Beef status: officially beefed to the MAX between T.J. McConnell and DeMar DeRozan. We are talking ultimate beefage being beefed right now between these two superstar guards. I don’t know what the ultimate source of the beef is or was, but I do know that these guys are living the beefy life and relishing every beefed-up moment of it.
DeRozan may have come out ahead tonight in the raw points category, but in the raw beef category, McConnell was the clear winner. He was more active, more intense, and most importantly, his team won the game. How can you win the beef if you don’t win the game? You can’t, or if maybe you can, it is a hollow victory.
This is a career-high for McConnell in points, a fact excitedly acknowledged repeatedly by Marc Zumoff. But the real victory is the fact that he showed everyone, in Canada and the USA alike, that he is willing to beef it up with the beefiest veterans of the league.