NBA Rumors: Chris Bosh Riding Solo, Abandoning Free Agent Summit for Cockiness?

Roll call at the 2010 free agent summit:

LeBron James? Present.

Dwyane Wade? Present.

Chris Bosh? **crickets**

If a summit does happen, Chris Bosh won't be there. Bosh will decide his own fate for next season independent of LeBron James, Dwayne Wade or anyone else. NBA.com reported that the Toronto Raptor free agent wants to be "the man ," the "centerpiece," the guy who will lead (not help), lead his team to a championship. (Well, he could always stay in Toronto.)

He does not want to be an "addition." He does not want to be a "role player." 

Hmmm ... isn't there a saying that basketball is a team sport?

But in the NBA, I guess Bosh's reasonings for winning —  er, no —  self-centeredness (perhaps?) are understandable. 

He wants to be "Like Mike" or a Kobe without a Shaq, turning his teammates around him into winners.  

Does this mean he wants to go to a team with no base-superstar? 

Well, if Bosh considers Derrick Rose a superstar, then sorry Chicago. 

New York might have a chance. But what if LeBron goes there?

Will Bosh opt-out wherever LeBron or Wade go?

The NBA's face lift all depends on which star free agent (Bosh, James or Wade) makes the first move; then the ripple effect starts. But no one knows who the first domino to fall will be.

Said Bosh to SportsNet New York: "Any time you have the opportunity to play with certain guys, you have to take that into consideration ... When it all goes down, [LeBron is] gonna be one of the all-time greats. At the same time, I can't just sit around and wait."

Bosh doesn't want to play in the shadow of James, Wade or any big-name player. They will steal his thunder. But just because he doesn't want to, doesn't mean he will avoid them. 

So is it too early to say goodbye to a LeBron-Bosh/Wade-Bosh combo?

The problem for Bosh in this league is that the Big Man doesn't get the respect he deserves; it's mostly the guard who gets most of the credit. If Bosh wants to win, he will need a star guard to complement him and feed him the ball. That risks him taking the "sidekick" role. 

If he wants to win a championship title, he can't be the only superstar on the team.

It's difficult to build a championship team around a forward these days.

Just ask Dwight Howard and the Orland Magic.

The last five MVPs have been guards with  their trusty Big Men (i.e. Kobe and Pau Gasol, and Dwayne Wade and Shaquille O'Neal). While Tim Duncan was MVP in 2004-05, he had Tony Parker. 

And if Bosh wants to win now now, he needs to reconsider his egoistic thinking. 

Or else good luck attempting to accomplish what Magic Johnson or Larry Bird did. 

If one thing is certain, the summer of free agency is no longer under the power of King James.