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Drake takes shots at old friend DeMar DeRozan on Raptors broadcast

Drake isn’t hiding his contempt for old friend and former Raptors star DeMar DeRozan.
DeRozan was in town with the Sacramento Kings to play against his former team on Saturday night, when the Raptors also honoured franchise legend Vince Carter by retiring his jersey.
Rapper Drake was in attendance and made an appearance on TSN’s broadcast, where he took shots at DeRozan.
“If you ever put up a DeRozan banner, I’ll go up there and pull it down myself,” the Raptors global ambassador said, unprompted. At another point, he called DeRozan a “goof.”
After the game, DeRozan was asked about the comments and quipped back: “He’s going to have a long way to climb to take it down. Tell him good luck.”
DeRozan spent his first nine NBA seasons with the Raptors and made four all-star appearances. While playing in Toronto, he befriended Drake, and the two even hung out after news broke that DeRozan had been traded to the San Antonio Spurs for Kawhi Leonard in 2018. 
“We sat and talked for a couple of hours,” DeRozan said then. “Just to hear the words that come from him, being the person that he is in his world, especially in Toronto, and what I meant to the city, it was needed.”
The relationship between seems to have died out after DeRozan made a cameo in the music video for Kendrick Lamar’s viral diss track against Drake called “Not Like Us.” 
In the video, DeRozan crouches and looks toward the camera as it pans out while Lamar raps: “I’m glad DeRoz’ came home, y’all didn’t deserve him either.”  DeRozan is then seen giving Lamar a handshake.
A month after the song’s release, DeRozan joined Lamar onstage at a concert in Inglewood, Calif., while the rapper performed “Not Like Us” six times.
With files from Ilyas Hussein and The Canadian Press

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