<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>By Steven Black (WR, mind you) of the Memphis football team. Apparently, Rose was sleeping with a girl that both Black and him were seeing and Black walked in on him. Rose didnt hold a press conference for announcing his entry into the NBA Draft because of this, supposedly. The University also advised him not to press charges in an attempt to cover up this whole situation. This is a hot story all over the message boards and blogs, here is a legitimate blog about it: D-Rose is gonna have to improve his defense Turns out there might be a good reason for Derrick Rose not holding a press conference to announce his NBA plans. You know, besides the whole he's-really-shy thing. Which is not to suggest Rose isn't really shy, because he is really shy. Anybody who has ever seen the freshman basketball star in front of a camera knows that to be true. But multiple sources close to the Memphis basketball and football programs have told CBSSports.com that Rose was recently involved in an altercation over a girl with Tiger football player Steven Black, an altercation that -- how to phrase this? -- didn't go so well for Rose. Put another way, the possible No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft spent the early part of this week looking like a person who had just been in a scrap, making the way he announced his future plans -- through a release distributed by the Memphis Sports Information department -- convenient, if not necessary. That's the bad news. Here's the good news (in bullet points): * Rose is not said to be seriously injured. * Nobody was arrested or charged with a crime. * The altercation did not happen anywhere near the Plush Club. So in the end it seems what we have is two college guys scrapping over a girl. But this is still a story that provides the kind of Just Like Us moment highlighted in US Weekly, the kind of moment that proves even basketball stars/future millionaires have girl problems. In that way, they are indeed just like us -- except, of course, with better crossovers and earning potential.</div>
Crazy. Figures. It seems kids get dumber and dumber each year. Hopefully, this won't be a look into the future.
They compare him to Jason Kidd... didn't realize it was off the court too. At least the girl was involved with a football player at the school and not his own teammate.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (agoo101284 @ Apr 25 2008, 01:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So how about there was no press confrence because its nobody's business?</div> They are saying they cancelled his press conference anouncing that he was declaring for the draft because he looked like he was beat up, not a press conference about the fight.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (agoo101284 @ Apr 25 2008, 12:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So how about there was no press confrence because its nobody's business?</div> Or that the incident never happened. Lots of reasons for not holding a press conference.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jason voorhees @ Apr 25 2008, 05:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (agoo101284 @ Apr 25 2008, 12:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So how about there was no press confrence because its nobody's business?</div> Or that the incident never happened. Lots of reasons for not holding a press conference. </div> Oh, it happened. There's been a buzz around town about the incident for a while. The good thing is that Black didn't whoop Rose's ass while he was naked though. He told him to get dressed and meet him outside, and then he whooped his ass. By the way, for the supposed next great point guard, Rose needs to be less shy and more vocal, both on and off the court. Players like Chris Paul aren't just skilled basketball players, they're skilled leaders too. I don't think Rose always gets the best out of his teammates (ie: CDR's inconsistent and underachieving season), so that's why I'm giving Beasley the edge at this point. To me, Beasley's "character flaws" of being a loud, potentially hotheaded guy are lesser character flaws for a basketball player than being a timid floor general.
