Earlier this week, ESPN's Colin Cowherd, host of The Herd on ESPN Radio and co-host of Sportsnation, went on a rant on twitter about how Derrick Rose isn't a true star because he didn't recruit LeBron hard enough to join the Bulls and that the only person he could get to join him was Carlos Boozer. He said Rose wants his own fame, and isn't a "get it guy" who wants rings. He said real stars want to play with other stars, and since Rose didn't make a good enough attempt to get LeBron last summer and refused to call him back or meet with him or whatever, Rose isn't a true star. I think Cowherd had a bad day earlier this week or something because I have no idea how any of this makes sense.
True stars don't want to play alongside other stars...they want to beat them. True stars know that if you win a ring by yourself with good complimentary players around you, then you've accomplished something huge. Kobe Bryant is a true star because he's not a "get it guy." While he's said he wanted to leave on multiple occasions, he never left the Los Angeles Lakers to join a team with more star players. He waited for his team to get players to help him, and they did. Obviously I am talking about the post-Shaq era of the Lakers, but even back then management went out and got Kobe help. More recently they got him Pau Gasol, Ron Artest, etc. The Cavs got LeBron players too, and he made the Finals..and lost. LeBron James is not a true star. What kind of true star agrees to create a super team made of 3 of the best players at their positions. Is anybody honestly going to be impressed when the "Heatles" win their first ring? I know I'm not. I'll be one of the people saying, "You have a stacked team in a league that welcomes decade long dynasties. Not impressive." Sorry for than mini LeBron rant, back to how Derrick Rose is a true star.
If the rumors are true and Rose refused to call back LeBron or meet with him or whatever, then that was the smartest thing he could have ever done. Sure acquiring LeBron would have put the Bulls on the fast track for multiple rings, but at what cost to Derrick Rose? With LeBron, Rose is just a sidekick, no longer a star. Without LeBron, Rose is the face of the franchise, the star. Without LeBron, everything the Bulls accomplish and don't accomplish is directly attributed to how Rose plays, and that is what a true star is. The Chicago Bulls is Derrick Rose's team, no one else's. The Miami Heat is whose team? They have 3 guys that could be the star, but no one is. You think Miami's closing problems and them not having 1 guy that wants the ball at the end of the game are just a coincidence? Heck no. You'd think it'd be easier when a team has multiple guys that have closing ability, but it clearly isn't. It isn't because it creates a controversy. With one star everyone on the team knows who will get the ball at the end of close games. With three stars no one knows what will happen or who is going to get it, hence the controversy.
Cowherd says that the only player Rose could get was Boozer and that proves what other stars think about him. Well considering that there were only 5 great free agents last summer in James, Wade, Amare, Bosh, and Boozer and 3 of them already knew they were probably going to the Heat, that leaves two left. Now consider the fact that Amare's old coach was in New York and that they had a boat load of money to spend since they were most likely going to loose out on LeBron; there goes Amare off the list. This leaves Boozer left, who the Bulls signed. Derrick Rose got the one guy he knew would come to Chicago and not steal his limelight but still help the team a lot. You can call it selfishness, or wanting his own fame, or whatever. I call it being a true star. He recognized when he was drafted that he was going to be the guy in Chicago, and he made sure no one was going to take that away from him, even if it could have meant multiple rings. Derrick Rose wants his own rings, and right now that's trumping forming a super team because the Bulls sit atop the East and the Heat are playing catch up 3.5 games back. Derrick Rose has a simple nickname, D-Rose, and he is A-Star.
References
http://twitter.com/#!/ESPN_Colin
http://search.espn.go.com/derrick-rose/
http://espn.go.com/nba/standings
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