Dino fans just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse for the lowly Raps it seems like it has. You may be thinking how on earth it could possibly get any worse, well apparently Chris Bosh isn’t too happy in T.O. and wants to skip out of town.
ESPN’s controversial reporter Stephen A. Smith was the man to break the news and wouldn’t back down on his statements when Chris Bosh and Brian Colangelo both came out and publicly denied the reports.
Is it just me or did I just get a little déjà vu? Let’s go back in time a few years to the early days of the Raptors. Does this remind anybody of the time when Damon Stoudamire, Chauncy Billups, Marcus Camby and a certain Mr. Vince Carter all denied the rumours that they wanted out of town and then jumped ship as soon as a deal was hammered out? or in Carter’s case when the Raptors finally decided to stop pampering the little princess’s damaged goods.
Now I can understand why those guys wanted out of town, because let’s face it when Stoudamire, Camby and Billups were around the Raptors were definitely not a team to write home about. That was all supposed to change though when Carter came around and for a while it looked like things had. However, that was short lived as Tracy McGrady was just the latest superstar to jump ship because he was tired of living in Cousin Carter’s shadow.
Can you just imagine what kind of teams T.O. could have had if those players decided to man up and stick around, does the word dynasty ring a bell for anybody?
As for Bosh, the man’s a super star! However his contract does expire at the end of the 2009-2010, which is conveniently the same year as Lebron James and Dwayne Wade are scheduled to become free agents.
But does it really matter where Bosh goes? He is a super-star and he’s going to be the best player on whatever team he goes too, well unless he joins ranks with James, Wade or Bryant. But what team could afford that kind of cash?
The real question is what is Brian Colangelo willing to do to keep this stud in a Dino’s jersey? Yeah this season has been a major disappointment, but that’s life in sports you don’t always get the win even if your team is better on paper.
The bottom line is that the fans here in T.O. love Bosh and are passionate about their team, even when they are under performing. If Bosh is to leave in a couple years time it would be the biggest loss the team has suffered in its short tenure, but we can always count on Bosh to have class. Unlike Carter, Bosh has a lot more pride for himself and respect for this city to leave under the same circumstances as Carter did.
If Bosh does leave in a couple years can any of us really say we didn’t see it coming? The guy was projected to be an all-star early on in his career so with Toronto’s history of being able to keep high profile ballers it was really only a matter of time.
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