Chris bch is an American former professional basketball player a Texas Mr basketball in high school he played one season of college basketball for Georgia te before declaring for the 2003 NBA Draft BOS was selected fourth overall by the Toronto Raptors in 2021 Bosch was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 after seven re Seasons with the Raptors BOS entered into a sign and trade deal whereby he was traded to the Miami Heat in Miami he joined fellow Stars Joan wed and libron James the trial became known as The Big Three Bosch spent the second half of his career with Miami appearing in the NBA Finals each year from 2011 to 2014 and winning NBA titles in 2012 and 2013 BOS made the NBA allar team every year during his time in Miami Bosch's career was cut short by a black clotting condition that the NBA ruled to be a career ending illness he played his final NBA game on February 9th 2016 not withstanding the NBS ruling Bosch fought to resuming his playing career for these years before announcing in February 2019 that he intended to retire the same year the heat retired BOS S one Jersey while at Toronto BOS became a five-time NBA allar was named to the all NBA second team once played for the US national team and supplanted former fan favorite Vince Carter as the face and leader of the Raptors franchise in the 2006 to7 season Bosch lead the Raptors to their first playoff appearance in 5 years and their first ever division title he left Toronto in 2010 as a franchise's alltime leader in points rebounds blocks and minutes played B selected fourth overall by the Toronto Raptors he is considered to be one of the greatest power forwards of all time and one of the best players of his generation on June 2 2017 the NBA ruled that Bosch's blood clotting issues were a career ending illness meaning the heat would be allowed to remove his contract from their salary cap once they officially released him on September 26 2016 h president Pat Riley said that the team feed Bosch's career with the team as over in May 2017 Bosch and the heat reportedly reached a unique agreement in which Bosch would leave the heat without his salary taking up the team salary cap space for the 2017 to 18 season in the 2013 to 14 season Bosch played and started in 79 games averaging 16.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game he also hit a carer high 74 3point shots on 33% shooting from Beyond The Ark in the playoffs B helped the heat return to the NBA finals where they faced the San Antonio espar once again this time however the heat were outclassed by the spars as they lost the shies in five games