{"id":6368,"date":"2011-05-05T14:02:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2011-05-05T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:39:42","slug":"rose-wins-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6368","title":{"rendered":"Rose Wins MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Chicago Bulls star<strong> Derrick Rose<\/strong> is the NBA\u2019s MVP, becoming the youngest player in league history to win the award.<\/p>\n<p>The news is hardly a surprise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rose<\/strong> is the second Bulls player to win the MVP, but has a ways to go before he catches <strong>Michael Jordan<\/strong>, who won five &#8211; but he sure is off to a good start. In his third year, the dynamic point guard led the Bulls to their best season since the <strong>Jordan<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>Scottie Pippen<\/strong> championship era.<\/p>\n<p>He ended the two-year MVP reign of<strong> LeBron James<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A product of Chicago\u2019s South Side, <strong>Rose<\/strong> continued his impressive rise this season.<\/p>\n<p>He established himself as one of the top players in the league after going from Rookie of the Year to an All-Star in his first two seasons with one of the best all-around performances by a point guard.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 25 points and 7.7 assists while leading Chicago into championship contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose is the NBA\u2019s MVP, becoming the youngest player in league history to win the award. The news is hardly a surprise. Rose is the second Bulls player to win the MVP, but has a ways to go before he catches Michael Jordan, who won five &#8211; but he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}