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Derrick Rose injury: The NBA’s heartbreak story reverberates in Oklahoma City
NBA Playoffs: Nick Collison on the Derrick Rose injury: “It’s crazy how you can build your whole organization around a guy, to be geared up for playoffs all year, and then he goes down.”
By JOHN ROHDE
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Published: April 29, 2012
Oklahoman
Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook awoke from his usual pregame nap to learn his close friend Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls had suffered a knee injury in Saturday’s opening NBA playoff game.
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“I was hoping he would be all right, then I didn’t know exactly what happened,” explained Westbrook, who works out daily with Rose in Santa Monica, Calif., during the offseason.
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