Many NBA players neglect to consider what comes after basketball, focusing all their energy into the game. Not Derrick Rose, he has a plan.
Derrick Rose was never able to recapture the magic of his MVP-winning, pre-injury, peak-athletic days, but he’s had a more than respectable NBA career. His career averages — 17.8 points, 5.3 assists and 3.3 rebounds aren’t Hall-of-Fame material but the reflect a player who filled a meaningful NBA niche for well over a decade.
At the age of 34, Rose has fallen out of the Knicks rotation a bit but is still a sought-after trade piece as playoff contenders look for veteran ball-handling to round out their rotations. The point is, he still has some meaningful basketball contributions to make. But that doesn’t mean he’s not thinking about what comes next.
Rose recently spoke with Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News about this season, the trade rumors and what comes next for him. However, Bondy left three of Rose’s post-retirement plans out of the piece and shared them on Twitter instead.
What does Derrick Rose have planned for retirement?
Obviously, those three ideas have varying degrees of financial upside. But with roughly $180 million in career earnings by the end of his current contract, he probably has the freedom to chase some passions. If Rose did end up following one of those paths as a second career, he wouldn’t be the first former NBA player to go a very different route.
Nikola Mirotic has bought a sheep farm and plans on becoming a cheesemaker when he’s done. Wayman Tisdale pursued a career as a jazz musician, eventually recording a No. 1 album. Bryant Reeves retired to a cattle ranch. Shandon Anderson become an accomplished vegetarian chef.
And me? I’m going to go start training for the Derrick Rose Professional Chess Extravaganza.
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