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Chris Bosh to Rockets?
With Yao's foot injury poised to cause him to potentially miss all of next season (or longer), the Rockets are said to be considering making a strong move to acquire Chris Bosh, either via a trade or when he hits free agency in 2010. The Rockets have as much cap room as just about anyone for 2010 and beyond, so they would be poised to make the Dallas native a serious offer. (Houston Chronicle)

I think Bosh would be a good fit for our scrappy, up-tempo team without Yao. (Bosh is a Texan) Who would we have to give up to get him though?

Assuming Toronto won't take Yao or McGrady, you'd have to give up Battier, Scola, Brooks and Hayes to equal Bosh's salary.

There is the possibility that he will be a one year rental since there is a chance he will bolt to go play with Lebron in 2010.

Richard Justice may have a man-crush on Bosh,but there are two issues to remember.
1)He has consistantly stated he wants to play the 4,that he's not a Center. As a companion to Yao,great,as a replacement,nope.
2)He's a Gasol-type complementary star.(Sorry Moofs.) He needs to be second banana to an elite player. He couldn't get Toronto into the Playoffs in the weak East.

Absolutely love Chris Bosh. The only problem is if Toronto signs Hedo, Bosh may be willing to stay with the Raptors.

The other side to that is, Portland is the other huge player for Hedo.

I guess if I had a choice, I'd rather have Hedo sign with Toronto to keep the Blazers away from him. Which means the Raptors won't move him.

Bosh will have to sign an extension with the Raptors before he gets traded to any team. A one-year rental is highly unlikely.

I don't think Bosh is going to stay in Toronto, thereby forcing the Raptors organization to trade him before the next off-season. I'm not a fan of Bosh but if Morey thinks he's a franchise player and is worthy of receiving a max contract then he should go after him.

tisbee wrote:Richard Justice may have a man-crush on Bosh,but there are two issues to remember.
1)He has consistantly stated he wants to play the 4,that he's not a Center. As a companion to Yao,great,as a replacement,nope.
2)He's a Gasol-type complementary star.(Sorry Moofs.) He needs to be second banana to an elite player. He couldn't get Toronto into the Playoffs in the weak East.

I don't disagree??

I was talking about this with a friend of mine yesterday and supposeably he says that Bosh wants to go to Texas. If I'm Morey I look to make that move. We gotta take a chance. T-Mac's stint with Houston is more than likely finished unfortuantley and Yao is a huge question mark right now.

Do you pull the trigger on a Battier, Brooks, & Landry for Bosh and filler? Seems steep. Idk im torn.

Isn't Chris from Dallas? If he wants to come back to Texas, Houston is his best option considering that the other two major cities already have established franchise players at the power forward position.

I doubt anything happens, I think other teams can offer more (ex. Warriors offering Biedrins, Wright, and possibly Azubike) would probably be a better rebuilding package than we could offer, since they already have Calderon at PG (thus lesser interest in Brooks) and Biedrins being a better prospect than we can even come close to offering. And I think they'd only trade Bosh for either another LEGIT star that they can continue to try to win now, or pack it in and retool for the future. I don't think we have the pieces to offer for either direction the Raptors choose to go in.

Moofs,
- NBA players aren't indefinite nouns. There is no "a Lebron James", only "LeBron James"

and I used phrase "a Gasol-type"

Ohhh no that's more in reference to "we need to get a Kobe Bryant type of player" crap that gets posted all the time. You were referring to complementary stars and just used Pau as an example, perfectly legit!

I wouldn't trade for him. I'd try and sign him in 2010.

tisbee wrote:Moofs,
- NBA players aren't indefinite nouns. There is no "a Lebron James", only "LeBron James"

and I used phrase "a Gasol-type"

Oh snap.

I can take the rest of the summer off. Moofs, go have your gay-fest with this guy.

He's terribly clever.