Miami Heat: 10 best moments of Chris Bosh’s Heat career
By Frank Urbina
5. Bosh shows up the Hawks again
For the second time on our list, we get Bosh clowning the poor Hawks. The first was a vicious throw-down; this one shows the other end of his vast skill-set.
It was a Jan. 5 outing in Atlanta. This time, it wasn’t just James sitting out, but Wade as well. Alongside Bosh, the Heat started Mario Chalmers, Shane Battier, James Jones and Joel Anthony, against a pretty good Hawks team that went on to win 40 of their 66 games in the lockout-shortened season of 2012.
For all intensive purposes, it’s a game Miami should have lost. Instead, behind a 33-point, 14-rebound, five-assist performance by Bosh, they did the opposite.
It wasn’t easy, though.
With exactly 10 seconds remaining, they Heat were down by three, with the ball. In what can only be described as a broken pick-and-pop play, Chalmers somehow found a way to attract a double team (seriously, Atlanta?), and dished a quick pass to Bosh for a three.
As is he prone to do in such moments, Bosh nailed it. Fading away, hand in his face and falling out of bounds — didn’t matter. The ball barely grazed the net.
Miami wound up winning 116-109 in triple overtime. Shoutout to Big Shot Bosh.