Joakim Noah Explains Why Derrick Rose Means So Much To Chicago

In this clip, Joakim Noah talks about playing on The Chicago Bulls with prime Derrick Rose and what he meant to the city of Chicago.

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[RuckerEra]

I think Derrick Rose is one of the most universally loved players.

[danparish]

I remember when he got 50 with the twolves and nearly cried I was so happy for him

[oxfordbambooshootify]

At the height of his powers, Drose was unstoppable. His silent charisma was unmatched. He would terrorize the league and destroy your home team but you just couldn't hate the man

[rickDArula]

D Rose and Kobe Bryant got me into basketball. Christmas 2011 I was 15 watching the Bulls and Lakers to give basketball a try. And my hometown Bulls won on that D Rose floater. Been a fan since

[jm]

Rose going into the lane while wade was on him and lebron trying to chase him down for the block and rose still made the bucket between them was incredible

[yugiisama]

Derrick deserves everything he’s gotten in the league man, most NBA fans know this guys story & his struggles. I’m so glad that after all the injuries he managed to come back & still retain the love from the fans, i still have all the D-Rose kicks i wore in Middle School.

[samyakkalra]

I don’t want Derrick Rose to be ever forgotten in the world of Basketball

[ANDREmang]

You can tell Joakim really loved Derrick. They were legit brothers.

[slipperybeatz]

D Rose is a Chicago legend just like Michael Jordan and will be forever in our hearts in Chicago. He changed basketball culture in the city. I remember everyone wanted to play like D Rose when he won MVP growing up as a kid. Everyone had his jersey including myself. Chicago has always been a basketball city. Youngest MVP in NBA HISTORY! Chicago Native D Rose!

[sTalnaker]

After Jordan retired and then Kobe and Shaq split up, I kind of took a hiatus from watching basketball because my Pacers had to get rid of everyone post Malice at the Palice. D Rose was the dude that got me back into it. The way he moved in transition and when he floated, it didn’t look normal. People don’t realize how crazy he was. He had the Ja Morant type hangtime, Prime Westbrook Speed, and his shiftiness was better than anybody I had seen. Maybe AI but I thought D Rose took it to another level.

[mbuvito]

It was his rookie year, set record for points in a playoff debut with 36 against the Celtics. Long live DRose!

[tjtaylor]

I could listen to Joakin Noah speak hoop all day. He’s a gifted speaker

[Rogelio]

Only Chicagoan’s know what it was like during that “see red “ era of the Bulls. We had a great Team in that 2011 year . D rose, Deng, Kyle Korver, Carlos Boozer and Noah .. I miss that team . So much heart and Grit. A true Chicago style Basketball team 🥲

[codster]

Drose got me into basketball. "I wanna go higher." I remember watching all those highlight tapes. Have a few drose jerseys and a couple Bulls flat bills from the high school days. I loved him man.

[alejandroserrano]

Man Derrick Rose was one of those players that you really HAD to watch during that time to fully grasp how amazing he was. Everything about him felt so...heroic? Like he played and carried himself with a larger than life aura. He truly was unstoppable, like Joakim said players feared him, you saw it in their body language.

Like the Miami Heat was THE villain to beat in the league and Derrick Rose with the Bulls were the only ones that people felt that could take them down. The Pacers surprised a lot of people because they went hard against Miami but Bulls were THE team that could truly beat them.

To this day there have been a lot of players that remind me of Derrick like Ja, Westbrook, Kyrie but none of them give off the same aura as Rose. The other only player that game me the same feeling that Rose did was Curry during his 2 MVP season.

[benjamingriffin]

Jo a the man, , the amount of love he has in Chicago shows what a dawg he is. Was definitely the spirit and energy of those Bulls teams, god i miss it

[carlscott]

Authenticity is what makes DRose a captivating fellow.

[ignorantbambino]

Damn I miss d rose. What Noah said was right though, we love rose in Chicago so much because he was truly the hometown kid. He came from the southside, went to simeon (if you from Chicago you know what simeon means to us) from englewood, he walk like us, talk like us. Everybody wanted to love the dream of being drafted #1 to the bulls. He carried himself well throughout that time period too. Miss you rose!

[yutoob]

I think part of why he’s so loved is that he was calm as can be but had freakish explosiveness, it was that Yin and Yang dynamic. Also the perseverance he’s shown over time is really inspirational.

[ljd]

JJ hit the nail on the head on the ‘hope’ Derrick brought to so many in Chicago. I was at his first game opening night against the Bucks in 2008. When he ran out of the tunnel and PA announcer Tommy Edwards bellowed “Frommmm Chicagooo” for the very first time, the building had not reached those volume levels since 98. The rose that grew from the concrete. He will get MVP chants every time he is here until the day he retires. It is an unconditional love for a hooper that made so many people believe and our town will show him that as long as he is around.