This is a bit over the top, don’t you think? Yes, there is actually a somber and serious vigil, flowers, photos, crutches, shrine and all, to the knees of Derrick Rose. It’s located at the intersection of Fullerton Ave and Interstate-90 in Chicago. It’s reminiscent of the candlelight vigil Penn State fans had for victories of Joe Paterno vacated by the NCAA.
We’re assuming it’s a group of serious and somber Chicago Bulls fans who put this together; perhaps this shrine is actually tongue in cheek? Meant to be ironic?
Take a look below:
Derrick Rose spoke to the media yesterday and although he didn’t guarantee a return this season, he did sound very hopeful about coming back soon. Rose was given plenty of conversational openings to indicate that he was going to be back before the postseason, and he passed up those shots.
We are still optimistic that he’s coming back in 2014-15; and before the playoffs at that.
Logic would dictate he returns given that
1.) the Chicago Bulls championship window is essentially open for this year, and that’s it.
2.) the surgery that Derrick Rose had on February 27th was very quick and yielded a result that was about as positive as the team could have hoped for.
Of course, it’s interesting now that Derrick Rose said he actually began to feel pain in his right knee back on January 27th; when he was in Oakland.
Because he didn’t tell his team that the knee was hurting him (or at least it didn’t become public knowledge) until February 24th, and that’s what led to the diagnosis (right medial meniscus tear) and the subsequent surgery (partial removal of said meniscus). What does this all mean?
I don’t know I’m not a doctor, and I don’t play one on TV, but maybe we’ll get a better Derrick Rose than the Derrick Rose we saw before?
For his part, Rose said that he’s “killing every workout” right now.
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