The former Cavalier and NBA MVP announces his departure after 16 seasons

They faced the Cleveland Cavaliers for many years Derrick Rose as a rival.

The point guard spent most of his NBA career with one of Cleveland’s division rivals, the Chicago Bulls.

On Thursday, the NBA MVP of the 2010/2011 season announced that he was leaving basketball after 16 seasons in the NBA.

According to Stathead, Rose has faced the Wine and Gold in 31 career regular season games, averaging 17.3 points, 5.9 assists and 2.9 rebounds per contest. In the postseason, he averaged 22.0 points, 6.3 assists and 4.1 rebounds in 12 games against the Cavaliers.

But while Rose spent more than 11 seasons in the Eastern Conference with Cleveland, the first overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft briefly teamed up with the Wine and Gold.

The Cavaliers signed Rose in the 2017 offseason after the team’s third consecutive NBA Finals appearance. Just last season, he averaged 18.0 points per game for the New York Knicks, which was his highest score since the 2011/2012 season.

November 3, 2017; Washington, DC, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers defenseman Derrick Rose (1) dribbles the ball while Washington Wizards defenseman John Wall (2) defends in the third quarter at Capital One Arena. The Cavaliers won 130-122. Mandatory: The Paintings of Geoff Burke-Imagn / The Paintings of Geoff Burke-Imagn

In total, Rose played just 16 games for Cleveland in 2017-18, starting seven of them. In 19.3 minutes per contest, he averaged 9.8 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists.

His time with the Wine and Gold got off to a decent start, as he scored double-digit goals in each of his first seven games with the team. However, after missing four of the Cavaliers’ first 11 games, an ankle injury and voluntary absence caused him to miss 32 straight games before returning to action in mid-January 2018.

Rose then played in nine of Cleveland’s 10 games during that span, averaging just 6.3 points per contest during that stretch, before being traded to the Utah Jazz in February.