NEW YORK — He spent 14 days wearing a suit and tie instead of a blue and orange practice uniform. He spent half of October sitting in a Los Angeles courtroom while the rest of his team got to know one another 3,000 miles away. The details of his sex life were exposed to the public.
His absence forced his bosses to answer questions they didn’t want to field.
This, it’s safe to say, was not how Derrick Rose or the Knicks envisioned preseason playing out, certainly not when just four months earlier Rose was “thanking” the Chicago Bulls for granting him “another start” by trading him to the New York Knicks, and certainly not when in late September Knicks president Phil Jackson was blowing off questions about him and saying he didn’t “anticipate” Rose missing any part of training camp or preseason games.
Then the particulars of the civil suit filed by Jane Doe against Rose, alleging that Rose and two friends raped her, began to trickle out.
On Sept. 1 we learned, courtesy of Think Progress, that Rose had disclosed, under testimony, that the woman ...
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