DeMar DeRozan chose Bulls with Clippers en route to meet, wouldn't have returned to Raptors without Kyle Lowry
DeMar DeRozan recently sat down with his former teammate Serge Ibaka to eat chicken hearts. It was DeRozan's second appearance on Ibaka's cooking show, "How Hungry Are You?" Before the chicken hearts were on the table, the two of them discussed the day that DeRozan decided to join the Chicago Bulls last summer. It began with Ibaka saying that he'd heard his Los Angeles Clippers had a contingent headed to DeRozan's house when they found out the Bulls deal was done. "What happened, bro?" Ibaka said. "Wait, wait, before you answer the question, you were the one, the last two years, you be saying, 'I wanna come back home to play.'" DeRozan smiled and said, "Yeah. Nothing but respect for [team president] Lawrence Frank and the whole Clippers organization. Great people. It definitely was an opportunity that presented itself. I think, for me, the Chicago thing just took off by the time they were on their way to my house to where it ...