I'm not one to really care about how a person is off the court, but the surprise to hear about a guy with such a clean squeaky image as a deadbeat father is shocking. These PR guys really do a good job. I admit though, I don't think I'll be a fan of Chris Bosh after this, one thing I hate most, it's deadbeat fathers/mothers. http://www.thestar.com/Sports/NBA/article/607198 Raptor Bosh a deadbeat dad, lawsuit says Chris Bosh, the face of Toronto's struggling NBA franchise, is being cast in U.S. court documents as a deadbeat father who broke up with his girlfriend when she was seven months pregnant, leaving her destitute and without medical care even as she fell ill. The court documents, filed in Maryland on behalf of Bosh's former live-in girlfriend, Allison Mathis, who is seeking child support and sole custody, allege that in early 2008 Mathis and Bosh planned to get married. According to the filings, whose allegations have been denied by Bosh, they made a consensual decision to have a child together and Bosh, who is earning a salary of $14.4 million (U.S.) this season, paid for a fertility drug to hasten the process. Not long after Mathis conceived – at last year's NBA all-star weekend in New Orleans, according to a sworn affidavit signed by Mathis – the couple moved into a jointly owned $1.6 million home in Frisco, Tex. But upon Bosh's return from the Beijing Olympics in August of last year, the player signalled his intention to, according to the complaint, "move on" from the relationship. With Mathis seven months pregnant it is alleged Bosh stopped supporting her financially and attempted to have her removed from their home. Without money to pay for her obstetrician appointments, let alone a means of transportation to attend them, Mathis, according to the documents, suffered "breakthrough bleeding and a constantly upset stomach" while utility companies threatened to disconnect her electricity, gas and water. According to the filings, Mathis returned to the Maryland suburbs of Washington, where she had grown up, to live with her mother in a two-bedroom apartment; was admitted to hospital due to complications in the pregnancy; and delivered the baby by emergency C-section on Nov. 2. Four-month-old Trinity Meyers Mathis, according to the documents, has laid eyes on her father but twice, both times in his hotel room when the Raptors were in town to face the Wizards. The complaint, which contains allegations that have not been proven in court, says Bosh contested his paternity before genetic testing determined a 99.97 per cent probability that he is Trinity's father. Bosh, who turns 25 today, did not return a request for comment yesterday. Said Vincent Wills, Bosh's Maryland-based attorney: "Obviously Chris denies all the allegations in the complaint. We're going to be filing our response to the filing within the next week or so." The case, perhaps, is the missing piece in explaining a sometimes puzzling decline in the on-court performance of Bosh and the Raptors. Bosh, an iconic figure in Toronto and beyond known both for his athletic prowess and his gift for starring in viral Internet videos, was proclaiming himself a candidate for league MVP in the midst of a stellar November. But Mathis filed suit on Nov. 26, 2008, and, not long after, Bosh and the Raptors fell into an abyss. Bosh, who averaged 26 points a game on 54 per cent shooting in November, averaged 21 points a game on 44 per cent shooting in December, and the team he leads, after putting together a win-loss record of 8-8 in October and November, went 4-12 for December, a stretch of abysmal play that saw coach Sam Mitchell fired and a hotly anticipated season began to disintegrate into its current tatters. Mathis, 28, met Bosh in 2005 and was a hard-to-miss courtside fixture for most of the previous couple of seasons. Once a personal chef to the Dallas Cowboys, according to the filings, she was for a while Bosh's near-constant companion. Last year she sported a sizeable ring on the finger usually reserved for matrimonial promises even as Bosh denied an engagement, and she became something of a public figure when LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers all-star, cited her courtside trash-talking as a motivating factor in James's 39-point outpouring in a Cleveland win at the Air Canada Centre. The video of Mathis jawing with James was shown on highlight loops around the continent. "(Mathis) got more (TV) time than me and Bosh," James said after that game. Mathis did not return a call seeking comment yesterday. Said Lois Finkelstein, Mathis's Maryland attorney: "We will reserve our comments for the court." The complaint against Bosh speaks of Mathis's bleak existence since she left the couple's Texas home last summer. "(Mathis's) expenses are mounting both for her and (Trinity), but she has no way to satisfy these obligations," it states. "(Mathis) has asked (Bosh) to assist with these expenses, but he has failed and refused to do so ... (despite) his overwhelming ability to do so." Though Bosh remained silent yesterday, he has spoken periodically of his "trying" season, and club insiders have whispered allusions to "off-court stuff" to explain his inconsistencies. In hindsight, he appears to have taken some public joy in fatherhood, albeit cryptically. On Jan. 7, the day of Bosh's alleged first meeting with his daughter in that D.C. hotel room, the Raptors captain posted an effusive message on Twitter, the micro-blogging site to which he is a frequent contributor, which belied his professional struggles and his personal turmoil. "I'm on top of the world right now," went Bosh's tweet. "I've seen the new light!"
