(Editor’s note: Today continues a series looking at the 17 players – 15 under standard contracts, two on two-way deals – who comprise the 2019-20 Pistons roster heading into the home stretch of the off-season. Today: Derrick Rose. Coming Thursday: Bruce Brown.)
Derrick Rose’s career rebirth last season didn’t come because he reinvented himself. It came because he was far enough removed from the devastating effects of his multiple leg injuries to regain much of the explosiveness that had him speeding along a Hall of Fame track eight years ago.
The Pistons know they aren’t getting MVP-level Derrick Rose, but they’ll take every bit of the Rose who averaged 18.