SAS: Bosh Broke Up the "Dream Team" in Miami

[Doc]

Stephen A. Smith just reaffirming that Bosh wanting a maximum contract is the reason why we likely won't see a team consisting of LeBron, Wade and Bosh anytime soon.

<a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=13111223-da5f-43da-8971-b2c170c78e46" target="_new" title="">FSR: Smith talks free agency</a>

[Sam]

Is SAS says it, we know it isn't so.

[Hassan]

leave it to chris bosh to be the high class escort

[Apollo]

I never seen any class in how Bosh operated this past month.

[Realist]

Is SAS says it, we know it isn't so.

It's not just SAS, multiple reports have said Bosh is the one who wants the money. He doesn't give two shits about winning, it's all about branding for that soft, overrated, stat-padding diva.

[Doc]

Is SAS says it, we know it isn't so.

While I would normally agree with you, the ground work on how Smith explained everything up until this point it in his interview does make alot of sense right now. So, that being said SAS might actually have all his duck's in a row for a change.

[Maleko]

Good.

Wouldn't like that team anyway but would have been nice to see the egos and styles clash and they fail to win a championship.

[Tim W.]

I never seen any class in how Bosh operated this past month.

The question is, did Wade and LeBron demand the max and ask Bosh to come in for less? I love how everyone is now assuming the worst whatever the rumour may be.

[Doc]

The question is, did Wade and LeBron demand the max and ask Bosh to come in for less? I love how everyone is now assuming the worst whatever the rumour may be.

Regardless of whatever the rumour may be, LeBron and Wade are certainly worth the max so if Bosh feels slighted because they wanted him to take less then he's delusional if he feels he's worth the same.

[Macc]

The question is, did Wade and LeBron demand the max and ask Bosh to come in for less? I love how everyone is now assuming the worst whatever the rumour may be.

No, both LeBron and Wade were willing to take pay cuts (5-years 100mil, I think) as SAS said, but Bosh is insisting on getting the maximum, which is why it can't happen, at least for now.

[Tim W.]

Regardless of whatever the rumour may be, LeBron and Wade are certainly worth the max so if Bosh feels slighted because they wanted him to take less then he's delusional if he feels he's worth the same.

No, both LeBron and Wade were willing to take pay cuts (5-years 100mil, I think) as SAS said, but Bosh is insisting on getting the maximum, which is why it can't happen, at least for now.

This is amazing. First, most guys are jumping on Bosh for wanting to team up on a "Dream Team", now you're criticizing him for breaking it up. This goes back to my earlier thread about how Bosh is in a no win situation with fans.

First, If Joe Johnson and Rudy Gay got the max, I can understand Bosh feeling slighted if he's expected not to get that.

And if Bosh wants to get the maximum amount of money, who are we to criticize him for it? He's not hamstringing an entire franchise who won't be able to win with such an unwieldy contract. And if Bosh were truly committed to playing both Wade and Bosh, I'm sure he'd take less money. He's obviously not.

Even more annoying than the way Bosh has been acting throughout this process is the behaviour of Raptor fans who seem to want him to act only the way they want him to, and how when he doesn't he's suddenly the most hated Raptor outside of Vince Carter.

You're all taking this crap way too personally. He's a friggin' basketball player. He's not even someone any of you know personally. Following basketball is one thing, but getting caught up in this crap just seems far too tiresome and pointless for my taste.

[Doc]

You're all taking this crap way too personally. He's a friggin' basketball player. He's not even someone any of you know personally. Following basketball is one thing, but getting caught up in this crap just seems far too tiresome and pointless for my taste.

This isn't a matter of taking it personal, we're fans and passionate fans have the right to be pissed off. If we didn't care, then we wouldn't support our teams. And without support these guys don't make a salary. (figuratively) So, I'm not taking it personal but like you I'm entitled to an opinion and my opinion is that Christopher shouldn't be categorized in the same breathe as Wade and LeBron and how he's handled this offseason so far is beyond ridiculous. I don't care if teams want to overpay for Johnson, Amare or Gay. That's their problem. The issue here seems to be that if Miami and these 3 guys want this idea to come to fruition, then someone's going to have to take one for the team because it just won't be feasible. Out of those 3 players, who warrants the smallest contract? Bosh

Quite frankly, Bosh brought the attention to himself. Either way, he going to get paid so I don't feel sorry for him in the slightest.

