Here's the great philosophical question for sports fans:

Would you rather have a good player who is not a superstar, but who is a good guy, community-oriented and caring, someone you can be proud of? Or players who care little or nothing for the community but produce excellence and championships?

Would you rather have Jalen Rose, who is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money and weeks of his own time in support of the community but has never been an All-Star or brought a winner here? Or the championship Bulls teams filled with stars who locked their car doors on the rare occasions they even came into Chicago on non-game nights?

The question comes to mind this weekend as Rose, the Bulls' captain and high scorer, puts together one of the great sports events to benefit the city.

Rose's charity all-star basketball game at the United Center at 3 p.m. Sunday will benefit five Chicago institutions: the Chicago Public Schools, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the Illinois Special Olympics, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, and the Juvenile Diabetes Fund.