Friday, March 8th, 2013 at 1:30 pm  |  168 responses

Derrick Rose Reportedly Cleared to Play By Doctors But He’s Not Ready


It has been a long, frustrating slog through rehab ever since Derrick Rose underwent left knee surgery almost 10 months ago. The Chicago Bulls say that their superstar point guard is day-to-day, and according to ESPN, Rose’s doctor has given him the green light to play in an NBA game again. Derrick is just not mentally prepared to do so at the moment: “Derrick Rose’s doctor has cleared the Chicago Bulls’ star to play, a team source said, but his long-awaited return to the lineup won’t occur until he can confidently dunk off his left foot, Rose has told the team. Rose, who had surgery to repair a tear to the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on May 12, has been videotaped dunking off each foot, but more casually than he would during a game. A source said that although he has been practicing and scrimmaging hard, he told the Bulls that until he feels ‘in his mind’ he can confidently dunk off his left foot in a game situation, he is not 100 percent mentally ready to return to competition. The team is not pressuring Rose, the source said, but the Bulls are confident he will return this season and are still hoping for a mid-March return, which would mark 10 months after his surgery. The Bulls play at Golden State on March 15. The source said the team has been assured by Rose’s doctor that there is no more chance of the former MVP getting injured upon his return than anyone else and that the doctor told the Bulls that physically ‘he can play now.’ Rose is now dealing with the psychological side of trusting his body.”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Gilbert/100001749589586 Mike Gilbert

    unfortunately I think you are right

  • z

    Pposse’s seriously even more of a homer than The Seed.Bias mixed with pride can lead to some embarrassingly stupid statements. Pposse is living proof

  • Drig

    Are most Bulls fans like pposse? If so, I’m confounded about why the Lakers have the worst rep among the fans as far as irrational thinking is concerned……….

    Anyways, the Bulls need to make some moves and let Rose rest for the entire year. There’s nothing to be gained by playing him this year. Absolutely nothing.

  • Mac

    Durant is only a scorer? He has 3 triple double games this year.

    4 years difference is way younger?

    Rose simply does not control the game on the defensive side of the ball the way Lebron does. Rose has never averaged more than 1 steal per game and 4.1 rebounds per game.

    You claim Rose is the same as Lebron? Lebron is averaging more assists, points, rebounds, steals, points and block per game this season then Rose’s career high season averages in any of those categories. (all while shooting 7% higher than Rose has ever shot for a season)

    The idea that Rose is on Lebron’s level is laughable.

    In short: I disagree and I don’t think it is plain or stupid to do so.

  • pposse

    yeah cause d rose be being better than CP is so far fetched, like 8 gms didnt say that at the beginning of this season, soo biased, i get it Z. its funny how some of you children have this gang/bully mentality. If you do not have the ability to add to the conversation then stay back loser. Your living proof that this world is full of sheep, say something meaningful or don’t say anything at all.

  • phil

    Didn’t stephen a smith question lin’s heart because he was 85%, what’s that then say about rose who has been medically cleared to play??? I would like to hear treat rose the same way but we all know that’s not gonna happen!!!

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    The West is a much tougher conference. If you knew anything at all about the NBA, you’d know that. Chris Paul’s Hornets lost to Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and the Lakers, Carmelo Anthony and the deep Nuggets, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and the Spurs. There’s no shame in losing to those teams when you’re Chris Paul and the next best player on your team is David West (no disrespect but he’s not exactly a Hall of Fame caliber player). So the fact that those series were even competitive is because of CP3. Rose’s Bulls only had to go through the Pacers, Hawks and they lost to the Heat. Neither the Pacers or Hawks had a superstar player. Granger and Joe Johnson are good players. Not great at all. So compare the teams they had to go through. Easy to see that Chris has had a tougher road to a championship up until this point. Your knowledge is nonexistent. So it’s really nothing for me to test.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    You sound like a child, really. Complete embarrassment to any good Bulls/Rose fan.

  • pposse

    who are you? your a sheep, no wolf in you at all. how about u tell me why 8 gms think d rose is the best pg in the league? stick to facts dummy. My opinions are backed by actual people who get paid millions to make real life nba decisions, meanwhile your opinions about me gets backed by sheep like yourself. I don’t discredit cp3, but i put enought pts in my argument as to why cp is not the player d rose is. If you want to think otherwise then thats on u, leave the name calling out of it, that makes u sound foolish. You thought u was talkin to a “ball boy” but your slowly but surely realizing your talkn to a grown man.

  • pposse

    right cause u named what 3 Western Conference teams and that makes them deep?!

    Orlando, Boston, Cleveland same amount of worthy teams that were able to win championships in that time period.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    Cleveland was a deep team to you? Compared to those Nuggets, Spurs and Lakers teams? Hilarious. Pure foolishness from you.

  • pposse

    why dont u tell me how many times melo took that o so “deep” nuggets team outta the first round?

    I can do this all day .. cause i know what i am talking about youngster

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    A grown man who sounds like a little boy and is a fanboy. Rose fanboy. Bulls fanboy. That’s you. CP3 is widely regarded as the best PG in basketball by most NBA analysts. Who are you listening to who say that Chris Paul isn’t the player Rose is? You have no points at all. You didn’t even know that Rose wasn’t on the 08 Olympic team. That’s not just a mistake, that’s a sign of someone who has absolutely no clue at all about what they’re talking about. Who in the world really thinks that LeBron’s Cavs teams were deep compared to the Spurs, Nuggets, and Lakers from a few years ago? How can you be a Rose fan and not know that he wasn’t on that team? How can you be a basketball fan supposedly but not know that Chris Paul was on that team?

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    You can be an idiot all day? I’m well aware because you’ve been showing it. What Melo did or didn’t do with what he had means nothing here. The fact is that there was a lot of talent on those teams. More talent than LeBron’s Cavs. Any casual fan knows that the Western Conference is tougher than the Eastern Conference. Which is why most Eastern Conference playoff teams wouldn’t make it in the West. You’re sitting here trying to say that what Chris Paul had to go through means nothing compared to the teams the Bulls have to go through. Outside of the Heat, none of the Eastern Conference teams would beat any of the top 5 teams in the West in a series. You know nothing about basketball. At all.

  • pposse

    too much shoulda woulda coulda talk with you, the magic took the lakers to 6, the celtics won and took the lakers to 7. Really you sound ridiculous and bias right now. The cavs from 08-10 matched up well agains the lakers or spurs, im not going to say if they could have won or not, cause i know i cant prove it one way or the other, just like your young statements.

  • pposse

    melos talented teams lost to everyone but the hornets, but i should give the hornets a break for not beating them bc cp3 is on the team lol now thats stupid. cp3 may very well be the youngsest superstar performer in the playoffs one notch below carmello thats the inconvenient truth. One you cp nut huggers can’t handle. IF the clippers make it to the finals, and IF they get a home series i will retract that last statement, until then out of all the superstars there were in the past carmello and cp has accomplished the least by a wiide margin (in the playoffs).

  • pposse

    really this comin from the guy who doesnt remember when chris paul lost in 4 games to the spurs last year? dropped somethin like 11 ppg.

    I admitted i was mistaken, what about u? do u even remember that from last year? or do u stand by them takking the spurs to 7?

  • pposse

    **correction the magic lost in 5, but cortney lee did miss a tip in at the buzzer (pt blank layup) that right there was a series changer.

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