The funny part about Rose being cleared to play last season, was a decision that the front office and Rose made. The front office wanted to be conservative, because ACL tears are very difficult to recover from for a pro athlete, namely a player that has conditioned their body to play on hardwood.
Just give up. Rehashing something from last season is useless. Everyone acknowledges that Rose and the front office sent the media mixed signals which started a shit storm. I do a lot of engineering work, and when you have projects, some of them simply don't have deadlines. They are done when they are done. Despite this fact, people still ask for estimated dates, deadlines, etc, when all of that is not possible to give out. Yet, a few developers and engineers will make a calculated guess at when something will be complete, tell the audience that project-XYZ is on track to be done by date-ABC, and the audience, applying their selective hearing, ignores the facts and treats an estimate as a hard date. It's a difficult concept to grasp, not just in development, but also biologically speaking.
