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DeMar DeRozan

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  1. “Know how to count to 10, you know, in a sense. I just remember being a kid just saying, you know, don't go there because, you know, these type of people hang there. Don't go to this gas station. Don't walk down this street. These was embedded at a younger age before you could even comprehend everything else that was going on in life. Like, you know, I could point to every single hood in Compton before I could point to the state capital of California. When you grew up that way, it kind of, you know, it kind of... Normalized all the wrong things and wait till you're too old. You don't see nothing else. So it's easy to just get trapped.”

    2024-09-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 593 — DeMar DeRozan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Sure. I mean, that's a tough part about it because, you know, you was able to process and understand, you know. Before you understood algebra or understood, you know, your full history of human existence. Two blocks from here is another game. You knew what street to take, what street not to take. You knew all these survival tactics in the aggressive neighborhood before you even really.”

    2024-09-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 593 — DeMar DeRozan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “For sure. And to think about it, especially while I was working on the book, you start to realize how, you know, a lot of these kids fall victim to a lot of things that's not their fault because it's all you know. If you don't have an outlet to be able to grow, to understand more and want and more, it's easy to get stuck in the place that you grew up in. And that's kind of what it was for me. You know, I just remember wanting more and, you know, me being able to play sports gave me the ability to see more and have an obsession and want to make it out because I've seen where me just playing basketball took me to a tournament that was 30, 40, 45 minutes away, but everything was completely different. You know, I remember the first time I went with the Vegas for playing basketball. I thought I was, you know, it felt like I went to another country.”

    2024-09-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 593 — DeMar DeRozan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “When you grow up in an inner city. And that's kind of what it was for me for a long time until basketball kind of showed me the different sides of life where I remember the first time I played in a basketball gym that had an AC in A. It was. 30, 45 minutes from where I was from, but it felt like I was in another state somewhat. The court was clean. The baskets was nice. And you start to just pay attention to a lot of things and you start to realize, you know, I don't have this or I don't have that, you know, because of the area that I grew up in. So it was a lot of that going on for me.”

    2024-09-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 593 — DeMar DeRozan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Yeah, exactly. You have nothing to compare it to, but that's all you know. So you understand, you know, in that moment. You're looking at it like, you know, it's like this everywhere until you start to see certain shows, movies, and, you know, you start to compare why my house don't look like this person's house or, you know, why we don't have that car that you barely, you know, you see a nice car driving by, you like, we don't have a nice car. Why we don't have a nice car. You know, I get older. So for me, it was you don't know the obstacles that, you know, when you hang with your uncle, you know, you just excited to hang with your uncle, but, you know, you don't know he's a game member. You just think, you just look at it as uncle, you know, same with cousins, same with friends. You just look at them as your safe haven in a sense because that's all you know. You don't comprehend the level of existence of what you really growing up in.”

    2024-09-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 593 — DeMar DeRozan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Sure, I think when you grew up in an environment, young, it's hard to tell really right from wrong because you growing up in the environment that you kind of adapt into at a young age. So it becomes such a norm to you.”

    2024-09-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 593 — DeMar DeRozan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Kids. So I grew up very family oriented. My dad was from Louisiana, small town of Louisiana called Videlia. He moved to LA probably in his early 20s. Met my mom. And, you know, ever since then, the journey began. So it all started for me in Compton, California.”

    2024-09-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 593 — DeMar DeRozan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Born and raised in Compton, California, born in 1989, grew up in a very, very big family of very family-oriented, had a lot of uncles, aunties, cousins, you know, grandmother, grandfather, kind of somewhat typical, you know, family idea, which you'll think have my mom and dad grow with them, you know, raised me from the start. So growing up, you know, as a kid, you know, I just thought, you know, I was living the kid life of not really understanding the struggles that I kind of grew up in because I was surrounded by so much love with my family. That was kind of one thing I always leaned on was, you know, everything family, holidays, you know, weekends, you know, going to grandma's house, she cooking for all her grandkids.”

    2024-09-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 593 — DeMar DeRozan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source