Fred VanVleet Opens Up About The Toronto Raptors Trading DeMar DeRozan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ย. 2020
- Fred VanVleet (The Toronto Raptors) talks about how he felt seeing his friend DeMar DeRozan get traded from The Toronto Raptors to The San Antonio Spurs for Kawhi Leonard.
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winning with your friends hits a lot different
That’s so true
no cap
On everything. When I was in high school I transferred my senior year and our ball team won the chip but it didn’t feel the way I hoped it to feel.
@@YvngGoat_ the team u transferred to or old team
Family *
after hearing about how they did him, it’s safe to say that dunk on chris boucher was personal lmao
lmaooo
Oh For Sure💯
Poor Chris had to suffer the undeserved consequences.
@@QiscCastle 😂😂😂😂
@@QiscCastle lmaoo
If FVV felt like this, imagine Lowry lol
Safe to say he was salty
@Arash Awesomeness thanks for the link
Man, I completely forgot... sheesh
Lowry be like: Celebrate good times, come on!
Demar’s Raptors beat literally everyone in the East except Lebron’s Cavaliers so I get where Fred’s coming from. It’s interesting to see his perspective. I get the feeling that the team was never too crazy about Kawhi but since they won together they’re cool. Maybe Kawhi sensed that and it influenced his desire to leave.
tbh the media can say all they want about how Toronto tried to get Kawhi to stay but everyone wanted Kawhi. The fans and Drake tried the most and the players did the bare minimum "let's run it back" type shi is probably all they said. Kawhi and some NBA fans could sense that they would've rathered lose in the Conference Finals or Finals with Derozan than win with Kawhi...maybe not in the moment but in the aftermath for sure
@Dante 16 y'all won cuz there was no LeBron, and GSW were handicapped with injuries
Kyle was at the parade and led a "5 more years chant" lol. They all wanted him to stay and run it back. Kawhi left because he wanted to go back home. What fred is describing is his initial reaction to the trade, but he knows kawhi was the better player and he wanted him to stay.
@Caп¡s Aпuв¡s Wow, you really brought his username into the mix lmao
@Caп¡s Aпuв¡s Klay and kd got injured how is that not handicapped
“Yea it worked out for us, I guess”
Lol that line
Lol right!!!!! when I heard that I played it 3 times because I didn't think I heard him right
Yea he said that like he doesn’t really like Kawhi or something
@@itznellow9 he didn't say that... he said he was cool with kawhi, although they don't seem to be too close. He also said kawhi is one of those dudes that mostly just do their job, clock in, clock out, that type of guy...
@@itznellow9 Demar was a brother. Kawhi was a co-worker. They lost someone that genuinely cared about the team and the city for a guy that just wanted to do his job and get out. Winning with your brother feels better than winning with a robot.
Only thing that worked out for them was LeBron leaving and KD and Klay getting hurt.
Damn that dinner story sad
He's opening up and being himself.
Frederrrriccooooooooooo
He about to dip and become his own brand that’s why
I love Fred’s cander. He doesn’t sugarcoat anything.
Thats Rockford baby.
"It worked out for us I guess..." Nice way to end it off!
Hahahahah what a Statement
The way he said it sounds so sad
It sounded like Gamora talking to Thanos. Gamora- “And what did it cost you?” Thanos - “Everything.”
"LeBron left we good" , damn Bron was living rent free on their heads.
Lebronto was real man. They gave him too much respect. That was the biggest issue with the Raps Pre-Kawhi. Lebron son'd that entire franchise and they just couldn't get over that hump.
@@JeremyCuddles bro was??? Most teams still building off the idea that he’s getting to the finals with AD and whoever they grab for at least 3 more years.
@@JeremyCuddles A lot of that is true. Although the refs handed Cleveland game 3 in 2018.
🤣🤣🤣 LeBron was legit the boogeyman to them.
Now that got kd even worse lebron is guard able kd isnt 😂
“It worked out for us I guess”. Just shows how unexcited he was about Kawhi
Well when you consider you traded y’all best player who is also his friend, for a guy you saw as not wanting to be there.... yeah you win and you’re happy you won, but he left as expected.... so it’s like in a way it worked out, but now we basically down a guy...
Damn that dinner story sad
"Lebron left and we're good" damn bron really a nightmare for them Toronto boys💀 I'm happy for them they got championship because of it😂
@@6ixHideout Raptors weren't the only ones... they just out there being real about it.
