Video: Derrick Rose GQ Photoshoot

Derrick Rose has not seen as much action on the hardwood this season as he would have liked. He's missed almost 40-percent of the Bulls games due to various injuries. In his previous three season Rose only missed a total of six games so yo know that must be frustrating especially with the Bulls having the best record in the NBA to this point.

It has still been busy for the fourth year guard out of Chicago. There was the new contract with Adidas, the purchase of a condo in the Trump Tower and he's also expecting his first child with longtime girlfriend Meika Reese.

Well chalk up a GQ photoshoot to the list now. Check out the video of the shoot

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Video: DRose MVP Commercial From Adidas

Deserved it was for Derrick Rose to be named the league MVP this season. Did you see the guy play? Better yet did you see the guy play when his hometown Windy City Bulls didn't have their full roster (Nov/Dec 2010). That is why he is the MVP. Carrying the team with key piece missing. Rose is low key, quiet ya know kinda keeps to himself, until tip-off and then he speaks in volumes...with his overall basketball "talents"/skill, no claptrap there.

DRose endorses Adidas and in return Adidas responded with a special commercial for the MVP. Oh and yea being the youngest player in history to win the award (ousting Wes Unseld) is just a sheer bonus. There were not many people against Rose for MVP but were just glad talent won out despite the age because even at 22 years young, the youngster has a grown man game. Now food for thought...he would have just completed his senior season at Memphis... and you wanted to see him play four years in college? He got his degree...in Hoopology. If an MVP Award in your fourth year, leading your team to the leagues best record, playing under a first-year head coach doesn't seal it then what will, oh a Championship, but you can earn your degree before you become a champion., it's just final exam time.

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Over the Weekend: Jordan and Pippen Return to Chi-town + Josh Powell gets Arrested at work

Boy oh, boy.

The United Center was thick with the air of nostalgia on Saturday night.

Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan

Kelly Dwyer from Ball Don't Lie, writes very descriptively: 
 

On a night where Chicago celebrated the 20th anniversary of its city's first NBA championship, the parallels between the 1991 Chicago Bulls, and their 2011 counterparts were striking.
First, you had to remind the fans of what was. The Utah Jazz, that noted Western combatant of Chicago's during the 1990s, was in town to play on a nationally televised, WGN-TV game. And the old voice of WGN, current ESPN radio broadcaster Jim Durham, was in town to lead a halftime celebration of the 20th anniversary of Chicago's first NBA championship.

This wasn't your typical Jumbotron-led affair. Each player on that year's playoff roster -- save for Bill Cartwright (now coaching in Phoenix) and B.J. Armstrong (his player representative duties gone into hyperdrive with this week's NCAA action) -- was led out to center court individually to raucous cheers. Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan both addressed the crowd, after the players were handed a commemorative plaque.

Phil Jackson, stuck with coaching duties in with his Lakers in Dallas on Saturday night, was the lone speaker who couldn't have been influenced by first half play of these current Bulls, and it showed as he sent a video-taped message in which he referred to "all of us [1991] Bulls." And though the scoreboard featured reel after reel of 1991-era highlights for the fans (which stood throughout) to bask in, it was Jordan himself (speaking to the sold-out crowd) that brought things all the way up to 2011.

"You guys," he said to the fans, "are in for a lot more championships. At least six more are coming."

It didn't seem to be pandering, either, even if it was. After the ceremony, Jordan wasn't done.

"I don't think it's going to take [the current Bulls] seven years to win," referring to the time between Jordan's first appearance as a Bull in 1984 and the team's first title in 1991. "They've got a good, balanced team."

The Bulls did beat he Jazz 118-110.

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Want More Scottie Pippen, Ok You Got It.

Scottie Pippen has coming back on the scene for quite sometime now. Well he just landed some playoff basketball work on press row. Pippen will be joining the Chicago Bulls telecast to add color with Play-by-Play man Neil Funk and Stacey King on color.

James J. Corno president of Comcast SportsNet Chicago said...

"Scottie Pippen is most certainly one of the greatest players in NBA history whose knowledge and passion of the game is second to none,” said James J. Corno, President of Comcast SportsNet Chicago. “We’re thrilled Scottie will be on our team with Neil and Stacey for the March 4th telecast at Orlando, along with every Bulls playoff telecast on Comcast SportsNet this spring.”

It should be exciting to see Pippen bring his knowledge to the broadcast world. Especially after dropping 17 in the celeb game we at least know he still has it. Just don't know if he or Stacey will say it first though "Remember when were playing against xyz that time and...that happen...and coach told us..." and then Neil will chime in with a remark. Just one note to Pip don't do the Eric Snow on the mic ok. The Bulls should never put anyone to sleep.

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