1. It was a different Mother’s Day for ESPN’s Jalen Rose this year.
Rose lost his mom, Jeanne, this past February to cancer. Sunday’s NBA Countdown paid tribute to the cohost’s mother with a video package that detailed how she came up with the name Jalen and how it became a popular name thanks to her NBA star son.
Following the video, Rose discussed what his mom meant to him, but he quickly broke down in tears after explaining that this was his first Mother’s Day without his mother and grandmother.
Maria Taylor comforted Rose in a touching moment while Adrian Wojnarowski brought up how Rose honored his mother last week by helping people in his hometown of Detroit get vaccinated.