Chicago Bulls rumors: Derrick Rose, Carmelo Anthony met by accident?
By Josh Hill
The now infamous and highly questionable meeting between Derrick Rose and Carmelo Anthony has been overblown in more ways than one. It was initially reported that Rose was involved in the meeting from the start and even worked out for Melo, which was later adjusted to say Rose basically popped his head in the door and said hello before continuing down the hall.
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According to the Chicago Tribune, the current ‘real’ version of the story goes that Rose was already scheduled for a rehab and practice session at the United Center on Tuesday and the meeting with Melo was just short of happenstance.
"ESPN.com reported that the front office hadn’t asked Rose to attend Tuesday’s free-agent pitch to Anthony and that a surprised Rose stopped his workout to briefly say hello when he saw Anthony touring the United Center.In fact, sources said Bulls officials requested weeks ago for Rose to participate in the pitch should they get an audience with Anthony once free agency began. When official contact was allowed late Monday and details of Anthony’s Chicago visit were finalized, sources said they were communicated to Rose."
There seems to be so many different versions of the story that it will eventually come out that Rose and Melo didn’ even meet or that Melo wasn’t even in Chicago and the meeting took place somewhere else. We know it didn’t, but the story has so many different holes that it’s starting to look like that whole thing about Chicago having a good feeling about Melo might be untrue as well.