American Drake Rose announced today, Thursday, his retirement from basketball, putting an end to a career full of achievements, since he was chosen No. 1 by the Chicago Bulls in the “Draft” competitions for young talents joining the NBA in the year 2008, and his selection in 2011 at the age of 22. In the spring with his team, Chicago, he won the NBA Best Player Award, an achievement that is still engraved in his name as he is the youngest player in the history of the NBA to receive this award.
Rose said in a message to the players on his Instagram account: “You believed in me in good and bad times, and you were steadfast with me when everything else seemed uncertain.”
It is noteworthy that in his first season, 2008-2009, Rose won the Best Rookie Award with the Chicago Bulls. He was also selected to the All-Star team in three of his first four seasons, but a serious knee injury during the 2012 playoffs forced him to miss two full seasons. He retired from playing several times, but he always found ways to return to the field, in a career that spanned 15 years, during which he moved to play with major professional league clubs such as “New York”, “Detroit”, “Minnesota”, “Cleveland” and “Memphis”. Before spending last season with the Grizzlies, his last stop in the NBA.
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