The Miami Heat are on top of the Southeast Division at 5-2 and the news and rumors have been coming out.
Check out the latest buzz below.
Bosh Shedding ‘Soft’ Label
Chris Bosh is steadily shedding the label of being “soft,” reported the Miami Herald.
“Bosh isn’t soft. The opposite is true, actually, and he is proving it now in more conventional ways in his new, leading role with the Heat,” it said.
Bosh is among the league leaders in rebounds and is averaging 23.6 points and 10.3 rebounds.
“I told people I could rebound a long time ago — I told people that,” Bosh said.
“Then they’re going to be crazy when, ‘Oh, he can rebound now?’ But I told you I could rebound a long time ago. It’s just because my numbers were down, I told people the math, and they were like, ‘Ah, get out of here.’ So, I’m not going to be logical now.”
Coach Erik Spoelstra added that Bosh plays both defense and offense, which is “very tough to do in this league.”
“If [Bosh] takes a break on that side of the floor, we’re not going to win, and he understands that just as well as anybody,” Spoelstra added, referring to defense.
Meanwhile, NumberFire says that Bosh is an early MVP favorite, using a statistic that the website created to measure a players’ overall impact.
“It’s a player ranking that measures the total contribution of a player throughout the course of a season, based on their efficiency. The league average is 0. Comparable to win shares, this ranking gives an estimate of how many games above or below .500 a league-average team would win with that player as one of their starters,” it said.
Bosh is third in the early MVP race, just behind Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors and Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans.
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