I don't think the risks are that massively high. He has blood clots not stage 5 cancer. Playing basketball ups the risk the same way exercise strenuously would. Are we going to be so upset at him or "golds gym" because they allowed him to keep working out? Will they deny membership because of fear of backlash? No. It's his life and he can climb Mount Everest, jump off a cliff, run a triathlon, skydive, bungee jump, play basketball or whatever he wants. Our society is just so overly sensitive and we feel the desire to tell other people how to live.
Well if I'm Bosh there's no way I play and possibly die for less than max money. I can just play NBA 2k or play in the rec league lol.
Clearly the best dead rocket by career but was a bit old when he passed, I would still take Zombie Griff
He'd be crazy to believe any team would risk tying up 30-40M a year on a guy who may stop playing any moment. Come on now.
http://www.nba.com/article/2017/05/29/morning-tip-next-steps-chris-bosh-miami-heat-if-bought-out ... But, once Bosh is freed up to sign elsewhere, will there be a market for him around the league? That is the exact question I posed to more than 20 teams over the weekend -- contenders, rebuilders, also-rans, up-and-comers -- across the NBA spectrum. Obviously, if there were no health concerns about Bosh, he’d have played in Miami this season. But the 11-time All-Star would have to prove that he can not just pass a physical, but isn’t a health and financial risk to a team that signs him. The majority of front office people who gave their (anonymous, obviously) thoughts on Bosh believed that while there would be interest in him, it would be hard for any team to go after him because it would be so hard to find a doctor who would pass him on a physical. “There will be interest, but the health risks outweigh the upside for most organizations,” one Western Conference executive said. “There will surely be interest, but it may be hard to find a doctor that will clear him,” an Eastern Conference executive said. “I don't see how medical people will want to sign off and clear him,” another Western executive said. “Unless something has changed with his health recently … I don't know of a team that would want to take that type of a risk. If something were to tragically happen, it's hard to recover form that. Very unfortunate.” “There will be (interest) if his medical checks out ok, which seems doubtful at this point,” another Western Conference exec said. There have been occasions where a team has waived a player physical, and times where a team has not been able to get insurance on a player -- as when the New York Knicks signed oft-injured forward Amar’e Stoudemire to a $100 million deal in 2010. Insurance generally pays about 80 percent of an NBA player’s contract in a given year if he’s got a long-term injury, with the team on the hook for the other 20 percent. But Bosh’s situation is a lot more foreboding than a player with a bad knee. “Miami had about $50 million reasons for him to play and could not get a doctor to clear him,” another West executive said. “Very unlikely the answer will be different at a team with $0 million reasons for him to play.” A healthy Bosh would help any team, and enhance just about every team that made the playoffs. But it’s hard to find anyone in a decision-making capacity around the league that believes he’s healthy enough to take the considerable gamble. And, forget the player: Bosh is very well-liked around the league. People want him to have a healthy, happy post-playing life, and want him to get to that life without complication.
It's not that hard, find a doctor who will clear Bosh, hire that doctor, done. But in all seriousness, I hope he only plays if his body is ready.
So you responded to my post without actually reading it? Poor form. Let's try this once more.... ....Chris Bosh can do what he wants to do - no one is preventing him from anything. He wants to play in the NBA but teams don't want him. I want to play in the NBA, but teams don't want me either - for different reasons, but it's not a "right" for anyone to get to play in the NBA. Teams don't think his talent level at this stage in his career is worth the sizable risk of distraction his health causes that would ultimately hold a team back. Older players often see their productivity dip anyway but older players who have been out of the league and not physically able to play professional basketball for over a year? It's pretty much unheard of. It has nothing to do with concern for his own well being - it has everything to do with the very real way (right or wrong) that this would impact a team. Maybe his teammates don't physically compete as hard in practice when playing him or maybe some do and some don't and those factions resent each other, maybe the trainer spends his time focusing on monitoring Bosh more than his teammates, it opens up our team and staff for criticism from the media and other players/staff(again, right or wrong) for how they handle his play/minutes/injuries, it takes away focus on our team in the media, and heaven forbid something should actually happen to him, it would DOMINATE any discussion of our team. Is Chris Bosh at this stage in his career worth at very least a big distraction and at worst a complete derailment of a distraction to the good work of the rest of the team? The answer of course is no. You can get on your moral soapbox about what is or isn't "fair", but it doesn't mean anything because the FACT is regardless of the legality, morality, or fairness of it, signing Chris Bosh would be a distraction to any team that signs him(right or wrong) and as I said - successful teams avoid outside distractions. That's why no one wants to sign him despite his illustrious career. The benefit can't possibly outweigh the distraction risk.
This team is not actually competing for title unless they have their own development. So why more veterans?
Yes and no, if we'd had signed him we'd have more cap space for this summer with him being waived and we'd be able to sign pretty much whoever we wanted but as it stands Ryan Anderson has to get the **** out before anything can be done
