On Halloween, the fans of the cops had a big scare. Derrick Rose got up and immediately started drinking, a scene that was a little too reminiscent of his previous knee injuries. You could hear the fans shouting audibly: “NO!”through the TV.
Fortunately, Rose rolled only one ankle. But what these reactions from the fans have shown us is exactly the pressure that is being put on the MVP this year to return as a productive and healthy player. The desperate screams of the crowd prove that Rose’s return means more to Chicago than the possibility of an NBA title.
Plead for everything you want about the cult of celebrities and the money that athletes earn; they fulfill one of the most important roles of our society in our culture. As ridiculous as it may sound, athletes are the closest thing to superheroes. Maybe they don’t jump over buildings and stop plane crashes, but no celebrity can cheer us up like superstar athletes, and sometimes they even change the world.
Years after Hurricane Katrina, the soul of New Orleans was revived by the Saints’ Super Bowl victory. Jessie Owens and Jackie Robinson have used their skills to make statements about racial inequality. In 1980, the American ice hockey team “Miracle on Ice” showed an entire country what heart and teamwork can do with one of the greatest outsider stories of all time. These are specific incidents, but athletes constantly take on the role of heroes.
Almost every bad day can be saved by a big victory of our favorite sports teams. Our athletes inspire us, surprise us and lift up whole fan communities. The relationship between fan and athlete is something that cannot be reproduced anywhere else; something as powerful as it is impossible to understand.
That’s why Derrick Rose has to return.
Rose’s arrival with the Bulls was a miracle in itself; they only had a 1 in 100 chance of making the first pick in the 2008 NBA draft. They took advantage of this choice over the Chicago native of the University of Memphis, who had already proven himself as a student.
From the very beginning, Rose’s passion corresponded to her monster sportsmanship. He overtook his teammates and gave energy every time for every game he played. While he was working on his jump shot and other skills, the cops began to collect coins around him, already calling the young phenomenon their leader for the coming years.
After the addition of a more suitable coach in Tom Thibodeau, victories are beginning to accumulate. Rose’s improved leadership qualities, as well as his sophisticated basketball game, led the Bulls to the best record in the Eastern Conference in the 2010/11 season and led to his coronation as the best player of the same season. The city of Chicago is starting to feel big things for its cops for the first time since Jordan’s departure, this time after a humble, sweet superstar who is not to love.
The following year was marked by injuries for Rose, but although he managed to play only 39 matches, the Bulls again took first place in the Eastern Conference. They would repeat the only playoff series and be ready to start their run against a disjointed 76ers team.
It was the day that Chicago fell silent. In the last two minutes of the match (Thibodeau would be criticized for playing his stars in the garbage minutes), Rose fell into the sun, held on to his knee and smiled in pain. The scene itself: Her star collapses, Marv Albert’s call “keeps her knee up and down.”..”would continue to send devastating cold through the thorns of the followers of the bulls.
The Bulls then lost to the 76ers, with life and hope being completely sucked up by the rest of the team, who were good enough without him to win most of their regular season games.
Since then, his NBA career has been filled with even more setbacks, including a meniscus tear in the first few weeks of his first comeback attempt. He was criticized for not playing after the doctor allowed him to, and Derrick Rose was once able to see people who questioned his heart. With all the efforts you saw from him on the field, how could you suddenly believe that he didn’t care?
But he put everything next to himself and focused on the goal that should be achieved, namely, to try to return not only as the same player, but better. Rose has done everything for this recovery and is trying to get back in shape bodily and mentally.
Now his happiness has come. The lineup around him is more promising than ever, with up-and-coming young players Jimmy Butler and Taj Gibson as well as the improved defensive anchor in the standings, Joakim Noah. A healthy Pink Derrick could mean a Larry O’Brien trophy for the team.
