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What most everybody came for Thursday was to see whether Rose was whole, and if he wasn't whole, whether his ankle was going to get it over with and simply fall off. And if it did, would it cause a chain-reaction accident with Luol Deng's dearly departed leg?

Two minutes into the game, Rose soared to block Richard Jefferson's fast-break layup attempt, and somewhere in the roar of the United Center crowd was a sigh of relief. The kid was OK. Before the...