Hooped Up

Team USA is official and here are the members selected by the USA basketball comitee.

Carmelo Anthony
Carlos Boozer
Chris Bosh
Kobe Bryant
Dwight Howard
LeBron James
Jason Kidd
Chris Paul
Tayshaun Prince
Michael Redd
Dwayne Wade
Deron Williams

This is an awesome squad but, who is going to take a back seat to who and who leads this team?

Here is Chris Bosh’s debut for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night.  As I mentioned earlier this week Chris Bosh will be reporting on the finals for the The Tonight Show.   Pretty funny stuff, very scripted but funny!

Although the Toronto Raptors are not in the NBA Finals Chris Bosh is, as a member of the media.  Chris Bosh has landed a gig with The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as a NBA Finals reporter.  All that Blaine Harrington stuff has paid of and should make for some comic relief in what is sure to be an intense NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers.

Hooped Up

Here’s a bit of Chris Bosh’s chat with Canadian talk show host George Stroumboulopoulos on The Hour.  

The “A” that I’m referring to is the “A” is ESPN’s Stephen A.Smith’s name.  Over the weekend Stephen A. Smith compared Chris Bosh to Manute Bol,calling him soft.  Really? Comparing Chris Bosh to Manute Bol is like comparing one of Stephen A. Smith’s shows to any other show not canceled.  I would watch “Big Brother” before I would watch one of his shows and that show stinks! Seriously who really cares what this guy has to say about anything?

Raptors’ big man Chris Bosh swung back at Stephen A. Smith after Smith compared Bosh to former NBAer Manute Bol on Friday, the Toronto Star is reporting.

Smith criticized Bosh for playing soft and being unable to lead his team to any significant level of success, but it was not this which irked the All-Star, it was bringing Bol’s name into the criticism.

“If you have respect for someone, you expect that same respect back,” Bosh said yesterday. “If you’re a classless person like that, I mean, I guess that shows how you are, what kind of person you really are.”

“If you criticize basketball, criticize the game, criticize the team but don’t do anything personal.”

Toronto Star

I’m sure Smith’s comments were only made to try to be relevant and get another show… so it can be canceled.

All-Star Chris Bosh has admitted a lack of trust in his Raptor teammates, according to the Toronto Sun. In the team’s last two games Bosh has failed to rely on his teammates late in games, resulting in losses to the Bobcats and Nets. “I have to do a better job of trusting my teammates,” Bosh said Monday. “I’ve lacked in that and I can be man enough to say I’ve made that mistake. I’ve talked with the coaches and they told me the same thing — trust my teammates.”

The Toronto Sun

Chris Bosh was only supposed to miss a few games for the Raptors, but he continues to be sidelined with a lingering knee injury, according to the Toronto Star.

“He’s made some progress and it’s a little slower than obviously he and everyone would like,” said Bryan Colangelo.

“Was there concern last year when he had something similar? Yeah, there’s always concern. You want your players healthy, especially your best player,” Colangelo added.

Chris Bosh will miss one week of action for the Toronto Raptors because of a sore knee, according to Toronto’s FAN 590.

He will travel with the team on their three-game road trip, but will likely miss games against the Bobcats, Magic and Heat.

“Our thinking right now, unless something happens different, is not to even play him these next three games,” Mitchell told the station.

“We’ve played without Chris before, and to our guys credit we’ve found a way to win.”

In this interview Chris Bosh talks with Will Ferrell about Semi-Pro and Funny or Die, which is hilarious. The Landlord skit kills me!