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John Calipari gushes about Derrick Rose after ‘pain tolerance’ remarks

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John Calipari made some comments about Derrick Rose earlier this week that were interpreted by many as being unflattering, and the Kentucky coach took to Twitter on Thursday to do a bit of damage control.

In an appearance on Colin Cowherd’s radio show, Calipari spoke about how Rose needs to be 100 percent healthy because he doesn’t have a high tolerance for pain. He probably didn’t mean it as an insult, but the backlash inspired these tweets:

Rose’s performance this season has not been good, and we got into that in more detail here. As our Darryn Albert notes, Rose appeared in all 40 games — the longest an NCAA basketball season can be — during his one season at Memphis playing under Calipari.

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