[Bendit]

This is amazing. First, most guys are jumping on Bosh for wanting to team up on a "Dream Team", now you're criticizing him for breaking it up. This goes back to my earlier thread about how Bosh is in a no win situation with fans.

First, If Joe Johnson and Rudy Gay got the max, I can understand Bosh feeling slighted if he's expected not to get that.

And if Bosh wants to get the maximum amount of money, who are we to criticize him for it? He's not hamstringing an entire franchise who won't be able to win with such an unwieldy contract. And if Bosh were truly committed to playing both Wade and Bosh, I'm sure he'd take less money. He's obviously not.

Even more annoying than the way Bosh has been acting throughout this process is the behaviour of Raptor fans who seem to want him to act only the way they want him to, and how when he doesn't he's suddenly the most hated Raptor outside of Vince Carter.

You're all taking this crap way too personally. He's a friggin' basketball player. He's not even someone any of you know personally. Following basketball is one thing, but getting caught up in this crap just seems far too tiresome and pointless for my taste.

The way most Raptor fans want him to act is with a quiet and mature professionalism (nice Canadian traits!) while conducting this free agency period which all concede is a personal milestone in his professional career. Joe Johnson, Rudy Gay, Wade and even James have been circumspect and fairly to mostly muted publicly about their positions. Apart from the fact this is just good business practice when conducting contract negotiations it diminishes the prospect of attracting the type of fan reaction now on display. You may not like it but there is no accounting for the level of the fanatic in fandom! There is also the very real possibility that Bosh may have diminished his value thus hurting the Rap franchise in their quite reasonable expectations for some decent trade return.

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[Tim W.]

This isn't a matter of taking it personal, we're fans and passionate fans have the right to be pissed off. If we didn't care, then we wouldn't support our teams. And without support these guys don't make a salary. (figuratively) So, I'm not taking it personal but like you I'm entitled to an opinion and my opinion is that Christopher shouldn't be categorized in the same breathe as Wade and LeBron and how he's handled this offseason so far is beyond ridiculous. I don't care if teams want to overpay for Johnson, Amare or Gay. That's their problem. The issue here seems to be that if Miami and these 3 guys want this idea to come to fruition, then someone's going to have to take one for the team because it just won't be feasible. Out of those 3 players, who warrants the smallest contract? Bosh

Quite frankly, Bosh brought the attention to himself. Either way, he going to get paid so I don't feel sorry for him in the slightest.

I don't think any of those guys are on the same level as LeBron and Wade, but let's, for a moment, consider that it will be LeBron and Wade who are being "underpaid" and not Bosh who would be overpaid. There are enough guys who Bosh is better than or on the same level as making at or close to the max so that saying Bosh doesn't deserve it simply doesn't make sense. Quite frankly, NONE of them deserve it, but the fact of the matter is that those guys make that amount of money and the NBA has a hard salary cap for players, so guys like LeBron will never make market value. Unless the NBA changes the salary structure to a tiered system or some other system that takes out the market value of a player out of play, guys like Bosh are going to make the max and guys like LeBron are never going to earn (on the court) the kind of contracts they could.

And apart from a few tweets here and there, I really haven't noticed an inundation of Chris Bosh except coming from the media. He's filming, yes, but has he gone on Larry King (oh, wait. That was LeBron) or overexposed himself in other ways? Maybe I haven't paid attention, but I find most of the Bosh hype is generated by rumours and the media. Not Bosh himself.

[Quixotic]

This isn't a matter of taking it personal, we're fans and passionate fans have the right to be pissed off.

This may be true and is fine with me, but do fans have the right to be two-faced? Both Miami and Chicago can sign all three to max deals if they really wanted, so are we really feeling bad for them not being able to stack the deck even more just because it gives us another reason to hate on Bosh?