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Don’t poke the bear Toronto. Has Cleveland taught you nothing?
The Big Smoke is bracing for former star Chris Bosh’s return to the Air Canada Centre for the first time he dumped the Raptors and joined LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in Miami.
The Heat are in Toronto tonight, giving nine points to the frenzied home side. But are oddsmakers selling a motivated Miami squad short?
The last time the Heat played with vengeance, LeBron shut the Q up with a 118-90 thumping as 5.5-point chalk in Cleveland on December 2. And we all know what happened to the Cavs after that.
“I’m as ready as I’ll ever be,” Bosh told the Miami Herald about his return to Toronto. “Pretty much it’s been every arena that we’ve been at — [players] have been extra motivated, fans have been extra motivated to either talk crap or cheer a little louder but I’m as ready as I’ll ever be, so bring it on.”
Bosh will get the standard jeers thrown at him, much like Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter before him, who were also tagged as quitters. Bosh is under fire for sitting out the final five games of the schedule with a facial injury last year, leaving Toronto to place one game back of Chicago for the eighth and final postseason spot in the East.
The sound of boos won’t be lost on Bosh’s teammates, who are looking to quiet the Canadian crowd in support of the former No. 4, who now sports No. 1 in South Beach.
“As a player, you don’t want to hear boos but I think it will be a little different than the boos you heard for LeBron,” Dwyane Wade told reporters. “But as teammates you always want to make sure you go get a win for your brothers, so it will be a game we’ll try to get for him.”
Nine points are not enough – Heat -9 for me.
The Big Smoke is bracing for former star Chris Bosh’s return to the Air Canada Centre for the first time he dumped the Raptors and joined LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in Miami.
The Heat are in Toronto tonight, giving nine points to the frenzied home side. But are oddsmakers selling a motivated Miami squad short?
The last time the Heat played with vengeance, LeBron shut the Q up with a 118-90 thumping as 5.5-point chalk in Cleveland on December 2. And we all know what happened to the Cavs after that.
“I’m as ready as I’ll ever be,” Bosh told the Miami Herald about his return to Toronto. “Pretty much it’s been every arena that we’ve been at — [players] have been extra motivated, fans have been extra motivated to either talk crap or cheer a little louder but I’m as ready as I’ll ever be, so bring it on.”
Bosh will get the standard jeers thrown at him, much like Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter before him, who were also tagged as quitters. Bosh is under fire for sitting out the final five games of the schedule with a facial injury last year, leaving Toronto to place one game back of Chicago for the eighth and final postseason spot in the East.
The sound of boos won’t be lost on Bosh’s teammates, who are looking to quiet the Canadian crowd in support of the former No. 4, who now sports No. 1 in South Beach.
“As a player, you don’t want to hear boos but I think it will be a little different than the boos you heard for LeBron,” Dwyane Wade told reporters. “But as teammates you always want to make sure you go get a win for your brothers, so it will be a game we’ll try to get for him.”
Nine points are not enough – Heat -9 for me.
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