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Derrick Rose: “What makes this year different is I have a lot more options”

WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK — Derrick Rose knows he can’t be Kobe Bryant. The newly acquired Knicks guard has a game that falls short of the soon-to-be first ballot Hall of Famer.

But at the New York Knicks Media Day in White Plains, N.Y., Rose used Bryant as an example of how he’d like to re-model his game following several devastating leg injuries over the past few seasons.

“I think I play a raw way of basketball, so my game has always been mid-range, one dribble, two dribbles. I feel like I have a great backboard shot, like if I get to a certain area, I’m able to be more efficient,” Rose said.