If
Derrick Rose didn’t exist, someone would have to invent him, just for the heck
of it. Last week, Rose said that if the
Bulls didn’t make the playoffs, that would give him extra time to spend with
his son. Well, for the first time in
eight years the Bulls won’t be headed into the postseason, so be on the lookout
for Rose senior and junior at a playground near you.
As
ever with the Bulls’ foot-and-mouth guard, there’s more. Yesterday, he said, “I love the way I
played.” Why, exactly, remains a
mystery. It wasn’t his willingness to
put the team on his back and carry it into the postseason—that kind of talent
has to play more than the 66 games Rose did this year. And Rose’s inability to mesh with fellow
guard Jimmy Butler—they’re going to try to work it out during the summer, says
Butler—makes you wonder to what extent the Oft-injured One believes in teamwork. The soon-to-be-departed Pau Gasol doesn’t
much, and where did that get the Bulls?
The
good news for Rose and the Chicago media is that Cubs’ manager Joe Maddon is
ready to take his place as a maker of comments as profound as they are
dumb. Maddon got a look at the Cubs’ new
clubhouse and declared to the Tribune, “It’s all about now, and I’m all about
now.” In other words, the clubhouse can
be “a great recruiting device, beyond the city and organization and ballpark
and team.”
No, Joe, it won’t be. A player will take an extra $10 million if it
means putting up with a crappy clubhouse before he’ll want state-of-the-art
digs without that extra dough.
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