Is the writing on the wall for a Derrick Rose breakup with Bulls?

The fairy tale has become a nightmare and eventually one of these sides, if not both, have to wake up.

Derrick Rose became a national star at Simeon Career Academy in Chicago, just a couple years before the Chicago Bulls took him with the No. 1 overall pick. Few players get to be the star of their hometown team, let alone be the No. 1 pick tasked with bringing championships back to the town Michael Jordan ruled. After just a 1.9 percent chance of landing the top pick in the lottery, the Bulls picked Rose over Michael Beasley and started building the team around him.

It was all headed in the right direction with Rose and the Bulls blossoming under coach Tom Thibodeau. Rose won the MVP in the 2010-11 season and Chicago made it to the conference finals before LeBron James ended their season. That was the last time this story had a positive tone. Since then, we've seen multiple surgeries, season-ending injuries, and decently tone-deaf comments by Rose that have at least seemed to strain the relationship between he and the organization.

To be fair, this seems to be more opinion than actual reporting, but the rumblings are there outside of what Windhorst is saying. For so long, it seems like both sides have been waiting for Act 3 in this story to be one of great triumph. Rose's body would stop failing him and he'd be able to regain the MVP form that made him so special for that city and organization. At a certain point, you have to recognize that turn isn't going to happen and then you have to answer the questions of whether, and when, it's time to move on.


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