Welcome to the ringer NBA show. I'm Chris Vernon alongside me every Tuesday is Kevin O'Connor from the ringer the ice cream man himself. What's up, Kev?

Chris, what's going on? What a game last night. All of the college football game was totally unbelievable. Before we came on today, we were talking about the Sean Watson who

made it make quite the name for himself. He became a legendary figure in sports. That's for sure. I can't believe you watched it. I didn't know you liked college football. Yeah, man. I football. I'm football is right up there with me for just right there. That's a ball. I'm a big NFL fan too.

All right. Well, the big story that came out of the NBA last night was the missing in action Derek Rose. This is bizarre. Now as the time of recording, we don't know what the situation. We haven't gotten any clarity.

He per se outside of, you know, I think Hornisex said is a family situation. There were reports that he went back to Chicago, but he'd gotten benched in a game.

And then he didn't show up to the arena last night. Then the reports that came out from Adrian Wojcarnowski were that the Nix had reached out to him, but hadn't had any contact with them. And then the game just plays out horribly for the Nix. And get two guys ejected.

They almost hurt Anthony Davis or rather did hurt Anthony Davis. And they didn't know where their starting point guard was. I read Chris Ryan did a rundown of it on the ringer this morning. Just it was also bizarre for that to be the NBA story last night.

Yeah, I mean, it's bizarre that Rose has fallen so fast. Really. I was thinking back. It was just six years ago. At this time, Derek Rose was in the middle of a most valuable player season. He was unbelievable. He is probably, I think.

Not the consensus top point guard in the league, but he was a consensus top three to five point guard and and so quickly things can change the NBA. And it's just sad to see how it happened really.

You know, and I, you know, I hope there's everything's okay with him. I hope everything's okay with his family. I knew Derek a long time. I first met Derek when he was in high school. And of course, he played college basketball at Memphis. And I covered those teams. And I've always had a fondness for him.

This whole situation is is quite bizarre. And I hope everything's okay with him. But I've been through this once before with a player. And it was Alan Iverson. When he first came to play for the Memphis Grizzlies, he he lasted like all of three games. And he just left. And it was a quote family situation. And he was never to be heard from again. Right. I mean, like right before he left. He said, you know, people were like, are you injured? And his famous quote was my butt hurts from sitting on the back.

And he said, right. That's what he said. And then he was gone. And then like that. I don't know. It's the first thing that came to my mind because it's all to, you know, I hate to speculate that something's not wrong with him. But it is quite coincidental that things haven't been going right for Rose on the court. Andy got benched in the game. And then he just doesn't show up to the arena the next time around.

You know, it reminded me of I think it was a 2012 feature article in GQ magazine.

By Will Leach. And it detailed how Derek Rose doesn't love the fame. I looked at that this morning before we got on. And there's a paragraph in there that leech wrote something along the lines of

just how Derek Rose just doesn't like all the attention that comes with the stardom. He doesn't. He wants to be able to have time where he's alone, where he's just with his family, where he can just have 24 hours to himself.

And I wonder if that's really just what it was here. I mean, there was the report that said he went back to Chicago to be with his family.

It might be the type of thing where he just he doesn't want the attention. He just needs a time alone. And I think, you know, and it's his job. And this is responsibility to be there for next games.

And he, you know, we don't know what happened exactly. But I think it's just interesting to go back to read that article in GQ and

concern it with what's happening today and what we're talking about. So give it, give it that being true. And that's his personality. Yeah, is there anything worse than playing in New York. I mean, good grief. Yeah.

You know, to me, I know. And at least, at least in Chicago, he always had the safe haven of it being hometown. Right. It's a big

market. But Derek Rose was a hero from the time he was 15 years old in that market. And his family and friends are all there. Right. So, and so this is, this is the first time in a long time, even when he played college basketball, his brother and others around him were around all the time.

Right. Like just, you know, he's just a was a one year deal when he had to play in college. Other than that, he'd been in Chicago. Like he left Chicago, played college basketball for a year. Right.

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