Derrick Rose was cutting up an apple in bed when things went wrong. See what he, coach Vinny Del Negro and guard Larry Hughes have to say about the rookie’s 10 stitches.

Since Derrick Rose’s story about rolling over onto a knife that had to be perpendicular from the bed doesn’t seem the most plausible, it is time to come up with alternative theories for what happened.

• Crazy ex-girlfriend?
• Convinced by the Chicago fans, Derrick came to the realization that he is in fact a god.  To test out whether he was actually a god, he tried stabbing himself to see what would happen.
• Derrick Rose is a very emo guy.  Could you blame him though?  That frontcourt would make anyone depressed.
• That football player whose girlfriend he slept with finally got his full revenge.
• Monkey knife fight.
• Derrick put up some posters of Tyrus Thomas and Joakim Noah in his room.  He began throwing knives at the posters, yelling “Catch this”.  On one of his throws, the knife bounced off Noah’s hands and came back into Rose’s arm.
• Paul Pierce part 2?
• The injury is actually a paper cut he received while swimming in Luol Deng’s pool of money.
• He cut himself while opening up a bag of gummi worms with a knife.  He was craving gummi worms so much that he didn’t take his time to safely open the bag.
• He’s covering for Ben Gordon, but the apple cutting story was a partial truth.  See, Derrick Rose was cutting his apples in bed, but at the same time, Ben Gordon was also in the room dribbling a basketball.  Gordon then proceeded to dribble the ball off his foot.  The ball bounced and hit Rose’s hand in which he was holding the knife, and forced Rose to stab his other arm.

According to NBC News Chicago, Derrick Rose cut his arm with a knife after cutting apples. Here is what NBC wrote:

According to a Bulls public relations source, the rookie guard cut himself at home while slicing an apple in bed. Rose reportedly put the knife on his bed and then later rolled over onto the knife, cutting his arm.

Rose received 10 stitches in his arm but is expected to play Tuesday night against the Knicks at the United Center

Derrick Rose is great on the basketball court, but that doesn’t keep him from making stupid mistakes. Why would Derrick Rose be cutting an apple in bed? Why would he put a dirty knife on his bed? Rose needs to learn to cut his apples at the kitchen counter and then leave the knife in the sink or dishwasher after cutting the apple.

On the bright side, at least Derrick Rose was eating an apple instead of gummi bears, skittles, or peeps.