On May 3 on ESPN’s First Take, SAS said regarding DeMar DeRozan’s free-agency:
“He’s made it very, very clear that he wants to be in L.A.. He has family out there. He’s from out there. He wants to be in L.A. He wants to wear the purple and gold, and if there’s a way for it to happen, again he’s restricted, if there’s a way for it to happen, DeMar DeRozan will be in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform next season.”
Guess what, there totally was a way for this to happen because the Lakers had a ton of cap space and didn’t even get a whiff of this one. Instead, they signed Timofey Mozgov to a four-year, $64 million deal.
Here is again spouting his BS after the Raptors lost to the Cavs: