Where is our Hero?

Dear Derrick Rose,

I AM CALLING YOU OUT.

Where are you? 

I feel like you have deserted your city. I feel like you are ready to go physically, and you can't find the mental fortitude to get you back on the court.

I feel like I'm being let down expecting this huge #RETURN as its being called, and its just not coming. Its not much of a return if you take a season off, and play at the start of the next. But Derrick, lets not talk about that, let me just tell you: WE NEED YOU

When I say we, I mean me, I mean your team, I mean your city, and I mean the game of basketball. Just look at your team; they have, against ALL odds, found a way to stay competitive, but how long can you expect them to keep the ship afloat? They held it together until the All-Star break, and your return was supposed to be on the horizon. Everything we heard was that you were ahead of schedule, was that you were jumping, cutting, practicing playing, and now just LOOK!

Now that its falling apart, you are nowhere to be found. We are sinking and you have not come to save us. How long can you expect us to hold it together without our leader? Without our saviour? Without our MVP?

Derrick this is my plea: 

I know you want to be 110% as you say it, but you won't be. The second you come back you are going to have lingering pain no matter what. But with time it will get better. You will not be 110% until you get back on the court. You were 100% when you were on the court, how can you get to 110% without getting back on it?

Chicago does not want you to rush back, but all signs point to you being physically ready. SO NOW ITS TIME DERRICK. It's time for you to come back and help us make a playoff run that everybody has written us off for. People say the Heat are invincible, but I know that you are the one that has the strength to loosen the vice grip LeBrick and W.o.W. (Washed Out Wade) have on this league.

Come back and help us. Come back and lead us. Come back and get our city a title. Come back and prove everyone wrong. And most of all, come back so I can love you again, because I don't know if I will ever think about you the same way again if you are not back this season.

Respectfully,

Alber Ahmad