DeMar DeRozan believes the Raptors would have also won the ring with him without the Kawhi Leonard trade

During an appearance on the First Take show on Wednesday, host Stephen A. Smith pointed out that LeBron James had been the "kryptonite" of the Toronto Raptors in previous postseasons and asked DeMar DeRozan if he believed he could have won a championship with the Canadians after James left the Cleveland Cavaliers to join the Los Angeles Lakers if he had not been traded by Kawhi Leonard.

DeRozan replied: "Yes, I will never discredit those guys - they won it, they deserve it. I finally got to a point where I was happy for them. But I definitely feel it. The only person we couldn't beat was LeBron, that's just the way it was. And I felt that, from the year we had before, we just needed one more piece to give us that final push, and that piece ended up being LeBron going out West. I didn't get to see what would have happened, but with the utmost confidence in myself, I have no doubt in my mind that the same result would have occurred."

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