Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo says Chris Bosh was "checked out" last season. Was his mind already on Miami or perhaps not facing his future teammate LeBron in the first round?
Chris Bosh is happy to be out of Toronto, that's for certain.Talking on radio station FAN 590 in Toronto, Bryan Colangelo said Bosh wasn't the same player toward the end of the year.
Colangelo said on Monday's show that whether Bosh was "mentally checked out or, you know, just wasn't quite into it down the stretch, he wasn't the same guy. And I think everybody saw that, just no one wanted to acknowledge it."
"I'm not even questioning Chris' injury. I'm telling you he was cleared to play subject to tolerance on his part, and the tolerance just apparently wasn't there and he chose not to play," he told the radio station.
Colangelo also asserted that Bosh, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade all had planned to play together years ago, even structuring their contracts so they all could become free agents together.
NBA MVP James and Bosh have joined Wade at the Miami Heat.
Said Colangelo: "This has been brewing for a while."