Joakim Noah Explains the Potential of Derrick Rose’s Prime

Your career worked very much in tandem with a certain 22-year-old MVP. For new fans of the NBA, how would you explain the potential prime of Derrick Rose? You know, Derrick had qualities that nobody else had on the basketball court. Like, we had never seen that kind of... explosive power with the skill that he had and also like being from Chicago it was like the energy that he brought every single time that he stepped onto the court was just definitely something that I couldn't be more proud to be a part of and I think it showed when we played you know this was obviously we were playing with an unbelievable talent but we were playing with the home the homegrown kid And so we understood what that represented for the city. I think we made the city really proud. Unfortunately, you know, it didn't end how we wanted. We wanted a championship and we didn't. But for us, for Derek, Derek's number to be up in the rafters next to Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen and Jerry Sloan, I think that that was our championship and what an honor it was to. To play ball with guys like Luol Deng, Taj Gibson, you know, we all got drafted together. So we all grew up together, basically. And yeah, I'm just really proud of those teams.