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I don't understand why people in the Sports world tend to not like Chris Bosh. Not only does he have a great all-around game but he got passions beyond basketball and is a family man.

Keep doing your damn thing Chris Bosh. I'm a fan.

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People who want to dislike the Heat's formation can take a quick look at his stats and see that they dropped substantially since Toronto, ignoring that he went from being by far the best player, to the third best player behind two of the best in the world. His rebounding numbers dropped, but he no longer plays down low as much, because LeBron and Wade need space there. They also ignore that he's become nearly as good as Dirk Nowitzki at long 2's, which is generally an inefficient shot (unless you hit it at the rate the two of them do), which spaces the court very effectively, especially given Miami's 3 point shooters. He redesigned his game to fit into a really unique system that has ended with them in the Finals every single year.

He then tops all of this off with really insightful thoughts for a high level athlete (not saying athletes aren't capable of this, but they unsurprisingly tend to dedicate the vast majority of their mental bandwidth towards their sport), and a fantastic sense of humor. In Toronto he ran a YouTube campaign to get support for n All Star bid (or maybe dunk contest invite?), and he's become a meme because he loves photo bombing interviews. This isn't normal HN material, but since Chris Bosh came up, please, look at this GIF at explain how you can't like him: http://slacktory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Chris-Bosh-M...

Man, the first paragraph made me think I'm at www.reddit.com/r/nba/

Although I agree with your comments I still think it's an inefficient use of his talents (stepping further outside to make room for LBJ and Wade).

Either way, I'm expecting him to have his best statistical season this year, which may mean he'll become too expensive for the Heat.

People don't like him because he decided to form a superteam with his friends. This ran completely against the old tradition of a single star leading their team through thick and thin.

They want him to be like Kevin Garnett or Shawn Kemp. Big guy, tough attitude, strong, prototypical of PF instead of "smart with spacing", "helping team in an invisible way", etc.

Doesn't matter.

He got 2 rings, 1 (gold) Olympic Medals, and knows his 1's and 0's as good as X's and O's.

No, it's not because he's quirky. It's because he loaded up at a team to take the easier road to a championship.

...and Garnett did not?

Hadn't commented on Garnett, would've preferred he stayed at the Wolves and guess he was traded anyway (for a decent project piece). Not too excited about the inequality in the league that starts to happen when stars clump for championships and smaller market teams are left overpaying for more mediocre talent.

Being in Canada, this is exactly how I feel about NBA. Toronto is not a small market but they do overpay mediocre talents... and stars left us all the time.

Bosh is awesome. I know that some Raptors fans dislike him for leaving Raptors to Heats. Before Bosh, it was Vince Carter who got some haters for leaving to Nets. Raptors fans get pretty attached to players because really good players come so rare to them.

Vince Carter is hated by Raptor fans for quitting on the team. He has since admitted to not trying while he tried to force a trade. [1] Many Raptor fans enjoy booing Vince nearly as much as cheering for a winning Raptor team.

[1]Keep in mind, this was immediately after the trade that he decided to start working harder. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/raptors...

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