If he had legitimate reasons to believe the child wasn't his, it's hard to blame him for cutting ties with the mother. Also, the article wasn't clear about how long ago the paternity test was, so it may be that he has had no contact with the child because he didn't think it was his until very recently.
even though he is a great talent i've never liked bosh did he go to the karl malone school of parenting? it doesnt seem at least from this article that mathis was someone who purposefully got herself pregnant with bosh so that there would always be a stream of cash coming in. they must have had some sort of meaningful and long term relationship if she lived with him and was always seen with him at games and the such. i dont get people at times i mean these are your kids after all
He knows and admits he's the father....he's been with her for a while. The fact that she got sick (when pregnant with his child) and he didn't help is sad, furthermore she calims he doesn't visit his own daughter?! This is a guy with daddy issues..... (I'm assuming here that his x is teling the truth, I don't see why she would lie)
Wow, not something I would expect to hear about Bosh. I'll wait to see his formal response before I make anymore conclusions. But it would be very sad and pathetic if true. And I remember watching that Tor/Cle game where she was jawing w/ Lebron. She would yell in Lebron's ear when he had possession in front of her. Near the end of the game he was on fire, making and taking shot after shot and immediately looking over at her. There was a conversation every time he came back down that side of the court. The Raptors fans should've booed her after the game for challenging Lebron. Very entertaining.
His official response. http://www.thestar.com/sports/article/607449 Raptors star Bosh says he'll 'take care of responsibilities' With his private life laid bare for the world to see from court filings in the United States, Toronto Raptors star Chris Bosh said today he will "take care of my responsibilities." On his 25th birthday, Bosh awoke to a Toronto Star story detailing his bitter fight with a former lover over his financial matters and the couple's months-old daughter. Bosh is being cast in U.S. court documents as a deadbeat father who broke up with his girlfriend when she was seven months pregnant, leaving her destitute and without medical care even as she fell ill. Speaking to a crowd of reporters after the team practiced this morning, Bosh, as expected, wouldn't comment specifically on the allegations. "All I can say is I'm going to take care of my responsibilities," he said. "I ask everybody to respect my wish to keep everything private," he said. "I love my daughter, I love myself (and) I respect her mother."
i dont know to me he seems like he wants to run away from being responsible. But WHY would you commit to have a child and being responsible for it????
This part doesn't make sense: Bosh, they made a consensual decision to have a child together and Bosh, who is earning a salary of $14.4 million (U.S.) this season, paid for a fertility drug to hasten the process. He wants to have a kid then doesn't? I am think he went to Beijing, she cheated on him and then he was just pissed at her. Or maybe he cheated, who knows, In any case she has him for 18 years.
It's not. It was very entertaining. I enjoyed it. But if I were a fan of the Raptors, I would've booed her because you could tell Lebron made it a point to go Wolverine-berserker mode on the Raptors just to shut her up. She was laughing it up the whole time. It was a very close game but Lebron put it away just for her. She didn't seem to care.
This part caught my eye too, simply because I can't see any 24 year old NBA basketball player making a consensual decision to have a child. I'm sure she wanted to get knocked up by him so she cement her spot on the gravy train. I can't see an intelligent person sitting down and making the decision to father a child, with his gf, in the middle of his career. He's just stuck with his foot in his mouth and a hole in his pocket for requesting tests that didn't come back the way he had suspected. Then again maybe he's just a huge douche.
In fairness to Bosh, these are one-sided filings seeking child custody and financial support. The attorney for the woman is seeking the maximum child support possible. The attorney is paid to win. There's a reason a lot of divorcing couples in similar situations later file to have their divorce records sealed: things get said that shouldn't be said. Little Jimmy doesn't need to read twenty years later that his father accused his mother of banging the Neighborhood Watch alliance, and that his mother accused his father of being a coke-addled prostitue monger. Truths are stretched, often to the point of breaking, to paint the contestants in the best lights possible, and their opponents in the worst. This is only one side of the story (likely leaked to the press to threaten Chris Bosh's future endorsement deals). Child custody/support is hardball.
Here is the SportsCenter video: LeBron James vs Chris Bosh's Girlfriend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3riCj4U4mNo
