Bosh decided to backtrack a bit on his comments that he hadn’t talked to LeBron since he left the HEAT. He tried to downplay the comments by saying it is nothing personal.
“There’s no hard feelings or anything,” Bosh said after the Miami Heat practiced Thursday in advance of their preseason game against the Cavs on Saturday. “If we’re both trying to win, he’s against us, and that’s a matter of fact.”
This isn’t personal, Bosh said, and he reinforced it by recalling a gift he and his wife, Adrienne, recently sent James.
“He had a baby shower, and we sent him a gift for his daughter,” Bosh said. “Then training camp started, and that was about it.”
Clarifying comments he made Tuesday, Bosh said he did speak with James briefly at Dwyane Wade’s wedding Aug. 30.
“My time is backwards and everything, but we talked,” Bosh said. “I want people to understand I’m a competitor, and he’s on the other team. I think he’d understand that, and I understand that, and that’s how it is now.”
It is obvious Bosh feels some sort of way about LeBron, but he has to know any comments like the ones he made the other day is going to start a firestorm, which is why I believe he went with more of the politically correct ones today.