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They don’t make MVPs in Chicago like they used to.
Or when do you remember seeing Michael Jordan miss two foul shots in the closing seconds of a game with a chance to win?
The answer, of course, was that it never happened. Certainly, not in any of the days when Jordan was winning five MVPs.
But Derrick Rose was practically in tears in the Bulls’ locker room Sunday night after likely costing his team a victory with two blown foul shots with 22.7 seconds to play. The misses ruined an otherwise dominant day in a 97-93 loss to the Heat.
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