It was during the Wednesday press conference at the Berto Center announcing his five-year, $94 million contract extension that Derrick Rose, the MVP from Englewood, turned to his mother, who was sitting with his three brothers nearby: “I can finally say this now, Mom,” he said. “We finally made it.”
Derrick Rose has made it, all right, and so have the Bulls, who were thrilled to lock up their home-grown franchise player to a maximum length extension.