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Article: As Jalen Rose learns, athletic family ties bind loosely.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 19, 2002
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DETROIT _ Less than two years ago, Jalen Rose was one of the most coveted basketball players in the world. He was 27 years old, a rising star and an NBA free agent.
Teams kept calling him. But he never picked up the phone, never showed any interest in leaving the Indiana Pacers.
Rose signed a seven-year deal to stay in Indiana and said he wanted "to help this team and city win a championship."
Said Rose: "My head and heart, the entire time, was to be an Indiana Pacer."
Rose's heart was in the right place, but if he thought he had made himself a Pacer-for-life, his head was in the clouds. The former Detroit Southwestern and Michigan ...