Derrick Rose is a talented professional basketball player whose personal accolades include an Olympic gold medal, Rookie of the Year trophy, and NBA Most Valuable Player award, which he won in 2011 at the age of 22, making him the youngest player to ever win the award.
Rose, whose career has been plagued by injury since his early years in the league, has played for teams like the Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers. He is currently signed to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
the biography
Rose was born Derrick Martell Rose to a single mother, Brenda Rose, on October 4, 1988 in Chicago, Illinois where he was raised. He has three older brothers. Dwayne, Reggie and Allan, who were all good basketball players, but never made it to the league. The brothers maintained a very close relationship and played a fatherly role to their younger brother, who showed the likelihood of being an excellent schoolboy player.
Derrick Rose attended Simeon Career Academy when he became one of the most talked about high school basketball players. In 2007, his senior year in high school, Rose led his school to a second state title and was named Illinois Basketball among other honors.
After high school, Rose had a host of offers from a number of schools, including the University of Illinois. He, however, chose to attend the University of Memphis for his long history of sending players to the NBA. He played just one year in college basketball, averaging 14.9 points, 4.7 assists and 4.5 rebounds per game in the regular season, before reaching the NCAA Championship Finals where his team lost to Kansas.
The promising baller after declared himself available for the 2008 NBA draft and was drafted by the Chicago Bulls with the first overall pick. He drew comparisons to former big bull Michael Jordan, who won different monthly rookie awards, earning him rookie of the year averaging 16.8 points, 6.3 assists decisive and 3.9 rebounds per game this season, which put the team back in the playoffs..
In his second season, Rose was named an All-Star, and was hugely popular across the league as he had the league’s best-selling fourth jersey. His stock continued to rise as he became a well-rounded player. After a 25 ppg season in 2010-11, he was named Most Valuable Player. The following year, he led his team to first place in the Eastern Conference before suffering an injury in Game 1 of the 2012 playoffs. Rose tore up his access control list and then missed the remaining playoff games as well as the entire 2012–13 season, beginning his long battle with injury.
Rose returned in October of the 2013-14 season but was injured again a month later when he tore the meniscus in his right knee. He missed the rest of the season and returned in October 2015 before being sidelined again with another knee injury.
Family – wife or girlfriend, son
Derrick Rose is rumored to be married to his longtime girlfriend, Alaina Anderson, who works as a model. The pair got engaged in 2018 before they were rumored to part ways when Rose took time off from the 2017-18 basketball season to contemplate her NBA career. Rose and Anderson welcomed their first child in April 2018, a daughter named Layla.
Rose has a son called Derrick Rose Jr., born in October 2012 from his previous relationship with stylist and designer Meika Reese who founded Rich Girl Candy.
Derrick Rose net worth
The former NBA Most Valuable Player is said to have an estimated net worth of $85 million which he earned through league salaries and contracts, but mostly through endorsement deals.
Derrick Rose is currently earning the minimum required salary of $2.1 million per year after already earning around $21 million per year during his time with the Knicks. In 2012, he signed a contract with Adidas which will allow him to pay 10 million dollars a year for 14 years. In the end, the Adidas operation could amount to 185 million dollars.
Is he dead?
Derrick Rose is very much alive as he is currently preparing to start another grueling NBA season. The veteran guard was rumored to have been killed in October 2016 when a Los Angeles police detective involved in a case against him was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Height, weight and other facts
Birth name: Derrick Martell Rose
Date of birth: October 4, 1988
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois
Occupation : Professional basketball player
Height: 6 feet 3 inches
Weight: 86 kg (190 lbs)
Zodiac sign: Libra