Derrick Rose is not friends with these douche bags

 

If you watched the lead up to the All-Star game last night you may have noticed something about our guy Derrick Rose that I have been noticing lately.  He doesn't really seem to like or fit in with Lebron and his crew at all. These all seem to be the guys that bow to the thrown of King James and want to create super teams with other stars, like Lebron did.  This group includes guys like Wade, Bosh, Howard, Chris Paul, Amar'e, Carmelo and a few others.

Before the game last night there was the super awkward interview that David Aldridge had with Rose and Lebron, where you can tell that neither one of them wanted to be there. When Aldridge asked Rose if Lebron gave him any advice, Rose just said, "He's a busy guy". Then during the starter introductions the other four guys came out doing cheesy dances (or doing some terrible air-guitar if you are Dwight Howard) and Rose just came out and kind of looked at them, like I'm the young one here but you guys are acting like kids. And then when all the East starters did the Lebron chalk throw you could tell Derrick didn't want to do it, but he played along because he didn't want people to talk so he just mailed it in, and did a half-assed chalk throw in the background.

Now I'm not saying he hates these guys, but he definitely doesn't want to be buddies with this Lebron led crew of guys.   During the off season last year Rose wasn't going out of his way to recruit Lebron like everyone else in the league. He said it would be great to add him to the team, but that he liked his teammates and they could win without Lebron. And it seems like if you don't think that Lebron is the awesomest dude on the planet, then Lebron probably doesn't like you too much.

This isn't to say that Rose is some kind of loner. His teammates all seem to like him and he is good friends with Durant and Westbrook.  Maybe its as simple as these superstar cliques formed down the lines of the last two USA Basketball teams (well and the Celtics as their own clique, we know nobody likes them), but however it happened its kind of nice to see that these guys aren't all buddies anymore.  We might get more old school basketball rivalries going forward, and that is something I am very excited about.

So Derrick is going to keep doing his thing and he knows he doesn't have to kiss Lebron's ass to be a star in the league. He has done it his own way, with his teammates and they are all going to show Lebron and the super friends how good they are without him when they play on Thursday.