This excerpt of “I’ll Show You,” by Derrick Rose with Sam Smith, is presented with permission from Triumph Books. For more information or to order a copy, please visit http://www.triumphbooks.com/derrickrose
With the basketball, the way Phil [Jackson] had talked, and with [Joakim Noah] and [Carmelo Anthony], I really thought we were going to do something.
But when it came to the basketball, I knew right away that we were s–t.
I played through it, 60-some games, but I could tell right away it wasn’t the season I was expecting. Lot of different priorities.