There Must Be More To Derrick Rose Than What We Re Getting

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• Do Chicago’s sports reporters really care about Derrick Rose?

A couple of seasons ago, the Tribune assigned two reporters to chronicle every basket, sneeze, and backfire of the team bus as the Simeon varsity pursued its fourth straight Illinois state basketball championship. Jabari Parker was the star of that team, and Derrick Rose, who’d led Simeon to three two championships a few years earlier, was the standard of excellence. The Tribune called its coverage “Simeon All Access,” and no story angle was missed.

“We’re hoping to get into the subject in the future,” the reporter wrote back. Maybe I missed it.

“What people wanted to hear,” wrote Rick Telander in the Sun-Times, “is: ‘Four weeks. Then I’m full-tilt boogie!’ Or five weeks, six weeks, whatever. Something definitive, fiery, passionate.”