lol @ the hate Derrick Rose gets from the media
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The reaching this idiot does is astounding.Derrick Rose is no role model
By Mark Yost
December 29, 2011
The Beatification of Derrick Rose was completed last week at Northbrook Court. The 23-year-old NBA MVP, who just signed a five-year, $94.8 million contract extension with his hometown Bulls, was mobbed by an estimated 8,000 fans who showed up at the mall to see him and his teammates. Extra police were called in for crowd control. Northbrook firefighters on scene were propositioned by frantic girls who said they would do unmentionable things if they could just touch the hem of Rose's jacket. And, of course, the local news media have added to the Cult of Rose, who has yet to lead his team to an NBA title, by comparing him to Michael Jordan, who won six.
But if you look beyond the incessant media hype and the sold-out United Center, the truth is that Rose should not be a role model for Chicago kids, especially those in the economically challenged neighborhoods from whence he came. The reasons are many.
First is the false promise that many of these kids can grow up to be just like Rose. It is simply a fairy tale. Of all the kids in America who play high school basketball, about 3 percent end up getting college scholarships. Of that sliver, about 2 percent ever have a meaningful NBA career. Those are the facts — for baseball, basketball and football. But every day, parents, coaches and recruiters tell kids that if they work hard at their sport, they, too, can be Derrick Rose. For the vast majority of them, that's simply never going to happen.
Furthermore, these kids are often told to sacrifice academics for the sake of athletics. Think about that: They're told to give up on the one thing that can get them out of the inner city or off the farm and instead told to focus on a million-to-one long shot. It makes for a great Hollywood script, but in real life these stories often end tragically. Most of the kids who make it to a major college or university to play football or basketball end up after four years with about 60 credit hours in cake courses taught by departments sympathetic to the mission of the athletic department, which is to win games, sell tickets and T-shirts, but not graduate kids.
Of course, Rose probably never worried about graduating. That's because he was one of the so-called one-and-done kids. They're the athletes that nearly every big-time college basketball program knows will be there for only one year to work on their jump shot, hone their interviewing skills and qualify for the NBA draft.
And let's not gloss over the one year that Rose spent at the University of Memphis. According to the NCAA, he cheated on his college entrance exams. The theory is that he had someone else take them for him. The NCAA could never prove it, but there was enough evidence for the NCAA to demand that Memphis vacate the entire season that Rose was there.
And what was Rose's punishment for allegedly falsifying records and cheating his teammates? He landed an initial $5 million contract with the Bulls and became the toast of his hometown, thanks in large part to a sports-media culture that continues to celebrate his ascent, barely acknowledging the Memphis scandal and instead hyping the false legend of Derrick Rose.
Chicago is a great town with a lot of talented people. Among them is a president of the United States who is a huge basketball fan and knows the challenges faced by kids who grow up in poor homes. It would be great if he went to these disadvantaged neighborhoods and told kids to aspire to be professors at the University of Chicago, lawyers or community organizers. But President Barack Obama — and anyone else who cares about children — should not be telling them to be like Derrick Rose. They can do better.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-perspec-1229-rose-20111229,0,5657899.story
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WTF is this ? ....people like that reporter are the ? of the earth. Only way he can survive is by making ACCUSATIONS like these that are so PREPOSTEROUS that it would make Bill O'reillys arguments even seem coherent.
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whitlock type article right there
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Crazy.......
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i'm honestly disgusted
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There were good points made within the article but the overall place he took it and where it came from was disgusting. Maybe he was trying to gain national attention and put his self on the map but the article ironically said a whole lot by saying nothingTommy bilfiger wrote: »Overall the media be kissin rose's ass this is an isolated article wit a couple valid points
and this
i mean dude is the current MVP, -
out of all the athletes he could of chose.....
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that's the media for you.
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T/S must not be a sports fanatic
if you read all outlets of sports , you would know that in da NBA.....Rose and Durant are the most LOVED!!!!!!!
NO-sign on this thread, this is just one article. media hate is when you can go to espn, foxsports, yahoo, cbssports, si.com, etc and catch it from all angles......like Floyd or like Kobe from 04-06 or like LeBron last year or like Tiger these last 2 years -
T/S must not be a sports fanatic
if you read all outlets of sports , you would know that in da NBA.....Rose and Durant are the most LOVED!!!!!!!
NO-sign on this thread, this is just one article. media hate is when you can go to espn, foxsports, yahoo, cbssports, si.com, etc and catch it from all angles......like Floyd or like Kobe from 04-06 or like LeBron last year or like Tiger these last 2 years
I'm from Chicago. This article is from the Chicago Tribune. 2+2 bruh -
its over: 2012! wrote: »Remember now in this new post-2005 NBA ? , Steve Nash showed us in '05&'06, and then Dirk a few years;
MVP is not a measure of skill/impact4success, anymore, but a measure of popularity...
FOH ? Steve Nash was balling both them years. He shoulda won it three years in a row since the third year his stats went up from the previous two seasons -
Tommy bilfiger wrote: »Overall the media be kissin rose's ass this is an isolated article wit a couple valid points
Agree people are ain't Lebron and all the stars that don't stay in one place so the NBA are pushing the younger stars now like Griffin, Durant, Rose. -
its over: 2012! wrote: »Yep. That's why one of those years Kobe's output, dwarfed Nash's, and the other year SMarion completed a season-long feat never ever before accomplished in league history as only '92 MVP David Robinson is the only player to come close to what SMarion did, the year you crakkkkas gave Nash MARION's MVP award
Ummm half a mill for bail cuz I'm African. -
I'm not a Derrick Rose fan? But this article is stupid
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? is a rolemodel he got out of the hood and still showing the hood love. Hey I seen talents like D-Rose on these southside streets waste there talents away Gangbanging or doing other stupid ? .
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He just needed some ? to right about.Rose is a humble dude he's not here doing dumb ? .? chicago tribune for printing this ? a ? who ever wrote the story
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D-Rose showed why he was MVP last night. That young boy is nasty and I'm not even a Bulls fan!!!!!
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rap doctor wrote: »There were good points made within the article but the overall place he took it and where it came from was disgusting. Maybe he was trying to gain national attention and put his self on the map but the article ironically said a whole lot by saying nothing
and this
i mean dude is the current MVP,
Pretty much what I was thinking. He had a great point but he tried to slander the guys name for an accusation that they really couldn't prove. The beauty of that article in my mind is....... It shows how a lot of these ? 's really think. I mean at least he is being honest with his hate of the young guy and guys that have came and will come after him. Let's be honest there is a lot of resentment towards these athletes and especially black athletes who are making all this money and he is showing that side of the coin -
soul rattler wrote: »The reaching this idiot does is astounding.
bruh...this is not hating. its the truth...
young black kids (boys) dont aspire to be anything but athletes and rappers...and that needs to change....academics need to be pushed...
theres only what 400 or something jobs in the nba...and you have a generation of black boys trying to get them...smh...? gotta stop