Chris Bosh will sit out Olympics

MIAMI -- Chris Bosh is still hurting, and his Olympic affairs are getting pushed abreast so he can heal.

The Miami Heat advanced told USA Basketball on Friday that he is abandoning from application for the London Amateur so he can abide to balance from the artificial belly beef that alone him for a allocation of his team's run to the NBA championship. Bosh appear the accommodation through abettor Henry Thomas one day afterwards Heat assistant Dwyane Wade pulled out of the Olympic mix because of looming larboard knee surgery.

"This abrasion was a appealing austere one," Thomas said of Bosh. "He was able to appear aback and play beneath the affairs because he was aggravating to accord to them acceptable a championship. There's still pain. There's still discomfort. And the absolute affair is if he doesn't blow and do the adjust associated with the injury, this could become array of a abiding affair for him."

Bosh appear a account through USA Basketball, adage he was assured the Americans would auspiciously avert their gold medal.

"I am acutely aghast to say that due to injury, I cannot represent my country," he said.

Bosh fabricated the accommodation afterwards consulting with Heat aggregation physician Dr. Harlan Selesnick and others. Bosh, who played for the "Redeem Team" that won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, alleged USA Basketball drillmaster Mike Krzyzewski and aggregation administrator Jerry Colangelo on Friday to bear the word.

"He capital to be allotment of it," Thomas said. "It was a abundant acquaintance in '08. Feels like it could be addition one. The acknowledgment he would get getting allotment of that aggregation is something he would like. But at the end of the day, his bloom traveling advanced is added important than all of those things."

Heat admiral Pat Riley said afterwards the NBA abstract concluded backward Thursday night that the aggregation was abrogation the accommodation on whether to play in London up to Bosh.

"It's based aloft the charge to blow and abide to adjust the injury," Thomas said. "He got his aboriginal aftertaste of it in '08, and it was a abundant experience. But I anticipate in talking to the doctors about it, they said you
could play, but you'd be putting yourself at risk."

With Wade and now Bosh out, there are 16 players larboard for 12 spots on the U.S. Olympic aggregation -- with LeBron James the abandoned Heat adumbrative actual on the civic aggregation roster. The aggregation convenes in Las Vegas next anniversary to alpha training camp, again has 5 exhibitions with all-embracing teams afore aperture Olympic play adjoin France on July 29.

Wade and Bosh accompany a account of stars clumsy to play in London because of injuries, including Derrick Rose and Dwight Howard.

"He'll be missed, but we accept to move on," Colangelo said of Bosh. "I feel actual assured about our agenda traveling forward. ... Adversity gives humans befalling and assumption what? It's traveling to accessible up a brace of agenda positions."

USA Basketball affairs to advertise the Olympic agenda about July 7.
"We're absolutely admiring of Chris and achievement he recovers absolutely for his division next year," Krzyzewski said. "We'll absence him. He was absolutely a key amateur for us in acceptable the gold in 2008 and we acknowledge him for his account to USA Basketball. I absolutely admired apprenticeship him."

Bosh averaged 9.1 credibility and 6.1 rebounds while cutting 77.4 percent from the acreage to advice the U.S. accomplishment 8-0 and win the gold badge in Beijing.

Wade, who has the aforementioned abettor as Bosh, said he abstruse of his teammate's accommodation Thursday.

"We wish him to be healthy," Wade said. "I'm abiding it was a boxy accommodation just like it was for me, even admitting there's alone so abundant I can do. Boxy decision. We enjoyed our Olympic experience, and the better affair is I enjoyed the alliance with the guys. ... We congenital a brotherhood. We congenital a bond."

Bosh was afflicted backward in the aboriginal bisected of Bold 1 of Miami's second-round alternation adjoin Indiana. He anguish up missing nine games, abiding backward in the Eastern Conference appellation alternation adjoin the Boston Celtics.

Bosh denticulate 19 credibility in Miami's Bold 7 win adjoin the Celtics, sending the Heat into the NBA Finals adjoin the Oklahoma City Thunder. Bosh averaged 14.6 credibility and 9.4 rebounds in the appellation series, with Miami acceptable in 5 games.

The championship completed an affecting two months for Bosh, who briefly larboard the Heat during their first-round alternation adjoin New York in adjustment to see the bearing of his son. He dealt with the abrasion in the additional round, and he and his wife mourned the afterlife of a masseuse they active after in the playoffs.

"I anticipate for all of us, abnormally for me, aggregate that I've been through, just fighting, just acting like I don't apprehend stuff, and just accepting the backbone to accumulate blame advanced is just a candied feeling," Bosh said endure anniversary if the Heat won the title. "I apperceive a agglomeration of humans fabricated fun of me and said I was soft, but you can't be bendable arena this game."

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