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Patty Mills: First day of preparing for the 2014 NBA finals: LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, and the Miami Heat. So I get to practice. You can't believe how intense this feeling is to be like, "We're back. All right, everyone, lock in." That's the feeling as you're driving the practice. Keeping it light but not too joking around. The clock is counting down before it goes off, and then we start, and sure enough, it goes off, and one of the coaches says, "All right, everyone in the film room, we're starting in the film room," which was probably understandable. So we all go into the film room, and I sit in the second row in the middle, Manu Ginobili behind me, always kicking me in the head or slapping my knee or playing some sort of game. But then we sat. So here we are, and you can feel the like the not tension in the room, but you could just feel like, all right, you know, what's the game plan here? You know, we're going to get this thing done. And Pops is at his table in front of the whiteboard and the TV, and he's looking down at the palm cards that he always has, and he looks up, and he looks at all of us, and he says, "Uh, do you know who does anyone in here know who Eddie Mabo is?" And straight away, like I got a lump in my throat, and I can only imagine what my face looked like, but I was just speechless. Is he asking everyone in the room who Eddie Mabo is? Eddie Mabo, in my culture, is a very significant person, and you put him up there with Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and those types of people, and what he was able to do in Australian history for indigenous people. He's the one who really put indigenous Australians on the map, and what he was able to do. Overturn the land rights decision. And in my head, I was like, there's no way he's asking this right now. I thought this was going to be about LeBron James and the Miami Heat.
Jorge Sierra: Nikola Vucevic is passing really great NBA players in all-time lists. Yesterday: Chris Bosh and Chris Webber (16 All-Stars combined) in scoring.
Nikola Vucevic is passing really great NBA players in all-time lists.
— HoopsHype (@hoopshype) December 28, 2025
Yesterday: Chris Bosh and Chris Webber (16 All-Stars combined) in scoring. pic.twitter.com/xNVJodmTRB
David Fizdale on Heatles: The first year LeBron James wasn't posting really. By the second year, that's when he unleashed hell on the whole league cuz he was so angry and so like full of rage that his post game and his physical nature he attacked the game with that new spacing unleashed something to him and by the end of that year we were playing Chris Bosh at the five and that's when it really transformed everything. We also were willing to mix some switching which was not a Miami Heat thing, we were like we don't switch, but we had to get uncomfortable, we had to get out of the normal if we wanted to win, cuz that team wasn't normal, and so unfortunately we suffered one (losing 2011 Finals vs. Mavs) but the the next two don't happen if the first one doesn’t.
Q. Game two of the 2011 finals. Game is tied in the final seconds. You drove to the basket for the game-winning finger roll. Who was late to help on defense? Dirk Nowitzki: Oh my god. Udonis Haslem was on the basket. Udonis Haslem: I'm going to tell you the truth. I'm going to tell you the whole story. Nowitzki: Why you do that to me? Haslem: No, I'm going to tell you the truth. Now, let me tell the story since you want to bring it up. Me and Erik Spoelstra almost got in a fist fight. That was supposed to be my defensive assignment. And right before we came out of the huddle, Spo said, "Chris Bosh, you take Dirk.” I was pissed off from that point on. Yeah, I was late cuz I should have been on Dirk the whole time.
Worse yet, Kirpicheva accuses the 41-year-old Bosh of purposefully looking the other way after a coach at his Indiana basketball camp allegedly talked his way into her hotel room and sexually assaulted her. “Defendant Christopher Bosh and the basketball camp coach who assaulted Plaintiff are close friends,” according to Kirpicheva’s complaint, which does not identify the alleged attacker by name.
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A California woman who worked as a personal assistant to former NBA star Chris Bosh is suing the Basketball Hall of Famer and his wife, claiming the two created a work environment so toxic, she now regularly suffers “debilitating panic attacks.” For starters, Olga Kirpicheva, 34, says her interactions with Bosh’s wife, Adrienne, consisted largely of “yelling,” “screaming,” and “offensive language,” according to a wide-ranging employment discrimination lawsuit obtained by The Independent.
Kirpicheva accuses the 41-year-old Bosh of purposefully looking the other way after a coach at his Indiana basketball camp allegedly talked his way into her hotel room and sexually assaulted her. “Defendant Christopher Bosh and the basketball camp coach who assaulted Plaintiff are close friends,” according to Kirpicheva’s complaint, which does not identify the alleged attacker by name.
Duane Rankin: Former Phoenix Suns owner Jerry Colangelo ('04) one of six presenters for 2008 USA Men's National Team into Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame for 2025 Class. Jim Boeheim (‘05), Chris Bosh (‘21), Jason Kidd (‘18), Mike Krzyzewski (‘01) and Dwyane Wade (‘23) remaining five presenters. Team USA won 2008 Olympic gold in China. Colangelo was managing director for USA Basketball Men’s Senior National Team program. Team USA won four consecutive Olympic gold medals during Colangelo's run as managing director. #Suns
Andrea Bargnani: Playing with Carmelo Anthony was great because I played with Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh, the two true superstars that I played with, maybe Carmelo even more than Bosh famous-wise and player-wise. It was great, I think superstars is is one of the other big difference compared to Europe. In Europe we don't have the superstar level, the superstar kind of player so being next to one of the superstars and playing with them and practice every day was a great experience, because you see what really a superstar is which is something completely different than anybody else. There was a lot of pressure.
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When asked about the big men who shaped his approach to the game, Bam Adebayo didn’t hesitate. “Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Lamar Odom… and the wild card for me was always Chris Bosh,” he said. That list, while eclectic, makes sense for a player whose game bridges eras and blends power, finesse, and versatility. Bam sees more than just stats in his idols — he sees sacrifice and substance, especially in Bosh, who made the leap from franchise centerpiece in Toronto to third option in Miami’s Big Three. “What I know now is totally different than what I thought then,” Adebayo said of Bosh. “CB came to Miami and made a sacrifice… he committed to winning over individual stats.”
Do you feel responsible for the "superteam" trend after you got LeBron James and Chris Bosh to join you in Miami? Dwyane Wade: Not responsible for a superteam. Maybe responsible for players getting together and making a decision. I don’t know what was done that preceded us. We definitely watched Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman. We definitely watched Magic Johnson play with many great Hall of Fame players. We watched Larry Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, and so forth. We’ve seen it before.
"Looking back I think you just gotta not take each day for granted because you never know when an issue could come up," he said of the last few weeks. "Obviously there’s people with way worse issues than I’ve dealt with, so I don’t want to be dramatic about it, but you just never know when something could come up and change your life. It’s been guys like Chris Bosh who dealt with this and then it’s another issue and it could be a career-ending thing so I think you just can’t take days and opportunities and things in your life for granted. That’s kind of how I look back at the experience.”
Rich Paul: I always love a big two. I don’t really love a big three. I don’t. I don’t, really. People talk big three, but I—you know, the big three thing has never really worked. And you say, 'Well, what happened in Miami?' That wasn’t really a big three. There were three guys that were winning the lottery, and they did really well individually on their team. So they put up big numbers and had big accomplishments. But when you think about it, Bosh was the ultimate professional. He took a back seat, and he played a role in which—because he had such a high IQ and he was such a professional as an individual—his approach to everything is what made that work.