Sour Grapes Or Bitter Truth? Chris Bosh Tells Kevin Love It’s Going To Be Hard Playing With LeBron James
True to form, the LeBron James - Miami Heat break-up story is going to hog the headlines for most of the 2014-2015 NBA season. It’s just the NBA preseason, and one character from that narrative is already acting like a scorned lover, if not just sour-graping because of how he— or his team was jilted by the best player in the NBA.
"It's going to be very difficult for him," Chris Bosh, former LeBron James teammate with the Miami Heat, said via Bleacher Report. "Even if I was in his corner and I was able to tell him what to expect and what to do, it still doesn't make any difference. You still have to go through things, you still have to figure out things on your own. It's extremely difficult and extremely frustrating. He's going to have to deal with that."
There are two line of thoughts here; Bosh just wanted to give Kevin Love an honest-to-goodness advice on how he has to adjust his game with a LeBron James on the floor and how difficult it would be to change his game from the franchise player and no. 1 option with the Minnesota Timberwolves to a secondary star in Cleveland.
The other is more subtle and yet more simple; Bosh, as a competitive being, who recently got dumped by his former buddy in LeBron James, wants to plant the seeds of doubt on Love and the Cavaliers; by saying it’s going to be a hard task, perhaps, Love will overthink how he should play with somebody like LeBron James.
“I’ve averaged 20 and 10. I think I’ve shown the capabilities, in multiple years, to average 20 and 10. Nothing happened. No parade was thrown. No award was given. Nothing happened. That made me realize the only stat that’s really relevant is the wins. That’s all I care about,” a Miami Heat star said in a grantland.com article published June 6, 2013.
“I just let it go,” the same person not named Dwyane Wade and LeBron James said in that same article. “That’s the only thing I can do, because I’m not going to get 30 and 15, or 20 and 10, with this team. Sometimes you have to sacrifice the glory.”
That player who only cared about the wins? That person who was willing to sacrifice? That was Chris Bosh, who went on to win a second championship with LeBron James that year.
Bosh has an advice for Kevin Love; it’s going to be a hard process adjusting to playing with LeBron James. What Bosh didn’t say out loud was that LeBron James, who is one of the greatest and most unselfish teammates in the history of basketball, will help him out all the way and make things easier.
