Derrick Rose is taking his journey full circle.
The former NBA MVP has announced the launch of ‘Rise With Rose’, a state-of-the-art rehab and recovery center designed specifically to help basketball players recover from catastrophic injuries like ACL and Achilles tears. The center is set to open later this year with more details to follow.
The goal? To create a facility that understands both the physical and psychological battle of returning from injury, because if anyone understands the struggle of coming back, it’s Derrick Rose.
Rose’s own career has been defined as much by his brilliance as by the pain that followed. After becoming the youngest MVP in league history in 2011, he tore his ACL in 2012 and was never quite the same.
Multiple knee surgeries, meniscus tears, and comebacks later, Rose battled through the darkest corners of physical rehab and mental uncertainty and managed to carve out a successful second chapter as a veteran presence in the league.
Now, he wants to help others do the same.
The launch of “Rise With Rose” comes at a time when the NBA is seeing an alarming surge in severe injuries. In the 2024-25 season alone, 12 players suffered either an ACL or Achilles tear, the highest ever recorded in a single campaign.
More troubling, eight Achilles injuries occurred this season, an unprecedented number compared to the 45 total Achilles injuries the league has seen in the previous 33 years combined.
This postseason alone saw Tyrese Haliburton, Jayson Tatum, and Damian Lillard all go down with devastating Achilles injuries. The toll on the game has been massive, not only impacting team outcomes but also the careers of franchise stars. Rose’s initiative aims to address this growing crisis head-on.
For Rose, this project is more than business. It’s legacy.
He may never reclaim the explosiveness that once had him on a Hall of Fame trajectory, but with “Rise With Rose,” Derrick is giving back to the game that made him and helping ensure the next generation doesn’t walk alone through the darkest chapters of recovery.
