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Par Joël Pütz | Journaliste sportif
LeBron James’ arrival in Miami caused a huge upheaval in the NBA, with the King forming a terrifying Big Three with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. But what if we told you that other big names had also tried to make the move to South Beach?
For many, this is where the superteam concept really began, even though the Celtics had already made a similar move a few years earlier. If LeBron James’s departure to the Heat in 2010 is remembered as “The Decision,” it’s not without reason. Rarely has a player been so vilified for changing teams, he who had previously only represented the Cavaliers.
Granted, beyond the betrayal he was accused of, it was the forward’s career prospects that scared everyone. By heading to Florida, LeBron had joined his good friend Dwyane Wade before being followed shortly after by Chris Bosh. The “Tres Amigos” were born, a trio that would steamroll trough the Eastern Conference for four years, playing as many Finals and ultimately winning two consecutive titles.
Chris Bosh chosen over two other NBA stars in 2010
Interestingly, CB1 might never have beacome the third member of the Big Three. Dwyane Wade made an surprising admission on the Pardon My Take podcast:
Once people got a little inside (info) that we were thinking about playing together, we got a couple of calls. So we get calls from… Amar’e (Stoudemire) was a free agent, (Carlos) Boozer was a free agent.
And so we had to look if those personalities and those talents if it obviously worked with us because I think, it was ‘Bron and I who were committed to playing together. Once we committed to playing together, it was really important who that third person was. And we knew all along that we were going to do this, that Chris Bosh was the choice.
Coming off seven seasons with the Raptors, where he had become one of the league’s best power forwards, Bosh had accepted a drastic change in his role, handling many of the not-so-shiny duties while his two teammates shone. Enough to make him the scapegoat of critics when Miami was struggling, but also a highly respected figure in the locker room. Udonis Haslem paid tribute to him:
Everybody thinks our most important player was Bron. Our most important player, not our best player, was CB. If Bron went down, you could bring in D-Wade, and it’s not the same player, but you’re gonna get similar results of what you’re going to get out of the player – making plays, he can go for 30. We couldn’t simulate it; we didn’t have another CB. If that MF, went down and he got hurt, we didn’t have another one of those.
