Minnesota Timberwolves point guard Derrick Rose is reportedly set to release his autobiography within the next few months. Interestingly, the former season MVP's memoir is expected to contain some personal insight on the Jimmy Butler saga that haunted the Timberwolves last year — something Rose witnessed first hand.
New post: Derrick Rose has a book coming out in September. An advance copy shows some good insights into battle between Jimmy Butler and #twolves last season.https://t.co/5JJQ6gegI4 pic.twitter.com/uqLsQwpXK7
— RandBall (@RandBall) June 5, 2019
Michael Rand of Star Tribune provided some excerpts from Rose's upcoming book, which somewhat comes to the defense of his former teammate, but still calls out the former Most Improved Player winner for not going about his demands the proper way.
“Look, it wasn’t his fault,” Rose wrote of Butler’s situation and trade request. “It’s the league’s fault. Nothing against Karl-Anthony Towns, he’s cool — and he’s good. But you get these kids and you spoil them before they achieve something.”
One page later, Rose adds: “Jimmy was feeling, ‘Why’d y’all pay them first and I was the one that got you to the playoffs?’ That’s all it was. Jimmy wasn’t doing it right, though he was right.”
Rose went on to share his perspective on the infamous incident involving Butler and his alleged outburst during one of the team's practices.
“Scored one time in that practice they were all writing about. Yes, one basket. Right hand up to God. What’s so exciting about that? But the media is going crazy. You would think he scored 30. … It was killing Thibs, I tell you. He wasn’t saying anything to us, but you could tell he was taking it hard.”
Rose opts to downplay the incident, and based on what we've read here so far; it seems that from where he's sitting, all the drama between Butler and the Timberwolves was indeed heavily sensationalized by the media.
There should be a lot of other good stuff in the book other than the Butler incident, as Rose definitely has a career worth writing home about.
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