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
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,
Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.
Nobody wants to be a bottom feeder and deal with the reality that you have one of the worst records, if not the worst record, in the league. Obviously, we have to turn that around and turn it around fast. I feel like if we ever show up in the same place at the same time we can make some noise in this league.
You never get what you deserve; only what you have the leverage to negotiate.
I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.
The guys are doing what they can to help us win ball games and they need me to step up and play the way I'm capable of playing.
You've got to dig down on the post when someone has three or four dribbles and just collapse against the ball. When you don't do that, you allow teams to get into a rhythm even if they're not making shots.
The good lord was looking down on me because I had missed X amount of my previous shots. I thought about taking the (3-point shot), but when you're 0-for-5, you try to get a better look.