Chris Bosh still thinks he’ll play in the NBA again before retiring

Chris Bosh believes his NBA career isn’t over yet. The two-time champion and 11-time All-Star sat out the entirety of the 2016-17 season when he wasn’t cleared by the Heat’s medical staff with ongoing complications with blood clotting. Miami said at the time they view Bosh’s career as being over, but clearly, Bosh said himself he hasn’t reached that conclusion yet on the web broadcast of Larry King Now.

“At heart, I’m still an athlete,” Bosh said in the interview. “That is not how I want it to end.”

However, the 33-year-old Bosh understands why Miami is attempting to clear his $25 million cap hit for next season from their books. Bosh, who signed a five-year deal with the team in 2014, will be under contract for next season and the one after if Miami doesn’t work out a deal with him and the NBA.

“I understand what they have to do as a team,” Bosh said. “It is a business. I know we — as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA — never want to say it’s a business, and things like that. It’s is a business. And hurt does come in with that. But as president of the Miami Heat, I understand what he has to do.”

Bosh served as a TNT analyst during this season at times, not playing a game for the first time. Bosh had missed parts of the previous two seasons with complications due to his blood clotting, and said he didn’t know what was necessarily next for him.

“I don’t know,” he said. “And that’s exciting. It’s always this kind of pressure as an athlete, people [asking], ‘What are you going to do? And you should do this? Or you should do that?’ I think it’s OK to say, ‘I don’t know what I want to do.’ I have a lot of things on my mind.”

Bosh didn’t go into details about his health, calling it “very complicated,” but he clearly isn’t retiring yet either. Hopefully, he can return to the court sooner than later.

(h/t Miami Sun Sentinel)