The Chicago Bulls have retired Derrick Rose’s No 1 jersey in an emotional ceremony after the 106-103 victory over the Boston Celtics on Saturday evening.
The Chicago native, who retired in 2024, is the fifth Bulls participant to have his shirt retired, after Jerry Sloan (No 4), Bob Love (No 10), Michael Jordan (No 23) and Scottie Pippen (No 33).
Rose, 37, performed eight seasons for the franchise after being chosen at No 1 the 2008 draft, named Rookie of the Yr in 2008-09 and making three All-Star groups.
In 2011, he turned the youngest MVP in NBA historical past, on the age of twenty-two years and 7 months.
LeBron, Curry pay tribute as followers flock to attend
Rose wiped tears from his eyes as former team-mates, together with Luol Deng, made opening remarks, whereas a video performed on the scoreboard included messages from LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
Rose spoke in entrance of a sold-out crowd, honouring household and colleagues as properly the supporters who had lined up exterior hours earlier than tip-off in chilly temperatures.
A black T-shirt with Rose’s identify and quantity on the again was draped on each seat within the area, whereas Bulls gamers wore the identical shirt for his or her pre-game warm-ups.
Rose mentioned: “It was about everyone that discovered methods to come back to my video games. That one way or the other, we had some kind of vibration that related. It’s no coincidence that each one this is happening, and the those that watched me play confirmed up right now.”
Rose appears on with members of the family throughout Saturday’s ceremony
‘Rose is certainly one of us, enjoying for town he loves’
Bulls president Michael Reinsdorf instructed ESPN final week: “We needed to honour Rose however we needed to take the time to really actually plan one thing actually, actually particular.
“I suppose we may have executed it final 12 months, however I really feel like that is the fitting method to do it. Give him time to arrange and provides us time to ramp as much as the massive day.”
Reinsdorf added on the evening: “Regardless that we did not win a championship, our followers did really love that period of Chicago Bulls basketball.
“Derrick, he is Chicago-born. He is certainly one of us. He was enjoying for town, town that he grew up in and that he liked and he cared a lot about.”
