Jalen Rose

Jalen Rose (born January 30, 1973) is an American former NBA player, actor, podcaster, author and media personality from Detroit. He studied mass communication at the University of Michigan from 1991 to 1994, began his professional career in 1994 and received the NBA Most Improved Player Award in 2000. He later earned a Bachelor of Science in management from the University of Maryland Global Campus in 2005. His YouTube channel, JalenTV, had about 108,000 subscribers in February 2025, and he had about 1.81 million followers on X in February 2023.