Rose faces a recovery of eight months to a year. The assessment by team physician Dr. Brian Cole on Tuesday means the point guard could return around mid-January to early February, or miss next season. The doctor added there is a chance Rose could be back sooner, but “we’re not going to rush it.”
Rose had surgery on Saturday after being injured two weeks earlier in Chicago’s playoff-opening win over Philadelphia, a major blow for a team eyeing its first championship since the Michael Jordan-Scottie Pippen era. The Bulls simply weren’t the same without their superstar point guard and bowed out in six games, making them the fifth top seed to lose to an eighth seed.
Chicago was closing out a 103-91 victory in Game 1 and Rose was showing his MVP form when everything changed.
He came to a jump stop in the lane with about 1:20 left and his leg buckled. He went up again and passed to Carlos Boozer in midair before crashing to the court, sending a chill through the arena.
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