Canadians Can Take Pride in Rooting for U.S. Team's Chris Bosh

2008/08/08 22:42:13 @NBA.com: News

From CBC SPORTS, Jesse Campigotto writes "for Canadian basketball fans, Chris Bosh is about as close as they'll get to Beijing. It's a tenuous link, considering the Toronto Raptors star was born, and still makes his off-season home, in Dallas. But with the red and white still reeling from an unsucce ssful qualification attempt, hoopheads north of the border can turn their lonely eyes to Bosh when the Olympic basketball tournament kicks off Aug. 9 (Day 2). His hometown notwithstanding, Canucks could do a lot worse than pulling for the likable Bosh, whose multifaceted game could make him a star for the U.S. team at his first Olympics. ‘He's the perfect international player,' Leo Rautins, a Raptors colour man and the head coach of Canada's ill-fated national team, told CBCSports.ca. "He's inside, outside, he shoots the ball, he can put it on the floor, he runs.‘The U.S. team knows [that] and that's why they're thrilled to have him.'"
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