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A few weeks ago, my Sun-Times comrade, Rick Telander, brought up a topic that most Bulls fans would prefer to see buried with radioactive waste: What if Derrick Rose gets hurt and misses significant time?
Let’s take it a painful step further into the declarative.
Derrick Rose will get hurt and miss significant time.
That’s not doom-and-gloom stuff. It’s not worst-case scenario stuff. You’ve seen him play. You’ve seen how he drives to the basket like a horse that’s finally escaped its overturned trailer.
You tell me: Is this guy not a three-month injury waiting to happen? A broken bone? A torn ligament? Altitude sickness from jumping so...
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