D Rose: Most Valuable Role Model

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Excerpt - ...Derrick Rose is a textbook role model for my kids as well as yours. He surrounds himself with quality people and doesn’t have the entourage of hangers on of so many pro athletes. He’s a guy with incredible talents, yet someone who doesn’t sit back and rely solely on those talents. He still pushes himself in much the same way Michael Jordan did to take his game to an even higher level. It’s called working hard to fulfill and maximize your potential – whether that potential is to be the best athlete you can be or the best ditch digger...

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Can the people that took his SAT take mine?

Just kidding he seems like a good kid I remember watching him and my boy Eric Gordon kill in AAU back in the day. That team was unstoppable. They are both good people.
 

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With so many athletes out there that are constantly in the spotlight for the wrong reason, it's great to see a hometown kid in the spotlight for being a good person and being someone the kids of Chicago can look up to.
 

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athelete for a role model, no thanks. hes a great guy, beast of a ball player, i love Michael Jordan, but besides him, all my role models are dead.
 
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