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Is Jalen Rose the First Jalen? Solving a Sports Name Mystery (Re-Spin)

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

You’ll find several “Jalens” in the 2021 NBA draft this week. And that's on top of all the "Jalens" in the 2021 NFL draft. From Jalen Suggs to Jalen Green to Jalen Johnson, the announcement of the picks will have you hearing the name ... a lot. For years our colleague, friend and basketball veteran Jalen Rose has maintained today’s Jalens are named for him (whether they know it or not). In one of our favorite-ever episodes, we honor Jalen Rose’s mother, the recently passed Jeanne Rose, by exploring the history and mystery of his name in sports and beyond. With data, experts, and extensive interviews, the Jalen paradox is solved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jaylen Rose, you like to say that you are most famous in two specific kinds of places.

0:08.2

Is that right?

0:09.4

Two specific places, Pablo.

0:12.0

The delivery room and barbershops.

0:15.4

Barbershops, that should be obvious to anybody who's ever seen you.

0:19.9

Your hair line is immaculate.

0:22.0

It's the finest in America.

0:24.3

Angles measured by protractors.

0:26.6

But it's that first part.

0:28.5

I need you to explain your global influence in delivery rooms.

0:35.3

My name is Jalen Garrison.

0:39.1

Is there anything else after that? Yes, Jalen Rose indirectly did still have an impact on my name.

0:43.0

According to my dad, he happened to go to a Pacer's game with his brother, my uncle.

0:47.4

The way I spell my name Jalen is J-A-L-E.

0:51.8

I give all of the credit to my mother, the late great Jeannie Cassandra Rose, who my family lost and this world lost on February 2nd.

1:04.0

I come from a broken home, Pablo.

1:08.0

She was a single parent.

1:10.0

I'm the youngest of four. She was giving birth to her baby boy.

1:16.4

My biological father wasn't in the picture. My uncle Leonard rushed her to the hospital to give birth.

1:25.4

She was trying to decide on names.

1:33.3

So she figured she combined my biological father, James, with my uncle Leonard and thus gave birth to the name Jalen.

1:40.3

She's the inventor.

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