Derrick Rose: While all this was happening, I watched my brother Greedy change. He was a neat freak—I’d go into his room, mess with the remote, and try to put it back exactly where he left it, but he’d always know I’d been in there. Then he started wearing the same snow outfit for a whole month. I’d ask him, ‘What’s wrong with you, bro? You’re changing.’ It all came from the conditions we were living in, the environment. And then, death. His best friend got killed. I remember the day it happened. He came into the crib crying, couldn’t even get up the stairs. My mom was helping him at the bottom when he fell into her arms. I sprinted out of the house, no socks on, ran to the block, and saw Esco on the ground. It was traumatizing. After that, the old Greedy I knew was gone. He was in survival mode, just trying to figure out life. He wasn’t even thinking that maybe his little brother could change things. I was seeing all this while growing up, peeping how things were. -via YouTube / January 23, 2025
Derrick Rose: ‘From my ACL injury all the way into my 15th year, I played through some kind of pain every year’
