Had anyone suggested in 2011 that Rose would spend the prime of his career bouncing from team to team, mostly backing up a series of non-All-Star teammates in a search for minutes, victories and fulfillment, it would have been hard to believe.

You’ve got to adjust, and he’s adjusted incredibly well.” It’s the hardest part of the game, honestly. “Man, that’s so hard to go through as an athlete,” Thompson said. He’s back now but different, in ways that only athletes who have gone through this particular ringer can know.

Like Rose, Thompson was forced to stare into basketball’s abyss by devastating injuries: first a torn anterior cruciate ligament, then a ruptured Achilles tendon. “Derrick at 34, it’s incredible,” Golden State’s Klay Thompson said Tuesday night in Milwaukee, icing his knees and feeling more connected to Rose these days than he did a few years ago. But it’s still going, which might be the most remarkable thing of all. Rose’s career hasn’t gone the way he, Chicago fans or anyone else imagined based on his precocious, explosive start. Now he’s 34, five stops removed, a backup guard with the New York Knicks and a living, breathing reflection on the passage of time. He was 27 when he last suited up for the Bulls. 1 in 2008, the hometown hope, the youngest Most Valuable Player in NBA history and the face and future of their franchise was 22 when he won that award. The guy who had been the team’s pick at No. CHICAGO - The NBA’s 2022-23 schedule has Derrick Rose playing consecutive games at United Center in Chicago for the first time since, well, since he was with the Bulls so many years ago.

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