D.Rose not playing the entire year is perfectly fine and understandable with that kind of injury.
What is not fine is his marketing team and his brother, or whoever is behind this, they really fucking up his image. His brother should have kept his mouth shut, lol.
He could have simply said his knee still doesn't feel right to him, and he most likely wont be coming back this season, and people could have accepted that, or not, either way, we wouldn't have the issue that we have now.
But the fact that he continually says that he can "come back at any time, who knows", keeps bring peoples hopes up, and then smacking them right back down, which is obviously making people upset, and this is on top of what his brother said, which makes it worse.
Personally I think D.Rose wants to play, but his brother told him to shut it down for the entire season. As competitive as he is, ain't no way he is just willingly sitting there watching his team fall apart. Of course, that's just my guess on things, I don't know anything about the nigga.
