{"id":196160,"date":"2025-07-26T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/196160\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:14:10","slug":"demar-derozan-reached-out-to-rudy-gay-after-raptors-trade-got-laughed-at-instead-of-sympathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/196160\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMar DeRozan Reached Out To Rudy Gay After Raptors Trade, Got Laughed At Instead Of Sympathy"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeMar DeRozan Reached Out To Rudy Gay After Raptors Trade, Got Laughed At Instead Of Sympathy<\/a> originally appeared on Fadeaway World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan\u2019s<\/a> world flipped upside down in the summer of 2018 when the Toronto Raptors<\/a> blindsided him with a blockbuster trade. DeRozan, the franchise\u2019s longest-tenured star at the time and a beloved fan favorite, was shipped off to the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> in exchange for Kawhi Leonard<\/a>, a move that sent shockwaves through the NBA.<\/p>\n

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But as painful as that night was for DeRozan, it apparently provided comedic gold for his friend and former teammate Rudy Gay.<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of 7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony<\/a>, DeRozan and Gay hilariously revisited the moment. DeRozan described the emotional toll of being traded from the city he thought he\u2019d retire in.<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan: “I get traded from Toronto in the middle of the night. I’m sick. I’m hot. I’m walking down the street. I’m sitting in a f**king fast food parking lot. Right? I called two people.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“First person I called to tell was Kyle Lowry. Second, I called this motherf**ker. Right? I said, ‘Yeah, bro. These n****s just traded me.’ N***a said, ‘Hahaha.’ N***a started laughing. I’m talking about this n***a laughing on the phone. I’m like, what the f**k, man?… He’s in San Antonio too, right?”<\/p>\n

Rudy Gay: “Nah. After that, he told me he’s in San Antonio, and I laughed again.”<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan: “Yeah, he laughed twice. The second laugh, I hung up on his ass.”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a moment that perfectly captures the deep friendship between the two, where jokes can fly even during career-altering, life-changing events. Rudy Gay, having experienced his own shocking trade from Toronto years earlier, likely understood the absurdity of the situation better than anyone.<\/p>\n

For Gay, it was less about mockery and more about the ironic humor of both of them ending up in San Antonio, completely out of the blue.<\/p>\n

The trade itself was one of the most polarizing in Raptors history. DeRozan had just signed an extension a couple of years prior and had given everything to the franchise.<\/p>\n

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But Masai Ujiri, seeking a title run, pulled the trigger on a gamble: trading DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl, and a draft pick for Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green<\/a>. That gamble paid off. Leonard led the Raptors to their first and only championship in 2019 but at the cost of heartbreak for the man who helped build the foundation.<\/p>\n

While Raptors fans will always respect DeRozan\u2019s loyalty, this humorous story between him and Rudy Gay adds a dose of levity to what was once a painful chapter. In hindsight, that fast-food parking lot call has become a classic tale of NBA friendship one filled with shock, irony, and laughter.<\/p>\n

Related: DeMar DeRozan Slams Young NBA Players Who Are Too Sensitive To Public Opinion And Use Their Phones During Games<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Fadeaway World<\/a> on Jul 26, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeMar DeRozan Reached Out To Rudy Gay After Raptors Trade, Got Laughed At Instead Of Sympathy originally appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,670,3628,1333,3213,1399,529,6,681,1373,969,474,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-196160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-carmelo-anthony","11":"tag-danny-green","12":"tag-demar-derozan","13":"tag-jakob-poeltl","14":"tag-kawhi-leonard","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-raptors","17":"tag-rudy-gay","18":"tag-san-antonio","19":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","20":"tag-toronto","21":"tag-toronto-raptors","22":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114921135591782671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}