Last word (for now) on Chris Bosh
Chris Bosh, undoubtedly brimming with joy and confidence about his new lease on life in the land of fake breasts, indicated to the Miami Herald in a Sunday story that Toronto “smelled different” because it wasn’t in the United States. Now I’ve written about all I can stomach about the U.S. player/Toronto team thing, so I’ll leave it alone. However, the article’s writer, Israel Gutierrez, takes the usual absent-minded digs that many American journalists fall victim to, specifically saying that the league didn’t notice Bosh because he played in Toronto.
Didn’t notice? Wasn’t that Chris Bosh who did a week of hits on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno (before Leno screwed Conan) during the 2008 NBA Finals? Wasn’t that Chris Bosh who was voted by NBA fans to start the 2007 All-Star Game? The next thing they’ll tell us is Vince Carter left T.O. for better endorsements with the Nets, which isn’t true. After Vince left, I didn’t see his jersey in Fat Joe videos, like it was when he played here. But people have short (or no) memories.
Aah, to be a fan in the frozen tundra.
Bryan Colangelo took his shots at Bosh to Bob McCown on the FAN 590 Monday, admitting what was clear at the time, that he mentally checked out on the team down the stretch. In retrospect, it really was pathetic. After a rough March 26 loss to Denver on a last-second Carmelo Anthony jumper, I was in the locker room scrum and the Star’s Dave Feschuk was grilling him on his recent rash of turnovers. Bosh, in his laconic speaking style, just kept shrugging and mumbling. It sort of reminded of the time Shaq called him the “RuPaul of big men,” and he responded in a YouTube video by just giggling like someone to afraid to make a meaningful statement.
