"I think about Joakim a lot when it comes to my son because Jo was somebody who was a privileged kid," Rose said in the NBPA article. "Arthur Ashe found his dad [as a tennis phenom at 11 years old] — some historic stuff. [Noah] had a chance to go an opposite way, and he made it to the NBA. He was a silver-spoon kid. So he's going to be the example that I show [P.J.], like no matter what he did, he worked his butt off and he stayed true to himself and he made it this far. It's bigger than basketball between us two. I got his back and he's got mine."