Jalen Rose, member of the University of Michigan's Fab Five and 14-year veteran of the NBA, has made efforts to provide free education to underserved youth in Detroit by opening up his own school, the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy. Rose, like many of his students, never met his own father, but unlike those kids fathers, his was one of the most famous Detroit Pistons players of his time, a fact that would drive Rose to success and inspire him to open his school.