Chris Bosh: "Really, it's all about being on TV"

[Built Ford Tough]

“Really, it’s all about being on TV at the end of the day,” Bosh said Tuesday. “Seriously. A guy can average 20 (points) and 10 (rebounds), and nobody really cares. If you don’t see it (on TV), then it doesn’t really happen.”

 

http://www.thestar.com/sports/basketball/nba/article/881386--feschuk-bosh-revels-in-the-heat-of-the-spotlight?bn=1

 

Interesting quote from Bosh. I do think it could've been taken out of context to create a story, but regardless of the context, these kinds of comments should probably be kept to yourself, at least as far as I am concerned. No matter what you mean by it, people are always going to come to the worst possible conclusions.

 

Then again, it's pretty hard not to jump to conclusions with a comment like this.

 

Bosh will certainly get his wish, though.

[Cleveland's Finest]

I saw him on TV during the playoffs, and my jaw wasn't exactly dropping.

[Nitro]

He's right, it happens all the time. People will dismiss what he says and just label him an attention-seeking whore (which, to be fair, he is), but look at a guy like Pau Gasol; I remember literally a month before he was traded to the Lakers I was arguing with someone on another website about how he'd be an awesome addition to the Nets (who were rumored to be discussing a deal with the Grizzlies at the time). The guy I was arguing with, who clearly had little to no knowledge of his game, wouldn't even want to trade RJ for him straight-up. Very few people had knowledge of his game and what he brought to the table because Dirk, Duncan,and Amare were getting more national TV exposure in 2 weeks than Gasol was getting all year. A few years later, it's a popular opinion to call Gasol the best PF in the league, even though he's basically the same player, just a little tougher.

 

TV exposure does wonders.

Edited October 26, 2010 by Nitro

[ImOnFire15]

Well he's right.

[Real Deal]

He forgot to add the part, "You get on TV by leading your team to 50-win seasons."

 

Kevin Durant averaged more points (25) than he won games (23) in the 2008-09 season. Nobody cared, right? However, when he dropped 30 a game and won 50 games last year, all eyes shifted to his game and his team.

 

Bosh thinks people are dumb. I know what Monta Ellis did last year. I know what Danny Granger is capable of. I know that Tyreke Evans put up a season that few rookies have ever accomplished. Their play doesn't exactly reflect their records.

 

The casual fan, yes, they would have trouble identifying those players' abilities because they never see them play, and they could care less about the bottom half of the league.

 

So, if Bosh is worried about the casual fan, he's got a point...but then again, he's in Miami. Why does he care about the casual fan today? Not only that, but being the only team in Canada, the Raptors do get quite a bit of attention from the fans in that area. People did recognize him as a top power forward in the league last year (maybe even casual fans). Technically, this is a guy that should not be considered a superstar, yet the talk of "three superstars getting together in Miami" was running wild all offseason.

 

Why does he even talk?

[Built Ford Tough]

Dave Feschuk, a writier for the Toronto Star, kind of ripped into Bosh for these comments. Here is just some of what he wrote:

 

Bosh’s take would be comical if it wasn’t such a slap in the face to his former franchise and its loyal supporters. Nobody really cared about his work in Toronto, of course, except a tremendous Southern Ontario fan base that kept its faith in Bosh even after he failed, and failed again, and failed again, to deliver even the most rudimentary of post-season payoffs.

 

Nobody really cared except a franchise that paid Bosh a total of about $56 million (U.S.) in salary. Nobody really cared except a global audience that voted him to the starting lineup of an NBA All-Star Game. Nobody really cared except the U.S. Olympic team, which gave him a spot in its golden first five on the strength of his Toronto-based performance.

 

And as for the inference that the lack of interest from the U.S. network and cable programmers was strictly geographical, it, like most of what’s been coming out of Bosh’s mouth since he started hanging around LeBron James and Dwyane Wade — following Wade around “like a lapdog” is how Stan Van Gundy, the Orlando coach, saw one of those friendships this summer — is wrong-headed.

 

It’s almost too obvious to have to point out, but as one NBA insider noted, to earn a big-time TV billing, an all-star has to be a dynamic performer or a winner, and preferably both. Bosh was neither. He was the maximum-salary centrepiece who won precisely three career playoff games. And while playing in Canada doesn’t necessary help one’s cause in landing on U.S. TV — ratings don’t cross borders, after all — the Raptors found themselves there frequently when a dunk champ named Vince Carter was their best player and they actually won a playoff series.

 

Van Gundy called him a lapdog. Bosh certainly is no alpha dog. And when you think of it that way, it’s easy to understand why he is trying to convince the world his time in Toronto never happened. But by lifting his leg on a city and a franchise that embraced him despite his faults, a once-revered Raptor has continued soiling a career’s worth of goodwill in the name of attention-seeking delusion.

 

http://www.thestar.com/sports/basketball/nba/raptors/article/882160--feschuk-in-world-according-to-bosh-raptors-opener-never-happened

 

Edited October 28, 2010 by Built Ford Tough

[Clutch]

if bosh impacted the team like vince did (basically put toronto on the map) he would've been on TV more often

[Check my Stats]

Basically he would rather put up role player type stats in Miami than be the face of a franchise. I mean, I could understand if he went somewhere to be Robin, but to be Alfred? C'mon son.