"DeMar DeRozan's first trip home this season comes a little more than a week earlier than it did in his freshman season.

And if that's the only similarity between the two visits, DeRozan will be one happy Raptor.

The first homecoming was one to forget.

Last Nov. 13, the Compton native led his new team into the Staples Centre where he had starred as both a collegian and high school player and laid one big egg.

Hyped up, as expected, to be playing at home in front of family and friends and having scratched and clawed for every ticket he could get his hands on to accommodate them, DeRozan was all but fried out once the actual game tipped off."