Jalen Rose
Jalen Rose
Jalen Anthony Roseis an American retired professional basketball player and current sports analyst with ESPN. In college, he was a member of the University of Michigan Wolverines' "Fab Five"that reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as both freshmen and sophomores. Rose played in the NBA for six teams, most notably alongside Reggie Miller on the Indiana Pacers teams that made three consecutive Eastern Conference finals, including the 2000 NBA Finals. Rose was primarily a...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth30 January 1973
CityDetroit, MI
Home is supposed to be where you're most comfortable. A number of guys are not comfortable playing here right now. You have to be emotionally tough to play here.
Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.
I really like Rafer Alston. We get along great. We have a lot of fun times together that I can’t share with you guys.
Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career.
I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job.
When you're not winning it's about how you're not getting it done.
Name 12 players better than me.
I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.
For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms.
There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.
I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter.
An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.
We don't know what's going to happen this summer or who's going to be here next year. We have no control over any of that. So, we're going to play our [22 remaining] games and do the best we can and show up for the New York Knick fans. That's the most important thing.
I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say,