Bill Simmons & Jalen Rose on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Part 2
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The Wolverine ESPN Promo – Jalen Rose helps out Sage Steele
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Hour Detroit – Winning Attitude
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Former U-M and NBA star Jalen Rose tackles the challenges of funding a charter school
November 2013 — The images of Jalen Rose as a supremely gifted 18-year-old freshman at the University of Michigan are cemented in the minds of basketball fans: the baggy shorts, the black socks, the in-your-face bravado that depicted to the world he was impervious to failure.
Rose, along with his Fab Five teammates — Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson — took college basketball by storm in 1992 as the first college team to start five freshmen. The quintet spearheaded the Wolverines to back-to-back NCAA Finals appearances in 1992 and 1993, where they fell short both times.
Those were harsh blows to Rose, who now admits he was “irrationally confident” during that time. It was a mind-set forged as a kid while playing pickup basketball with several neighborhood friends on a milk crate nailed to a wooden light pole.
“I always believed I was a good ball player — maybe too much so,” the Detroit native recalls. “My belief was that I was going to be somebody, that I was going to make it to the NBA.”
Rose realized that dream …
