Derrick Rose

May 17, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Just in case Bulls fans weren’t depressed enough these days with the news about the severity of Derrick Rose’s injury, as well as getting bounced from the playoffs in the first round by the 8th seeded team in the Eastern Conference, I thought we should share with them [...]

May 16, 2012 – Dan Favale The Chicago Bulls are screwed, there’s simply no other word for it. Word came Tuesday that Derrick Rose would be out between 8-12 months rehabilitating his torn ACL. From ESPN.com: “We’re at this point very optimistic. … We think of recovery as the long process that’s in stages. But [...]

May 3, 2012 – Allen Moll Even though the 2012 NBA Playoffs are in full swing, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo is hard at work trying to put together the next Dream Team that will take on the World in the London Olympics this Summer. Even with last season’s NBA MVP Derrick Rose going down [...]

May 2, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Derrick Rose going down for the remainder of the playoffs with an ACL tear put a dagger right through the heart of Chicago Bulls fans. In fact many NBA fans in general were sad to see Rose go down. He’s truly one of ‘the good guys’ in sports [...]

May 2, 2012 – Dan Favale Derrick Rose or no Derrick Rose, the Philadelphia 76ers were supposedly no match for the Chicago Bulls. And then Game 2 happened. The Bulls, in their first playoff game without the reigning MVP, were handed a 109-92 beat down on their home court. And now, all of a sudden, [...]

April 30, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors How ironic is it that two guys tear their ACL in their left knee on the same day? That was the case with Derrick Rose and Iman Shumpert on Saturday, the first day of the playoffs. Both guys are done for the year, they both happened without contact, [...]

April 26, 2012 – Griffin Gotta A little over four months worth of NBA basketball is in the books. Tonight, the last night of the regular season, pairings and home-court advantage will be etched in stone for the postseason, which promptly begins Saturday following a day for the qualifying teams to get their minds right. [...]

April 18, 2012 – Dan Favale The Orlando Magic are living a nightmare, yet there is an obscure, hard-to-acknowledge silver lining amidst their generous portion of turmoil. After what seemed like a futile effort to convince Dwight Howard to stay went [...]

April 18, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors This lockout shortened season has been a rollercoaster ride of excitement and highlight reel plays. As the season has wore on it has been looking more and more likely that the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award will be going to either Lebron James or Kevin Durant. I’m not [...]

April 17, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Don’t shoot us based on the title, no one is trying to say Derrick Rose is better than Michael Jordan. We learned our lesson a couple years ago when we ran the “Nextology of Michael Jordan” series. People shouldn’t mess with the G.O.A.T. and his legacy. But we [...]