Lebron is a nightmare for the entire league! People make it seem he's just a Raptors killer! He had to beat other teams than just the Raptors to get to the finals when he was playing in the east!
Lebron been banging on the entire eastern conference. Besides Toronto, mainly Boston, Indiana, and Chicago
@@k.k5135 Its true. Lebron was a dominant force then and we couldn't get past him
@@6ixHideout I think if we had Leonard in those years its a different story. Look at the roster we had in those years.
Demar and Lowry are goated. 🐐
Hey kyle
@James Harden you bot
@James Harden ur not a champion tho
Best duo 2021
Lebron left we good😂
Im telling y'all the only thing stopping them was lebron lol he's even saying it
Lebron was so deep in their head 💀
@Tech Labs if he goes to the finals again, then the same can said about the west.
@Tech Labs im not sleeping on gsw but i gotta see what happens after free agency n draft night to determine wats gonna happen next szn
That warriors team just looks so different
Can’t believe how bad that cavs team was and how much bron had to carry them
great players often have lousy careers after a trade because the new team has different everything. Be careful what you wish for Freddie.
Hope he doesnt end up like Bismack lmao
His skill set is more open though and not tied to a system actually unlike demar was a little bit. I’ll think he’ll be fine
@Dwyane Carter same for Vin Baker, with exception of his first year in Seattle.
Lebron left we good😂
@@guywhocommentseverywhere1887 Bismack was nasty with the raps. But after he left everything went downhill for him.
Even with surge, I believe he signed with the magic with Bismack at that time. But surge was doing soo poorly the magic, I still can't believe we Masai trade t-ross for surge. Still blows my mind how he was able to get that trade done. 😂😂😂
“It worked out for us I guess”
Biggest understatement of the century
I think he’s thankful for winning the championship, but he would have liked it more if he won it with Demar and Jakob
FVV one of my favorite players since Wichita. He’s gonna get his respect this year ‼️
Since Auburn h.s
I've been a Raps fan for a long long time. I'm sorry the Raps with DeMar would never have gotten passed the Sixers or the Bucks.
true as much as I loved DeRozan; Kawhi was the reason they beat Giannis and the Sixers.
@@yuno6097 I don't about the Bucks, both Freddy, Pascal and Kyle were big factors in the Bucks series, but Kawhi definitely won them the Sixers series.
@@jaydoode15 kawhi CARRIED tf out of us
@@jaydoode15 averaged an efficient 35 on a team with a dpoy candidate in embiid, a good defender in butler, a great-elite defender in ben simmons
Yes he would’ve, he beat the bucks the previous year, raptors were going to conference finals and probably Would’ve went to finals if lebron was never in the east
No way they get past Philly or the bucks with demar. leonard played incredible two basketball that playoffs. Look at the spurs fall off.
Bucks ya we’ve beat them before but Maybe not Philly and if we’re down 2-0 on the bucks We losing the series with demar
I don’t think the spurs were going to go to much further with kawhi tbh tho. He would had made it to the second or third round maybe but he would of left the spurs for the clips this year too.
Toronto def woulda been out in the 2nd round that year with Demar.
Demar couldn't change his formula to get past those teams
@@walrus3132 bro that spurs team had elite team defense and basketball iq they we're the 2nd seed behind the KD warriors
Thank you for this channel JJ
I'm just so glad this worked out in the end and we got a chip.
Things would be lot darker these days if that hadn't happened.
Lets go Raptors! Im an avid fan!
When he said “We good! Lebron is gone.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
There’s no way in hell were getting to the finals if we keep Demar. Heck we’re prlly not getting past 76ers in the 2nd round. Everyone besides Kawhi played pretty bad offensively
No cap Kawhi turned into Jordan lite for a year
Facts and you telling me demar is gonna funnel giannis to the bigs? Demar is an average player
@@lh1533 Average? Naw, but wasn't enough to win a Finals.
@@lh1533 So if DD is average, I want your list of the best to see who you rate above him. Oh do not forget the league is about 500 players.
Besides having kawhi, you also got lucky facing injured warriors lol
I get the feeling the Raptors players think if they had Demar they would've had the same result that they had with Kawhi. I may be a little biased as a Spurs fan but I really don't think they appreciated what Kawhi did and they really don't understand how badly they played with Demar as the star(in terms of what their talent should've produced).
