12:30pm: The Knicks have confirmed the injury to Rose’s left knee and say arthroscopic surgery will be required (Twitter link). Estimated recovery time will be six to eight weeks, according to Wojnarowski (Twitter link).
12:04pm: Knicks point guard Derrick Rose has a torn meniscus in his knee and won’t play again this season, tweets Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical. This would be the fourth knee operation of Rose’s career, according to Dane Carbaugh of NBC Sports.com.
It’s uncertain how long Rose will need to recover from the injury or how it might affect the offers he gets in free agency. The 28-year-old played 64 games for the Knicks, averaging 18.0 points and 4.4 assists per night. He made more than $21.3MM in the final season of a five-year extension he received from the Bulls.
The injury could signal the end of Rose’s time in New York, as reports have said Knicks management is disappointed in his defense and won’t make a strong effort to re-sign him this summer. Rose was acquired from the Bulls last June along with Justin Holiday and a second-round pick in exchange for Robin Lopez, Jerian Grant and Jose Calderon.
So sad he only had a few more games to make decent money next year. He has 20+ in the bank right now and has a son that is growing maybe it’s time to hang it up D.Rose.
I’d hate to see him hang it up when it seems like he has more left in him but when you have glass knees, no one wants ya anymore
Surprise surprise
D Rose can’t stay healthy enough to be relied on as a every day starter. Someone needs to give him a deal somewhere around 12 million and have him as a backup playing 18 minutes.
Six to eight weeks? So he’ll be ready for the second round of the playoffs? Oh, wait. Never mind.
Just one thing missing from this article that I guess the writer is assuming we know…
How did it happen? Game? Getting out of bed? What I do know is that it didn’t happen playing defense.
Hoops Rumors should just have this headline stored in a macro, to save time when it is needed.
Ok, so who had 77 games in the betting pool? You can come and pick up your money.
He’s scum anyway. Should be in jail. Ditched his team earlier in the year as well.
get off the internet please, do us all a favor
The real news is that Derrick Rose even still had a meniscus at this point.
Lol. Agreed. I feel bad for the guy. But he should be in the wheel chair league, at this point.