It's been over half a decade since we last saw Chris Bosh play in an NBA game. Nevertheless, this fact hasn't stopped the soon-to-be Hall of Famer from envisioning himself still playing in the league. As a matter of fact, Bosh admitted that he sees himself taking a similar role as that of new Los Angeles Lakers recruit Carmelo Anthony.
Speaking to Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald, Bosh opened up about how he developed his three-point shot towards the latter part of his career. Had it not been for a life-threatening blood disease that forced him to retire, the Miami Heat legend believes that he was on a trajectory to becoming a real threat from deep:
“I was shooting like four or five threes a game in my last year in the league. So I had embraced that,” Bosh said. “I was very much so looking forward to perfecting that craft and that role and getting better at that. I just didn’t have the opportunity to do so. But, yeah, I saw myself playing for a while. Especially now, kind of like you see with the opportunity that [Carmelo Anthony] is going to have with the Lakers, just being that spot-up three-point shooter to spread the floor and play defense, stay solid and just be who you are to help the team and fill that gap.”
Chris Bosh was drafted in the NBA in 2003. This was the same draft class as Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James. Given this fact, it actually isn't impossible to think that Bosh would have been still playing to this very day had it not been for his disease.
Could he have been another addition to the Lakers' AARP squad this summer? Who knows?
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