As a Raptor fan, I agree 100%. I was complaining about Derozan’s style of play in prior seasons. We would have never won.
They beat everyone with demar that season, apart maybe the 76ers
In the playoffs our playstyle always reverted to Lowry or Derozan heroball - that wouldn't have worked in 2019 without Kawhi. Also that Gasol and D.Green addition really helped
Nah, Demar is loved...but I appreciated the type of player Kawhi is....a game changer. Demar's friends were too close to him to realize he's flawed and cant carry a team to the championship.
@@tnikoli40 def not beating the 76ers or the bucks. demar and pascal wouldn't have worked as well deep in the playoffs because demar doesn't space the floor as well as Kawhi, and Kawhi is a way more versatile defender.
Van Fleet a real one
freddy gonna go off next year
@Sammi G you just a hater bro... he got a finals mvp vote, don't forget about that
@@34cvc by a some crack head
^yal really acting like dude didn’t avg 20pts, 7ast, and 1.6 steals a game this past playoffs. Yal tripping.
@Sammi G bad team lol. im out
@Sammi G so a bad team took the Celtics to a game 7? a bad team was the #2 seed in the East? just say you dont watch basketball bruh lmao
He still not happy you can hear it in his voice.. "it worked out for uss ..i guess"
“It worked out for us, I guess”
Winning hits different with ur friends
I love the current core of the Toronto team and I'll be really sad if Fred leaves this year.
Toronto loves Freddie !!!!
Honestly I think Khawi was planning on going to LA the whole time lol. He was like cool let me just get threw this one season in TOR and I'm out. I don't think it was anything the Raps could have done to keep him
Kawhi was trying to get to LA *via* Magic Johnson *before* he ended up in Toronto, which is exactly why PoPpaSpurs traded hisazz outta the country
@@OnewYork bruh I never thought of it like that...lol out the country
@@djwagner8950
the rest of the irony, is something to *think* about, TOO
>"Toronto" traded derozen to gain Kawhi and in the end "both" players are gone from the Raptors 😂🤣
POPpaSpurs sent Kawhi as far from "LA" as possible and in the process "both" Kawhi AND Toronto won a championship AND Kawhi ended up in LA afterall where Kawhi and his Clippers, crumble in the bubble 😂🤣
@@OnewYork no one cares about the bubble but lakers fans that season was a fluke
@@christheclamper6614
NBA cares .. 😂🤣
it's LEGIT!!!
It's crazy to hear from the players saying that about Bron, which is true they had the opportunity to get to the Finals once he left.
"I was hot. But then I got a lot more playing time, I shut down and outscored Steph Curry to win a Title and now I'm about to get PAID." It worked out I guess.
Riiiiight?! looool Fred aint slick
Curry averaged 30.5 points in that finals
Exactly...
Amazing inside story.
And I hate how people hate on players for leaving a team for better situations but don’t keep the same energy for team that gets ride of a player that’s gave his all for them
Freddy U one Classy guy !!!
Lebron beat every team in the east. and now he is in the west doing the same.. so hard to pass the king 👑 ..doesn’t matter if it’s east or west. That’s crazy! G.O.A.T for a reason.
Did you forget he didn't have to deal with a healthy Golden State team?
@@ItzJoker06 still woulda beat them
I hope freddy remembers who got his confidence back when somebody dished him all his open threes against the bucks series. Demar wouldve pump fake and take a retardrd shot and scream foul
There is no bigger slap in the face than being traded or seeing your guy be traded for someone who doesn't even want to be there. Having said that, it's hard to argue the decision when you win a ring...even if it took LBJ leaving and damn near everyone on GSW being injured. Before anyone comes at me, I had that same energy when GSW won their first ring.
Fred can be upset at that time all he wants. But it doesn’t change the fact he got a ring out of it with Kawhi. It’s never personal. DeMar as loyal as he is is always welcome in Toronto.
I bet he’d give that ring up to run it back with Demar. Their friendship is way more
Valuable
@@flexrun5 these guys play in the league for friendship not rings? 🧐🧐🧐
@@mikesand6239 yeah but niggas like Barkley AI Reggie Ewing Stockton Melo played with heart in the spirit of competition not the easiest path to glory. Sure they may not have the rings to show it but they left HOF legacies. So if he had the choice to run it back with Demar instead of Kawhi he probably would choose the former
We all know they wouldn’t of won if kd and klay didn’t get hurt, plus demar would’ve swapping with Kawhi they probably would’ve still won
To me it sounds like FVV is upset because he feels they would have won that year regardless with the OG squad because Lebron was gone. And honestly that’s not unreasonable to argue
Happy every day
And that's why masai is the GM and the players aren't. Raptors would never have won without that trade.
