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Do you want to know where 34 points a night comes from?

In DeMar DeRozan’s case, 34 points a night comes from a lifetime of hard work, but more recently from a summer he describes as a “sickening dedication to where I had a lot of days where it was just shit.”

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That those days came in the midst of a gold-medal winning run in the tropical climate of Rio only made it tougher.

Now, this wasn’t DeRozan’s first summer of hard work. Anyone who has been around the 27-year-old — the NBA’s current leading scorer — knows DeRozan puts in hard time every summer.

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This summer, that time was just a little harder than previous years.

“I didn’t get to enjoy the summer,” DeRozan said Monday, about two hours before he was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the second time in his career.

“Outside of being on the Olympic team and winning a gold medal, that was awesome, but socially, fun-wise and all that, it was really one of them summers where it was just a sickening dedication to where I had a lot of days where it was just shit.