Sunday, June 27, 2010

While everything depends upon LeBron James, there have been two subtle indicators about what Chris Bosh intends to do.
Assuming that James decides to stay home -- and he has set himself up to do that by requiring suitors to come to him, therebye, eliminating the likelihood that he will make an impulsive decision based upon the accoutrements being offered to him in New York and Miami -- the likely destinations for Bosh are Chicago, Toronto or New York in that order.
Why? Because Bosh says he doesn't want to be a sidekick and that's definitely what he would be if he lands in either Miami, LA, Houston or, improbably, Cleveland.
My thought is that it will be Chicago.
The indicators are: 1) Bosh doesn't want to be a sidekick; 2) he announced some time ago that he wouldn't be working out for the U.S. team. That was a clear indicator that he didn't plan on resigning with Toronto, or at best that he won't do it unless the Raptors come up with a suitable support cast.
He can't try out for the U.S. squad unless he has a long-term max contract in place in the event that he injures himself.
I think New York is a lesser option than Toronto because it doesn't seem likely that it will have enought of a supporting cast to make the Knicks a contender.
Toronto may be able to pull it off by trading Turkoglu, Calderone and some other spare parts for a suitable number two or three go-to-player.
But that will only transpire once other options have expired for Bosh.
I suspect that in addition to landing Bosh, the Bulls could also sign Joe Johnson. Those two, along with Noah and Rose would make for a formidable lineup and Bosh would be a, if not the, feature player. Something he would never be with Wade or James.

1 comment:

  1. By Jingo, Mr. Sports Coat-ruffian, this is a CAPITAL blog! Your insights are well worthy of following regularly, and I shall do just that, providing that cow of a librarian doesn't hurry me off the computing machine, just because I may have overstayed the 30-minute limit by a tad. She has no right to prevent a fellow from savoring the sagacity of the Sports "Cont", if I may be so familiar, and if she persists in this sort of thing, someone just may give her what-for! That being said, did you really mean to infer that there is a professional sportsman named Bosh? I don't see how that could be. Back in the Cotswolds village where I was reared, one spoke of Bosh if one intended to be dismissive of the other chap's viewpoints. Bosh, indeed. Keep up the otherwise authoritative posts, and consider this a proper bit of encouragement, do.

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