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The 4th year is a qualifying offer year, so Bosh may get contract offers from other teams and sign with them... and Toronto can match the offer and keep Bosh.

Ineptness?

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Bosh will not sign an extension with Toronto unless it is a sign and trade. Toronto would be smart to try to salvage whatever they can from him this summer: get some of the dead weight off of their cap. He hasn't even bothered to give the standard "This is where I want to be" bull**** line. If they start winning? Does anyone see any way possible for this team to start winning by next season? Toronto should not wait until he becomes a RFA because then he is going to force his way out and they will lose control of the process.

My guess is he gets moved this summer for a high lottery pick or two, a young prospect and cap relief. The line will be long because he will be the best available player on the market. My gut tells me he ends up in Chicago to play with Deng.

Just playing around in my head: NY pick in 2006, Chicago's pick in 2006, Sweetney or Chandler, and Ben Gordon or Hinrich for Bosh and filler.

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naibsel

i added a suffix onto inept, ironic coz i should have been able to find a better word. i was under the impression that contract extensions could be offered at the end of third year to stop the players becoming restricted free agents in their fourth year eg. tayshaun prince.

Burn

He'll come back to GA

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BBB

Perhaps it's because VC screwed them over by demanding a trade publicly and playing like crap after the request?

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shookem

whoah, hold on there. NY's pick & Chi pick, both in '06? The Raps would be potentially drafting four top 20 players in one year, after introducing three the year before. the team wants to rebuild through the draft, but that's a little much.

whether Bosh stays or goes the Raps will be a decent playoffs team in three years, maybe two, with Bosh they could be contendors.

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matt!

Yeah, but think about what they become with that trade:

PG: Jose Calderon / Daniel Gibson?
SG: Ben Gordon / Joey Grahm
SF: Rudy Gay?
PF: Charlie Villanueva / Nick Fazekas?
C: Lamarcus Aldridge? / Tyson Chandler

Thats a roster for the future.

thug_immortal8

There's a good chance he stays in Toronto, but the lure of big money and the Lakers might be enough to get him to leave. Or at least I hope so.

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bigbabyjesus

Bosh isn't stupid, like a lot of fans here are. He knows the Raptors are rebuilding, and that they will probably have to take a step or two backwards before they can start moving forward as a young team.

Sure, I'm worried, like every other Raptor fan that he will bolt.. but I don't believe he will. I don't think he is the type of person who would demand a trade, and especially not publically which would therefore screw his team out of getting close to equal value.

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Chan

Tell me, what team looks better- 04-05 Cavs, who was in some kind of playoff contention, or the 05-06 bottom of the barrel Raptors? What team looked more promising? Who would you rather play for? Not to mention Lebron's home roots in Ohio factor in to some sort of incentive for him to stay.

So I didn't realize the length of Bosh contract. Same story- They end the season on a light note, or the team does well, Bosh stays. If their new players don't have any impact, Bosh will go. Don't go hostile on me, I'm just disagreeing (sp?) with your point.

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Turkish Delight

I'm kind of surprised at how lopsided this poll is. This team is playing with three rookies (Calderon, Charlie V, Graham) , two second year players (Bonner, Araujo) and Chris Bosh who is in his 3rd year. There is obviously going to be some growing pains along the way, but this team really isn't as bad as their record would indicate. They are 6-7 in the month of December, where they have beaten teams like New Jersey, Orlando and Houston on the road. What I'm trying to say is that they're playing a lot better than they were in November, and the young guys are developing rather quickly. Personally, I think Chris Bosh understands that this team is rebuilding, but they have a nice, young solid core of guys right now. They'll have two more 1st round picks in next years draft, followed by finally getting some cap space the year after. Also, that's the year where their highly touted prospect, Roko Ukic is set to play in the NBA.

Either way, the thought of the Raptors even thinking of trading Bosh this off-season is simply foolish. I think they will surprise some people next year. I'm not saying that they'll make the playoffs, but they'll be competitive, that's for sure. That should be a good indication to Bosh that this team is indeed moving in the right direction.

AIFAN3

Bosh said himself that it will depend on if toronto starts to win wether or not he will stay. So right now its up in the air. But me personally i think he's going to stay, that organization isnt that dumb to let 2 star players go for nothing without getting something in return and he's a restricted free agent so they'll just match anything any other team offers

trick

As far as I'm concerned, Bosh's future in TO will only last up until '07 until he signs the dotted line, but as any raptor fan I'm feverishly hoping he will resign. Though it is one of the most important situations for this franchise to date, I'm not guaranteeing that he'll be here with the rest of the rookies for the long haul past '07.

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