(Photo: Jose Juarez, Special to Detroit News)
Detroit — Like most good friends, Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard call and text one another often.
But since Howard was hired as the Michigan men’s basketball coach in late May, Rose said the two have only occasionally communicated over the last three months.
“The reason why is there's going to be a whirlwind of things that I know he needs to adjust to as the leader of the program,” Rose said Monday at the Detroit Golf Club before the ninth annual Jalen Rose Leadership Academy celebrity golf classic, the signature fundraising event for Rose’s open enrollment, tuition-free public charter high school.