Miami Heat guard Goran Dragic says he was “disappointed” and “sad” after hearing the news team-mate Chris Bosh failed a team medical on Saturday (AEST). Bosh has done a number of interviews with Uninterrupted – LeBron James’ digital platform – in recent weeks, saying in one of those that “nothing” would keep him off the court this season even though the discovery of blood clots ended each of his past two seasons at the All-Star break. Bosh would return the following season and return back to his form, but a blood clot was found in his leg after the 2016 All-Star.
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The Miami Heat, on the other hand, seem to disagree with him. “And, you know, we’ll finish this”, he added. Russell Westbrook is now this team’s only go-to guy, but his teammates don’t seem to be anxious about him stepping up to take a bigger leadership role – Kanter said he was already the team’s leader when Durant was on the team.
“The doctors that I work with, it’s more so just a matter of procedure. I’ve done what I need to do, working with the doctors”, Bosh said.
Benson spent last season with the HEAT’s NBA Development League affiliate, the 2016 champion Sioux Falls Skyforce, appearing in 49 games (23 starts) and averaged 13.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, 1.57 blocks and 23.8 minutes while shooting 57.3 percent from the field.
“Chris has now taken his pre-season physical”.
Early Friday morning, news broke from the Miami Herald that Miami Heat power forward and two-time National Basketball Association champion Chris Bosh had failed his team physical and would not be cleared to play heading into training camp of the 2016-17 National Basketball Association season.
Dwyane Wade, now with the Chicago Bulls, told The Associated Press on Friday that he supports Bosh, but has reservations about his former teammates’ health.
As the Heat prepare for training camp, they’ll do so without Bosh.
Since Bosh’s availability for the whole season was always a question mark, and since the Bucks have weaker depth on the wing, Middleton’s injury causes Milwaukee’s projection to take a bigger tumble.
If Bosh is still dealing with complications involving “continued clotting”, then the last thing he needs to be doing is playing pro basketball.
This Heat team – minus Wade, Bosh and veterans Joe Johnson and Luol Deng, who left the team in free agency – should look a lot like the one from late in the season when Dragic was pushing the pace.
Through it all, an apparent public-relations battle continues between Bosh and the Heat.
Bosh said that Heat team doctors told him following the second clot, which was found in his calf this past February, that his career was “likely over”.
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Bosh, the only one remaining from the Big Three that helped the Heat win back-to-back championships from 2012, still has a three-year contract worth $75.8 million.
