It was one of the ugliest off-court moments in recent NBA history. After Derrick Rose was found not liable for the alleged gang rape of his former girlfriend in 2016, jurors took pictures with the former league MVP outside the Los Angeles courthouse.

Is Derrick Rose a Hall of Famer? What is the Chicago native's legacy with the Bulls? Our NBA insiders examine the former MVP's 16-year career.

Derrick Rose played in parts of 2 seasons with Detroit Pistons. Rose took out newspaper ads in each of the 6 NBA cities he played for.

Derrick Rose, the former MVP and one of the most beloved and respected players in the NBA, announced his retirement on Thursday morning after 15 seasons. As word filtered through the NBA world today,

I was sitting with Derrick Rose at a promotional event downtown and I asked him about his dreams. Not his goals or aspirations — we were nearly four years past his MVP season — but his actual dreams during the dark days that followed his left ACL tear in the first game of the 2012 playoffs and the subsequent right knee meniscus tear that robbed him of his 2013-14 season,

The most significant win of Derrick Rose's NBA career came when he was 22 years old, which isn't the way it's supposed to go for a budding icon who never made it to full bloom. In May 2011, Rose outplayed LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to defeat the vaunted Miami Heat in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals,

The word that comes to mind, or rather to the heart of everything with Derrick Rose, is focus. It takes an inordinate amount of focus to make it through a treacherous road to even get to a professional level and even more steel to elevate.