Heat Central: Chris Bosh speaks on getting blood clots when the Heat traded for Goran Dragic 💔 “I was still hoping I had a chance to play. That was a rough time, man. We had a young team, I wanted to continue playing ball. Not being able to do that, you feel like your body betrayed you. Very tough pill to swallow. It really sucked because I was in the hospital in the ER and preparing to take me in and I’m looking at the TV and see on ESPN we traded for Goran Dragic. As they’re wheeling me back to the thing with oxygen around my nose because they say I need it. It was like a bad dream. I was still very adamant about being a great basketball player. I still had a shot at that time but a year later it all changed… LeBron had moved on to Cleveland
so we were figuring out how to be a good team, shoot more 3s. I didn’t have time to master it the way that I wanted to” (Via nbataketwo YT)
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Chris Bosh on LeBron James: I’ve said it before, if I were him, I don't know where he's going. You know, we haven't spoken, but if I were him, I'd go to Miami. And I was joking around. I actually posted this on social, what, I think yesterday. But I was just joking around saying, "Hey, you know, when you're older, when you're ready to retire, you go to Miami." — 7/23/2026 YouTube
Heat Central: Bobby Portis on being a Heat fan his whole life, and conversations he had with Giannis about coming to Miami: “I’ve been a Heatle. I’ve been rocking with the Heat since the Mavericks and the Spurs in the finals. Ray Allen in the corner, Chris Bosh offensive rebound, pass out to the corner, bow! Everybody thought it was over with the ropes out. The conversations I had with Giannis has just always been about winning. Where can we go to win? How can we get another championship? Once you guys talk to him at 3 you’ll understand all he cares about is winning.” — 7/16/2026 x.com
Draymond Green: As it stands today, I don’t think it leaves Giannis in a much better position next year than he would’ve been with the Bucks. However, the long run I think definitely leaves them in a better position because you can build that team out. We saw even when LeBron and Chris Bosh went to the Miami Heat, that team looked a bit different the second year than the first year. Overall Giannis getting to go to one of the places he preferred to go to, I think it’s great. — 6/30/2026 YouTube
Keerthika Uthayakumar: High scoring average in a single postseason in Raptors history: Kawhi Leonard - 30.5 in 2019 Vince Carter - 27.3 in 2001 RJ Barrett - 24.1 this year Scottie Barnes - 24.1 this year Chris Bosh - 24.0 in 2008 — 6/30/2026 x.com
Leandro Barbosa: "The hours to sleep is the most important in your body, you know? You got to have that eight hours, you have to. The other thing that helps me too, I don't drink. I been around with so many players that, you know, drink a lot, a lot. I think me and Goran, we be with some players. Goran Dragic: Listen, listen, in my defense, when I signed my first contract, I was 15. I was 15. So I was in a locker room with the grown-ass men, they were smoking, they were drinking. I was like, 'Whoa,' you know? That was part of life." — 6/17/2026 YouTube
Jorge Sierra: If you combine the playoff scoring of Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh, you fall only 1.2K points short of LeBron James' overall postseason scoring. #NBABarRaces — 5/22/2026 Bluesky
As in waiting for Pat Riley and the front office to strike, Wade is more than familiar, including the first makeover with initial championship partner Shaquille O’Neal and then LeBron James and Chris Bosh being added in 2010 after two nondescript seasons, similar to the Heat’s past two. “I’ve been a player on a roster that was impatient, ready to go — because I know that my basketball life only has so much in it,” Wade said of his Heat tenure. “I’m like, ‘Yo, let’s strike, let’s strike,’ and they was like, eh, ‘No, let’s wait.’ — 5/20/2026 South Florida Sun-Sentinel
What do you think is the highlight of your career? Goran Dragic: I mean definitely winning gold medal with national team, that was the highlight of my career, even if I would have won a championship ring in the NBA, probably that still would not top it because when you represent your people, your country, it means everything to me, and that year everything came together: a young Luka first year playing together, Igor Kokoskov, the coach who I worked before in Phoenix for three, four years, and then we went to Madrid to convince Anthony Randolph. — 5/2/2026 YouTube
Top Data NBA... Live!: ?HOF?️ De vin Booker (13 points today) has passed Chris Bosh and Vinnie Johnson and is now ranked 156th all-time with 1,389 in playoffs. — 4/28/2026 x.com
