Chicago Bulls fans have been traumatized seeing their star player go down with a season ending injury on more than one occasion. Now they get worried anytime Rose looks like he could have hurt himself. Last night during the Bulls game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, they had another scare.
Late in the second quarter of Chicago’s overtime loss to the Cavaliers on Friday, Derrick Rose came down awkwardly and appeared to roll his ankle, causing him to hobble away as play continued down to the other end of the floor.
Rose came back and tried to play in the third, but was unable to use any of his signature explosiveness to get to the basket. He sat out the fourth quarter and overtime session, but was in good spirits afterward, as the injury wasn’t believed to be all that serious.
“I just sprained my ankle and had to sit out,’’ Rose said. “I’m walking around, so everyone can breathe. I hurt it in the first half, tried to give it a go in the second half, but it kind of limited me a little bit, shooting jump shots and wasn’t getting the bounce I wanted.’’
