Derrick Rose Leaves Game With Left Knee Discomfort
(CBS) Bulls point guard Derrick Rose missed much of the second half of Chicago's 106-101 loss at Milwaukee on Tuesday night because of left patella tendonitis.
Rose didn't express serious concern about after the game about the injury, the Tribune's K.C. Johnson reported, adding he didn't think he'd need an MRI.
After starting the third quarter, Rose came out about two-and-a-half minutes into the half and got his left knee worked on by head trainer Jeff Tanaka. Eventually, he made his way to the exercise bike and returned midway through the fourth quarter, but he only stayed in for 2:24 before he was pulled again.
Rose didn't move well while he was out there in that stint.
"No sure yet how serious it is," Hoiberg said in a postgame interview on CSN Chicago.
"He went over to the bike and got himself loose and told Jeff Tanaka, our trainer, that he wanted to give it a go. So we put him back in there. You could tell he was wincing, and he was feeling some pain. So we got him out of there right away."
Rose finished with nine points on 3-of-9 shooting in 22:29 of playing time Tuesday.
This discomfort is in the same knee that Rose torn his ACL in back in April 2012, the start of a long string of serious injuries.
Rose has battled through various injuries to play in 32 of Chicago's 37 games this season. He suffered an orbital fracture at the start of training camp, missed two games because of a left ankle injury in November and missed three games recently because of a right hamstring problem that also caused swelling in his right knee.