Following the 2010-2011 season, the Chicago Bulls looked to be at the top of the basketball world.  They had just finished with the best regular season record in the league, they lost a hard-fought Eastern Conference Finals against the Heat, and their young superstar, Derrick Rose, was just named league MVP.  However, things did not go as planned.  Multiple knee injuries kept Rose off the court for much of the next 3 seasons, and tensions grew between the hometown star and the team he grew up cheering for.  Things may have come to a head yesterday, when Rose was accused of drugging and gang-rapping an ex-girlfriend in a civil suit.

Rose, of course, released a statement, claiming that he will be proven innocent.  The Bulls released a much shorter statement, and you could feel that Rose’s time in Chicago may have just gotten shorter.  Only time will tell if the allegations against Rose prove to be true, and an initial reading of the lawsuit does show some problems in the accuser’s accounts, but this type of accusation causes damage regardless.