Originally Posted by
greybeard
It's unfortunate, this injury to Derick Rose, this torn ACL. Unfortunate, but not surprising, though young men like Rose block it all out. Injuries pile up, and all they can ask, all that we will ask, is when are they coming back. Rose, I'd like to believe, is seeing the costs of his at risk style of play from a different perspective now. After all, he knows to a certainty that his gift to dazzle is of no use to him now, and had has to have seriuos doubts that it ever will. Oh, he'll return to play, when the doctors pronounce him ready, without a single word about moderating his style of play. As for those with the gold who call the shots, and the GMs and coaches who carry them out, what's the chance that they give this guy's longterm well-being even a moment's thought. The talking heads who once played know first-hand what Rose is looking at, but stand silent as this madness yet again plays itself out.
This story is an old one, and everybody knows it: