[Sports] NBA All-Star Chris Bosh Out for Rest of Season

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Heat say Chris Bosh will miss remainder of the season
From Yahoo News

MIAMI (AP) -- Not even a week ago, Chris Bosh was talking about how eager he was to get home in an effort to turn the Miami Heat's season around.

The All-Star forward's season is over, with the Heat announcing Saturday that - as suspected - blood clots were found on one of his lungs. The problem, if it had not been caught, could have killed the 30-year-old Bosh, who had been fighting pain in his side and back for several days.

''He was able to get in front of it early,'' Heat guard Dwyane Wade said, adding that Bosh's wife, Adrienne, encouraged him to get checked out when the problem wouldn't subside. ''That's the good thing that helps all of us sleep at night.''

The team said Bosh ''is receiving care under the guidance of Miami Heat team physicians'' at a hospital, adding that ''his prognosis is good.''

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra sounded upbeat about Bosh's road to recovery. The team received the news Saturday morning, Spoelstra said, and welcomed the clarity after a frightening couple of days.

''His health will be restored,'' Spoelstra said before Miami played host to New Orleans. ''That's the most important thing. That's bigger than basketball.''

Spoelstra and Wade visited Bosh on Saturday.

''It's been very emotional for all of us,'' Spoelstra said. ''I was in constant contact with CB. But he didn't know either until they were able to go through all the tests and see all the specialists. ... I can't imagine how tough it was for Chris and Adrienne.''

Bosh is the second NBA player whose final game this season was the All-Star Game. New York's Carmelo Anthony was shut down for knee surgery earlier in the week, a move that was long expected.

Bosh's situation was anything but. It was nothing short of a shock to the Heat, who entered Saturday with a 23-30 record and holding onto the No. 7 spot in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

Losing him becomes the latest - and by far the biggest - blow in a season filled with tumult for the Heat, reminiscent in some ways to when All-Star center Alonzo Mourning was forced to miss most of Miami's 2000-01 season because of a kidney disease that eventually necessitated a transplant.

Mourning was able to return, and helped the Heat win the 2006 NBA title. Spoelstra stressed that any talk of when Bosh can resume play can wait.

''We're not even thinking about that right now,'' Spoelstra said. ''The most important thing is he'll be healthy again. We'll get a game plan as we continue to get more information.''

Bosh averaged 21.1 points and 7 rebounds for the Heat this season, his first in a five-year deal signed this past summer that will pay him $118 million.

Bosh was part of the ballyhooed free-agent haul Miami landed in 2010, when he and LeBron James were brought in to play alongside Wade and form one of the most star-studded trios in league history.

They were together four seasons, the breakup coming this past summer when James elected to go back to Cleveland. They went to the NBA Finals four times, winning two rings, the second of those in 2013 when Bosh made two plays that will forever be etched in Heat history.

On the 3-pointer that Ray Allen hit with 5.2 seconds left of Game 6 of that year's NBA Finals against San Antonio, it was Bosh who fended off Manu Ginobili for the offensive rebound and found Allen backtracking toward the right corner for the tying shot. And to end that game, Bosh blocked Danny Green's potentially game-tying 3-point try as the overtime clock expired.

Those were the glory days. This year has been a far cry, one where the Heat have constantly fought injury and illness, with a constant string of different lineups being assembled.

[onionboys]

Right after they get Goran Dragic

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Right after they get Goran Dragic

With how bad the east is they should be able to sneak into the playoffs anyways.

[onionboys]

Right after they get Goran Dragic

With how bad the east is they should be able to sneak into the playoffs anyways.

Doubt it, they gave 4+ people away a few days back. All they got in return was dragic


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Doubt it, they gave 4+ people away a few days back. All they got in return was dragic


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The Brooklyn Nets at 22-31 are the eight seed right now, getting to the playoffs isn't even a problem for a team like the heat.

[onionboys]

Who's going to replace his 20 + points a game and 7+ rebounds a game


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Who's going to replace his 20 + points a game and 7+ rebounds a game


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Dragic averages 16 and Whiteside can be relied on more than usual. Anyways the east is still so horrid they can still make it to the eight seed with just Wade.