’s how it was going to end. We weren’t going to get everything. They weren’t going everything. Everybody just had to come to a compromise.” HoopsWorld

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