Rooney also served as the US ambassador to Ireland from 2009-2012, becoming the first ambassador from the US to visit each of Ireland’s 32 counties. Family and all of the events we do, that regularly makes me smile. And Wade, in his first season with the Bulls, is going to the playoffs for the 12th time. ”“He [Westbrook] is pretty intense, a machine,” says Erwin Valencia, director of training and conditioning for the New York Knicks.