The NBA season tips off tomorrow night with 3 games and one of the most anticipated ones will be the Heat vs. Bulls. Derrick Rose will be playing in his first regular season game since the 2012 playoffs & LeBron James is planning on doing something before the game. Check out what he had to say about it…
Via ESPN:
LeBron James says he will reach out to Derrick Rose to personally welcome him back following his yearlong layoff before the Miami Heat face the Chicago Bulls in Tuesday’s regular-season opener.
Asked about the prospects of facing Rose, James said after Sunday’s practice that it won’t be difficult to set aside his competitive nature to take a moment and appreciate how the Bulls’ star guard has handled his recovery from 2012 knee surgery that forced him to miss all of last season.
James said he especially admires Rose for not giving in to any outside pressure to return during last season’s playoff run. After upsetting the Heat in Miami with a Game 1 victory, the short-handed Bulls lost four straight to James and the Heat and were eliminated in the second round.
“I’m happy and thrilled that he’s back,” James said as the Heat prepared to open defense of their second straight NBA championship. “I’m happy with what he did last year, to be able to stand strong throughout everything, throughout all of the adversity of everybody criticizing him about what he should do. He did what was best for him.”
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