Before anyone takes my head off for comparing Derrick Rose to the best player who ever lived, Michael Jordan, give me a chance to tell you why.
They're a lot more alike than you think, and it's not because they both played for the Chicago Bulls.
Remember Michael Jordan's Hall of Fame induction speech, where he dissed everyone from the high school coach who cut him, to the Hall of Famers who iced him out in his first All-Star game in 1985?
He even tweaked his beloved coach at North Carolina, Dean Smith, for telling Sports Illustrated to keep him off the cover as a freshman, while including the other four starters.
Jordan never forgot anyone dissing him, whether real or imagined, and payback was a bitch.
Is it any wonder he won six NBA championships with what he used to motivate him?
It seems like a generation later, Derrick Rose is using similar means to an end.
After beating the Toronto Raptors Saturday night, Rose told K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune that the Bulls owed them for a road loss in February, where the Raptors were laughing on the bench late in the game.
That's not t ...
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Chicago Bulls Now and Then: Is Derrick Rose the New Michael Jordan?
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