Derrick Rose, a former NBA MVP, ends his 16-year basketball career
- Crowned the league's youngest MVP in 2011
- Brilliant point guard who was a member of six teams
Derrick Rose, the Chicago Bulls' first-round selection in the 2008 NBA Draft and the 2011 MVP of the league, announced his retirement on Thursday. At the age of 22, he secured the MVP award, making history as the youngest MVP in NBA history. This was the pinnacle of his 16-year career.
“You believed in me through the highs and lows, my constant when everything else seemed uncertain,” Rose posted on Instagram on Thursday in a letter to the game.
Rose represented the Bulls as the league's rookie of the year in 2008–09, went on to win the MVP award two seasons later, and was selected to the All-Star team in three of his first four seasons. He had to miss nearly two entire seasons due to a serious knee injury sustained during the 2012 playoffs. He thought about giving up the game multiple times, but he always managed to return to the court.
In addition to the Bulls, he would play for Detroit, New York, Cleveland, Minnesota, and Memphis. After spending his lone collegiate basketball season in the place he called home, he played with the Grizzlies last season.
Last season, Rose participated in 24 games with the Grizzlies and gave a lengthy speech about what it meant to him to be back in Memphis.
“It’s all full circle,” Rose said in April. “Coming back here, having my family here, my wife’s family is from here, being back in this arena, having some of the people that came to my college games actually come to my professional games here, it’s all love.”
The kid from Englewood turned into a Chicago legend. pic.twitter.com/7242npXkRU — Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) September 26, 2024
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