Derrick Rose Injury Doesn't Necessarily Open Door For Boston Celtics

By Michael McCarthy, USA TODAY UPDATE: Nike said Sunday that sneaker designer Jason Petrie's tweets seeming to mock Derrick Rose's injury — and suggesting he would not have torn his ACL if he was wearing Nike basketball shoes instead of Adidas — were

By Dennis Wierzbicki, US Presswire The NBA season-ending injuries to center Dwight Howard, left, and point guard Derrick Rose, right, also will hurt the USA at the Olympics this summer. By Dennis Wierzbicki, US Presswire The NBA season-ending injuries

Derrick Rose dropped 23 points leading all scorers in a 103-91 Game one win, but left the game with an apparent knee injury with 1:10 left in the fourth quarter. Rose also contributed nine rebounds and nine assists in a near triple double,

The first day of the 2012 NBA playoffs saw two players—the Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose and the New York Knicks' Iman Shumpert—go down with season-ending knee injuries, and Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike Brown puts the blame partly on the compressed

By Mike Lopresti By Marc Serota, Getty Images Miami Heat forward LeBron James says he's all business about pushing for his first NBA title, and he better be, with his path presumably helped when Derrick Rose was lost for the postseason to the Chicago