Derrick Rose with the cloak of humility for All-Star Weekend - Los Angeles Times

The swarm down on Derrick Rose. devices and microphones recording stuffed into all angles. Cameras enlarged and focused.

Then it rained like a monsoon issues.

It was not like that at the Game last year in the NBA All-Star in Dallas. There were only 15 to 20 media types who told him, then for the All-Star media session typical.

"Well," he said Friday that the treasure at hand for the All-Star Game on Sunday evening, all wrapped, but he "is crazy."

Three times he was asked to be the leading candidate for MVP of the NBA, and three Rose bowed her head and pushed her gently, "I want to be."

He added that he owed more to his teammates, "cover all my mistakes."

Reverse psychology? blissful ignorance? Has the culture of nostalgia "MVP" chants?

Or maybe he really believes that Rose is lower shelf hardware that a player is under a different name as well.

But if so, only in this category.

"He is a monster different this year," said fellow All-Star Jazz point guard Deron Williams.

Rose has played extremely well in his last game before the break, torching the Spurs, the team with the best record in the NBA, a career-high 42 points Thursday on national television.

And when the Bulls in the third year guard went to Los Angeles, which had averaged 24.9 points and 8.2 assists, the Bulls earn 38 wins to 41 in all of last season. What is its highest point so far this season?

"This season, he said." It was great. I'm back on a winning team. "

Rose seems indifferent to the honor, even if it is to other friends.

"I never really as a whole (All-Star Game) observed live," he said, adding that he would play outside and catch highlights later.

Mention of comparisons with other elite point guards in Chicago, as Isiah Thomas and Maurice Cheeks, who was ashamed to watch Friday as a finalist for the 2011 class of the Basketball Hall of Fame, and, like Rose.

He does the same thing when he reminds us, is the first player to start in a Jordan Bulls All-Star Game since Michael in 1998.

Rose said he looks at other elite point guards, but Hornets All-Star Chris Paul said Rose is on a high as everyone else.

"He's right up there, up there with the best of them," said Paul. "To see his transformation from last year and the year before, it is incredible. He was an exceptional year."