Goran Dragic: “Yeah. Can I say something? You’re 31 years old, so you need to think about your knees, you know, keep them loose. So you need a warm climate, man.” Giannis Antetokounmpo: “Hey, Miami is not a bad place, man. Beautiful, beautiful city.” Host: “Beautiful city. We’ll leave it at that. We’ll leave it at that. — 4/18/2026 YouTube
As part of a Big 3 that also featured Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, James spent four seasons with the Heat from 2010 to 2014 and accomplished a lot. James won his first two NBA championships with the organization in 2012 and 2013 in four NBA Finals appearances, and was selected as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player two times while with the Heat. “I thought getting the Big 3 — Dwyane, Chris Bosh and especially LeBron — that we had finally put together what I thought could become a dynasty,” Riley, 80, said Sunday when asked during a news conference in Los Angeles what James’ four-year run with the Heat meant to him. “It was. Four trips to the Finals in a row, two world championships. It was an incredible run. And as a coach and somebody who really thought about how to build that particular team and had built it, I saw something that could have lasted eight to 10 years.” — 2/28/2026 Miami Herald
Chris Bosh: Some things change you overnight. I wrote about my experience. — 2/25/2026 Twitter @chrisbosh
Patty Mills: First day of preparing for the 2014 NBA finals: LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, and the Miami Heat. So I get to practice. You can't believe how intense this feeling is to be like, "We're back. All right, everyone, lock in." That's the feeling as you're driving the practice. Keeping it light but not too joking around. The clock is counting down before it goes off, and then we start, and sure enough, it goes off, and one of the coaches says, "All right, everyone in the film room, we're starting in the film room," which was probably understandable. So we all go into the film room, and I sit in the second row in the middle, Manu Ginobili behind me, always kicking me in the head or slapping my knee or playing some sort of game. But then we sat. So here we are, and you can feel the like the not tension in the room, but you could just feel like, all right, you know, what's the game plan here? You know, we're going to get this thing done. And Pops is at his table in front of the whiteboard and the TV, and he's looking down at the palm cards that he always has, and he looks up, and he looks at all of us, and he says, "Uh, do you know who does anyone in here know who Eddie Mabo is?" And straight away, like I got a lump in my throat, and I can only imagine what my face looked like, but I was just speechless. Is he asking everyone in the room who Eddie Mabo is? Eddie Mabo, in my culture, is a very significant person, and you put him up there with Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and those types of people, and what he was able to do in Australian history for indigenous people. He's the one who really put indigenous Australians on the map, and what he was able to do. Overturn the land rights decision. And in my head, I was like, there's no way he's asking this right now. I thought this was going to be about LeBron James and the Miami Heat. — 1/2/2026 YouTube
Goran Dragic, who finished his Heat career as one of the best point guards in franchise history, was in the Kaseya Center crowd for Jakucionis’ preseason debut on Wednesday. This came after Dragic spent time working with Jakucionis during a training camp practice in Boca Raton last week. “It means a lot to have a mentor like him and to take all the information he has,” Jakucionis said of Dragic. “He tells me all the advice, and I’m just trying to listen to him as much as I can, ask him questions. Whenever I have a question, I’ll ask him and just try to take it all in.” — 10/10/2025 Miami Herald
“He has been coming around more often,” Spoelstra said of Dragic following Wednesday’s practice. “I tried to recruit him to the coaching staff and wisely he said no. But he said he does want to help, he does want to be involved. So we’re just working with him right now to find out what the best fit will be. We’re both open to the possibilities.” One thing is for sure, Spoelstra wants Dragic to continue helping the Heat. “I just like having him around,” Spoelstra said. “He’s not just exclusively working with Kas. He has great experience. Everybody respects him. He has a great way of communicating to guys. I think he just naturally fits a mentorship role. But he can also add value to scouting and other areas. I think we’ll be able to make, hopefully, something work for both sides.” — 10/1/2025 Miami Herald
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