There are players who become legends because they played like a Hall of Famer for a team and a city. There are players who become legends and are forever associated with the city where they were born.<\/p>\n
There are very few who are both. Derrick Rose is that in Chicago, and Saturday night, his No. 1 jersey was retired, hung in the rafters of the United Center.<\/p>\n
First, there was this tribute video, narrated by Scottie Pippen.<\/p>\n
Next came a series of speeches about Rose from former teammates, as well as coach Tom Thibodeau.<\/p>\n
Then Rose himself gave an emotional, thoughtful speech that included some words to his kids.<\/p>\n
In his first four seasons with the Bulls, Rose won MVP, Rookie of the Year, was a three-time All-Star, and led the Bulls to the Eastern Conference finals, as far as the franchise has ever gotten since Michael Jordan retired (the first time).<\/p>\n
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It ended up being a game Rose could love, a hard-fought game against the Celtics that came down to the wire, when Kevin Huerter hit the game-winner.<\/p>\n
It was a great night at the United Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are players who become legends because they played like a Hall of Famer for a team and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,46,919,329,3824,1025,4103,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-559468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-celtics","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-chicagobulls","14":"tag-derrick-rose","15":"tag-kevin-huerter","16":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115954577901716040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}