The Chicago Bulls are trying to get more players recovered from injury as they prepare for their next game.
Check out the latest buzz below.
Rose Did Note Re-Injure Himself
Derrick Rose played just 10 minutes on Tuesday night but he and coach Tom Thibodeau say that he wasn’t reinjured.
“It wasn’t nothing like I’m limping or I pulled it or anything, it wasn’t any of that,” Rose told ESPN.
“It was just that I wasn’t moving the way I wanted to while I was on the floor. So why push through it when I wasn’t able to affect the game the way I wanted to? I came in here and talked to (Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau) and we both agreed on just sitting out.”
“They'll re-examine him but there was really nothing that happened other than I didn’t want to take any chances with him,” Thibodeau added.
“The way the game was going, the way we were going, I just felt at that point I wanted to go a different way. He didn’t re-injure himself or anything like that.”
Rose has already missed eight of the Bulls’ 15 games this season, and ESPN’s Nick Friedell noted that he has not started and finished two consecutive games yet this season.
On the other hand, ESPN analyst Stephen Smith believes Rose is lying.
“I watched the video and I watched how he jumped up and how he’s feeling, I don’t think it’s just a phsycological thing. I think Derrick Rose is lying. I think other people within the Bulls organization are lying. I think that there’s something that’s going on. It’s not a tweak here or there.”
Smith said that Rose shouldn’t of played over the summer for USA Basketball.
Rose, meanwhile, says that he wants to try to play on Friday. “I’m just trying to be smart. Back-to-back … got fatigued and I didn’t want to take any steps back. So take these couple of days off, head to Boston, give it a go in Boston,” he told the Chicago Tribune. Joakim Noah is still day-to-day and could play.
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