Chicago Bulls: Derrick Rose gives fans something to cheer about
It took a visiting player to give Chicago Bulls fans something to cheer about.
The Chicago Bulls took another one on the chin last night, losing 119-94 to a 16-18 Minnesota Timberwolves team at home.
In fact, the Bulls’ fans have had very little to cheer about this season, as the team has only nine wins and sports the second-worst record in the entire league.
However, fans who took in the game last night at the United Center finally had something to cheer about other than the halftime performance.
No, this was actually basketball related! There is just one problem though. It had nothing to do with the Bulls’ performance. Rather, the one thing that’s has gotten the UC crowd the most excited this year came from a visiting player.
Granted, it feels different being that it was former Bulls star Derrick Rose but the fact remains that it was his performance that got the crowd going and not its hometown team.
But what a performance it was. It had fans not only reminiscing about days gone by but also had them ruminating over their own team’s futility.
This return to Chicago was special for D-Rose 🌹 pic.twitter.com/ffu6iPSots
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 27, 2018
It certainly couldn’t have made John Paxson and Gar Forman feel good hearing the hometown crowd serenading a former player with chants of “M-V-P, M-V-P, M-V-P.” Especially a former player who has very publicly taken the front office to task for the way it handled things when he was in Chicago.
In any event, Rose lit up the Bulls for a team-high 24 points on an extremely efficient 11-19 shooting. He also added three rebounds, eight assists, and two steals.
The performance and corresponding cheers from the crowd even drew a rye smile from Rose while at the free throw line.
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Officially, after the game, Rose told reporters that “I had to crack a smile a little bit. It made me reminisce about some of the old days . . . With the year that I’m having, it was very special to come in here and play.”
Unofficially, you have to wonder whether that smile was one of relief, knowing that he’s not a part of this dumpster fire of an organization. The smart money is on the latter.