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
The thing about professional sports is anything can happen. Obviously, that vote of confidence along with it being after the trade deadline, means we intend on staying with the guys we got. I think we have 20-plus games remaining, let's try to finish them strong and we'll see what happens from here on out.
I'd be lying to say it doesn't add to it to be going to New York. Every player, when they step into the Garden, there's a different bounce to that arena, a different atmosphere, a different feeling being in New York ... I'm definitely going to be a little bit nervous and excited about playing my first game there.
What can you say about the Raptors' all-time guy in games played? We joke with him about: 'Perseverance. Persistence. Passion. Pride . . . ' and Peterson.
Winning is the cure all. Sometimes when you're losing things aren't as bad as they seem. Sometimes when you're winning things are not as good. It's only one game but hopefully it's something we can build on.
It probably wasn't the prettiest game you'll see but at least we gave the effort.
It's pretty strange for us to have a big-time blowout like that. When we have a record like we have overall, you don't see too many games like that.
Yeah, I can play a little bit. Somebody put a memo on my locker, saying I'll be 33 this month, so i figure I had to step my game up.
When you're not winning games ... it's about how you're not getting it done. To the winner goes the spoils, and since we're not getting it done at a high level, it's always going to be about sideshows and distractions.
They played this game like it was their championship game, and rightfully so. Those guys are hungry for NBA jobs.
Somebody put a memo in my locker, saying I was turning 33 this month, so I figured I had to step my game up.
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.
We got some good looks at some shots, but they just didn't go down. Had they, we would have put some pressure on their team.
I've never said that I wanted to play for another team. I'm not saying that now,
Fatigue will make a coward of all of us and I'm not going to let that be an excuse. The bottom line is they played better than us for four quarters.