Didn't that stupid pass just speed up the recovery time for everyone having offseason surgeries, though? Pretending the Bulls could have gotten past the Celtics in round 2, and then maybe a 5 or 6 game series in the ECF, that's nearly another month of play. Probably true, in retrospect. I was pretty upset with him when it happened though. deng isn't having his surgery until the after the olympics and rose already has his, so it's completely irrelevant But didn't Rose's surgery take place once the season was over? Was he putting it off so that he wouldn't miss any games? If he was, then he potentially shaved an extra month of recovery time. Miss any games? You mean like watching them on the bench?