Derrick Rose better never get a kidney stone, calls ACL tear 'The closest to death I’ve got to' | Bob's Blitz

Derrick Rose better never get a kidney stone, calls ACL tear 'The closest to death I’ve got to'

CSNChicago.com's Aggrey Sam interviewed All-Star Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose last month. The rehabbing Bull is quite taken with hyperbole when it comes to his ACL tear:

"I remember it," he recalled. "I remember everything. I remember jumping in the air and coming back down, and just that popping sound. I felt it actually tear when I laid all the way out and it just let go.

"I didn't have that much pain after that. In the beginning I did, but I didn't want to yell or anything. When that happened, all I could think about was people just talking. You could hear the whole arena, people just whispering all around — one of the things, like 'Not again. Come on, man. First game back. We had the win' — and I was just hoping [it was] nothing serious," Rose continued. "Then, we got to the hospital, got in the MRI machine, the whole time praying.

"Dr. [Brian] Cole, the Bulls doctor [who also performed the subsequent surgery], came up to me and told me it was torn. I couldn't believe it. That's the closest thing to death, the closest to death I've got to right there, where it just seemed like the wind and everything was taken out [of me]."
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