"I try my hardest to stay away from (the predictions)," Rose said. "But we know we have an opportunity ahead of us. It may not be this year, it may not be the next year or whatever, but I know that we have one (in us). I know I'm going to win a championship soon so I'm not worried about that."

But as the Bulls enter their first training camp practice on Tuesday, it remains to be seen just how much action Rose will see in the preseason and early in the regular season.

Thibodeau wants his star point guard to play, but he also understands he must be cautious with how much time Rose sees. While Thibodeau didn't acknowledge a specific plan being in place, he did hint that Rose's schedule could look different than some of his teammates.

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

I'm OK with Garpax and Derrick not speaking ever.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I'm sick of "D Rose".

Just a matter of time before he goes down again.

When is his contract off the books??