I shouldn’t pick
on Derrick Rose because…because it’s too easy, but I’m going to anyway. Rose recently told the Washington Post that
he wasn’t going to sell his Chicago condo at Trump Tower. Why, you ask?
“Because I stay out of the political world,” Rose says. But isn’t he the same person who wore an “I
Can’t Breathe” t-shirt during warmups before a Bulls’ game not too long
ago? “I bought my place before he
[then-developer Donald Trump] became a candidate. And I felt [feel] nobody could [can] tell me
to sell my property.” Indeed.
I wonder if Rose
knows about Dodgers’ first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, who refused to stay at the
hotel part of the development when Los Angeles was in town to play the Cubs
during the regular season (they stayed elsewhere for the playoffs). “We’re here to play baseball, not talk politics,”
Gonzalez told reporters during the NLDS, after word of his mini-protest leaked
out.
Athletes make
political statements by the clothes they wear, the places they stay, the real
estate they hold onto. It would seem
Adrian Gonzalez understands that.
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