Literally! They would’ve lost to philly in 5-6 and even if they got past philly they wouldn’t have beaten the bucks because kawhi was important in guarding giannis and helping the wall to stop giannis, and even if the raptors got past the bucks the warriors even injured beat the raptors. Masai is a smart man and understand the chance he was taking, it worked out so no one can question his choice and even if it didn’t kawhi is way better option then demar.
And the coach change!
I want demar and aldridge out. Time for spurs to rebuild
@Skinny banana True but he won't win if he doesn't and I wanna c pop win
lol Greg is going to retire Spurs are over
Rebuild with what? Rebuilding for the sake of rebuilding is usually a bad move.
Lol the spurs should’ve been rebuilding for years now 🤣🤣
Pop dont wanna change bruh, he still on that old playstyle.
Freddie's going shopping next Friday. Man's should be grateful for that trade, increased his value tenfold with the championship.. I do understand losing friends though...
when are they gonna get me on the podcast so i can talk about my feelings regarding that fateful day.
They did tho lol
Been awhile DeMarvelous
DeMarvelous D back at it😂! It's been a minute!
Yo I remember seeing either a GoDaddy or a Google Home commercial two years ago, and they used DeMarvelous DeChosen for Demar's nickname. You should get royalties for that lol
@@DCwarrior3They said the nickname in the commercial ? thats hilarious lmao
I never liked Demar as a player once he said in a press conference, “we woulda won if we had Lebron too”. Even if it’s true as the leader of the team you cannot say that out loud.
there’s nothing wrong with accepting defeat especially when they whole team got outplayed by one guy. same thing the clippers said about KD last season. the media tried to make it look like they played badly but if you played your best basketball and you keep getting outplayed by one guy then you’re allowed to say things like that
Taken completely out of context. He was baited into saying that watch the whole interview
This comment is stupid imo. Why shouldn't u be able to accept defeat and move on?
@@dilli915 Facts 💯💯
@@eghoseisiramen1892 lmao everyone who lost against mike in the finals admitted he is the best and admitted they couldn’t beat him
Demar was nurses guy. Nurse been here since 2013 and demar's game took a jump when he got hired as an assistant coach. Whenever the reporters here would get at derozan for his isolation game or lack of 3's nurse always defended him and that was before he became HC.
Okay woj jr., do u know them both personally ? 😂
@@jewmail5395 didn't say i did. All i stated was Nurse took up for him and derozans game took a leap when he was hired.
@@freddycalipari4242 Ik I’m just playin lol. That’s an interesting fact u provided
Fred a real dude. Stand up
He kept it a 100 though gotta respect that
Man I hope freddy stays in toronto 🙏🏿
He wasn't thinking about it when he got that ring. The Raptors basically rented Kawhi.
That ig at the end means something
“Lebron left so we’re good”
0:57 “lebron left. We’re good” 😂😂😂
Freddy one of the reasons the raptors have transitioned to an elite program. By the time lowry retires we’d have great back court leaders for the future
Why was he mad? Demar was never gonna get your a ring..... Kawai did.. simple math..
I get him being Fred’s friend in all, but they’ll still be friends, and besides they got the piece to go to the finals.
Lebron really the final boss for the playoffs
Honestly, the chemistry the Raptors had with DeMar may have been enough to win the chip in 2019. People don't really talk about how they're best opponent was the 76ers. They didn't even face the REAL Warriors.
VanVleet went ham in that finals series
Yeah I was mad pissed when they cut DeMar but..."it worked out for us"
Sounds like he said, "it worked out for us I guess". Lol... So they was never really feeling Khawi lol...
Yo it would be an underrated move if her signed 20M to the Spurs they can make him great
Good trade
"It worked out for us, I guess..."
"It worked out I guess."😂😂
as a raptors fan it really hurt when demar was traded for a championship. Demar deserved a ring though
I was mad too. Really for like two months.
