Elise Amendola/AP
More than anything else Derrick Rose has been — to me and to millions of others often too marginalized to understand — he has been a reflection. Not of his career or his life but of life. Of me. Of so many others. Of us.
Not specifically of what we see when we look in a mirror but more of the reflection the world interprets when one of those like us rises, shines and ends. Not in death but in calling.