Derrick Rose of the New York Knicks goes to the basket against the Charlotte Hornets at Madison Square Garden on April 20, 2021. Credit: Getty Images/Sarah Stier
Monday marked 10 years to the day that Derrick Rose was named the Most Valuable Player in the NBA, becoming the youngest player in NBA history to earn the honor at just 22 years old.
With the medical textbook of injuries that have befallen him since, robbing him of some of the jaw-dropping athleticism he arrived in the league with, and even an odd one-season stopover in New York, that hardly inspired faith that on the 10-year anniversary he would be doing what he did Sunday.