He really said bron left so we good😂😂
I understand but we gave demar 9 season best one was 2016 after that couldn’t get past James
It was the Kawhi trade, Gasol trade and getting Casey out and he's fossilized plays for someone fresh like Nick who was running his offense to some degree
Lmao this ending is low-key sad
I feel like the group with kawhi will never truly be happy they won because they didn't have demar with them. They were such a good group even without a superstar
yeah it definitely worked out I guess
Play with a friend or get a ring with the terminator? I choose the ring.
He gets traded n they win a championship.. I’m not even no raptors fan buh best believe I was pissed when I heard they traded him. He should of gotten a ring too
Honest man is a real man
Fred looks like drake lmaoooooo 😂😂😂
Now you know why Vanleet didn't shake Kawhi's hand at the ring ceremony
Lol I wouldn’t even look kawhis way
@@damnbeezy7136 Why? He seems like a fun guy.
kawhi wasn’t even at the ring ceremony? But if you’re talking about when Toronto gave the tribute and ring to Kawhi at the start of the season, Fred had an knee injury at that time and was out for five games, probably was at rehab and didn’t even come to the games
@@adinavarkey1215 he was behind others teammates, he wasn't dress with the purple uniform, but fred didn't even smiled at kawhi
@@esmeraldaperez1103 oh wow you’re right
Well lets bring him back
despite the chip, i'm still hurt about it
Literally exactly how i felt...did we just trade DEMAR for someone who doesn't want to be here?! Didn't even run it back....
DeMar is my favorite player (not the best just my favorite), but Raptors would of not gotten past Philly without Kawhi
Bron was their kryptonite. I know where he's coming from. Raptors in 2018, literally, were able to beat anybody except them.
Seems like he's talked to you about DeMar DeRozan but he still won a championship any winner did that probably was DeMar DeRozan especially considering he's not as good at in the one-on-one situations down the stretch
Lol FVV sounding like Kawhi wasn’t the centerpiece of their championship run lol
I thought that was drake talking about demar from the thumbnail
DeMar wasn’t the problem for them to reach the finals, LeBron and the Cavs were. With LeBron in the West the Raptors would’ve made the NBA Finals, but they would’ve lost against the Warriors. Therefore getting Kawhi and Green was necessary in order to win, since these two had already experienced that level of pressure. Sorry for DeMar though.
DeMar choked every year. That's definitely on him. It's the sole reason they lost the last time. Everybody 3lse was balling but the guy they counted on arguably the most wasn't doing what he was supposed to.
FVV really didn't show up until the East finals against the Bucks.. He had a bunch of free lives that season overall. The ending vs Boston in the East finals this season was disastrous.. Fred needs to prove himself more in a consistent role overall in the post season. Too much talk in the north, especially after we won with Kawhi/because Kawhi... Not even going to mention Siakim.
Much respect to VanVleet but I doubt the Raptors would've advanced past the 76ers much less the Bucks without Kawhi...
Did they ask him anything about Gregg Marshall?
Demar lacked defense and it showed in the tough games he shyd away. when kawhi got there he changed their whole style. Demar be trying to do 360 layups which look cool and all but defense wins championships . that was the trade of the century for the raptors, it changed their whole mindset instead of having fun with friends they played with an edge which I never saw in previous years . sad to say but mj documentary proves it all there's a time to be friends but when u train and play it aint friends its war . bt this just my opinion no hate just what I saw
Hey Freddie, trust & believe all of Canada felt terrible when Demar was traded.
I’m a believer that the raptors would have still won the chip without kawhi. All they needed was Lebron to leave the East which he did. DeRozan it’s still one of the best guards/forwards in the league. It’s sad how much the praise Kawhi when it should be DeRozan getting that preys it should be him that got to hold that trophy up for the city of Toronto
You clearly didn’t watch kawhi carry us through that philly series. Derozan would have choked just like he always does, and we would have lost in the second round
I love derozan as person, but there is no comparison between him and kawhi
Kawhi averaged 35 points vs Sixers and 30 vs the Bucks. Stop playing around
That ending lmao " it worked out for us i guess.." This foo can't even be happy about winning
I understand he wanted to win with Derozen, his friend, but do you really think they would’ve gotten past philly and the bucks? Kawhi played a big role in those series’ especially the bucks series. He was the one shutting down Giannis and guarding him and let’s not forget who were waiting in the finals. The Warriors.
The way he talking... he definitely not re signing 😭
and they were 1 shot away from getting eliminated in 2nd round
I’m dead “Lebron left so we’re good”😂😂😂😂
If he stated you would have got less minutes he was happy more minutes for him