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On the first day of the NBA playoffs, carnage. What a shame.
It didn't have to be this way.
I don't mean to rain on the parade, but reality did a fairly good job of that all by itself Saturday. Derrick Rose did a routine jump-stop on his way to the basket in the Bulls' first-round opener against the 76ers and tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Done. Done for the playoffs, and for the Olympics, if you care.
A while later, in the game I was watching at American Airlines Arena, the Knicks'
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