I went to the E.W. Scripps School of …

I went to the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, interned at the Associated Press in Israel and worked at ESPN for nearly seven years. But I think my best journalism education has come from sitting next to Sam Smith in the media room at the United Center. I’ve cherished our talks before and after games and I can still remember how he chided me (and pretty much everyone else) for assuming Derrick Rose would come back during that fateful lost season in 2012-13. Sam didn’t believe he was coming back and this was well before the tumult started about Rose’s failed return. I should’ve listened to him. So it’s always nice to talk to him about his most famous book, “The Jordan Rules,” which got some TV time during “The Last Dance.”