You know with limited minutes, this guy has done a good job and making 5mil a year playing on good teams.
DRose Has years on his addidas contract that totals 185mil. He is not hurting at all!! Livingston would be a good role model for someone who made peace with a lower trajectory.
Best thing for rose is to accept a lessor role and develop into a complimentary type player. All things considered, its something that has been seen in his career with other players.
Rose has said things that depicted him being an ego driven max type player whose stature is all too important. There are things about DRose that don't add up, and one of them is nobody says he is a bad guy. There was a lot of things I did not like this season: His civil trial was a success but it cost a lot of training camp and OUR CULTURE DEMANDS PLAYERS LEARN THE SYSTEM. He has stated he does not like the system but I'll get back to that in a second. He went AWOL once.
So what changed? We did not trade him, and he kind of was a good teammate the rest of the way. Frustrated by his own inability to perform in the system. His anger at himself, or Jeff, which seems to be in the heat of the moment kind of thing.
So why bring him back? Not sure I want to, but it warrants discussion because it might happen. The arrogant Drose said he wants to be back. He wants to redeem himself. Ok, how? Does he give himself to the system? If he wants to play for GSW or Spurs like any winning team, he'd have to fit into that system. He can be a pioneer in NY by doing this. At some point if the knicks are to succeed, players need to buy in and come. Usually its AFTER a bit of success, but it has to start somewhere with some one. Ok, say he does? Does he start? No, he is off the bench and he is paid like Livingston did for a few years at reasonable two year contracts. Upside? Big for knicks and for him, he can fulfill his addidas contract to a lessor extend and do so in a big market. With dignity. Downside? He is an injured contract that does not kill our cap. 5-7mil a year does not kill a team.
Where else does he go? Milwaukee off the bench? Start for the Clippers if CP3 leaves? In any event he must fit into another system and should not be the same player he was in the past as an elite creator. Now he must reinvent his game. Why not do it in NY? He can start elsewhere, but can he hold up? I doubt anyone pays him starter money.
Rose almost made it this year. In my mind the AWOL was a meltdown from pressure living up to his status as MVP and getting back to where he was in 2012. Bad act but not chronic and he owned up to it. It matters. Then the knee injury. For all we know this was Roses last chance to demonstrate his body could hold up. For all we know there might have been those who have been telling him this and he need to think about "Plan B" and be happy. He has wealth and has an MVP award!! Life does not always go as we'd like it to and maybe he will grow up a bit and carve out a different set of expectations. He has all the money of a great career but can he adjust to be a happy fella?
Shaun Livingston out of high school was signed up to play at duke but instead was the 4th overall pick by the clippers. An 18 year old kid fulfilling the dream with one hundred plus million career in front of him! As bad Clipper karma would have it, he had that horrific injury and had to crawl his way back to the league. He has still made millions of dollars still and had a nice career. Not quite the payout he might have envisioned. Like Jason Williams of duke with his motorcycle accident, and Bobby Hurley's car accident (Being a duke guard has its hazards!) life goes on and one must adjust the definition of success or face misery of underachievement.
Williams has carved out a nice TV career and Hurley is a Div 1 NCAA coach!! They are successful people still.
For Rose, he still has a chance to carve out good career. The Trajectory of a 22 year old MVP with a billion dollar potential payday is now not possible. But even after all said and done if he has been reasonable with is money he is still super wealthy, forever an MVP NBA player, and has the opportunity to rewrite his post career narrative. He has choices. New york loves a comeback story.
