Chris Bosh, Pau Gasol: The best bigs in the league – NBA Feature (Part 3)
Chris Bosh:
The 6 ft 11 power forward, who started his career with Toronto Raptors gained recognition after the departure of the great Vince Carter in 2004. Team management decided Chris Bosh will be the one around whom the rest of team would
be build. In the games following Vince’s departure, Chris blossomed in every major statistical category.
That was the start of Bosh’s dominance in NBA.
His average never dropped below 22 in the seasons that followed and he emerged as one of the best power forwards on the circuit. His farewell season with Raptors was his finest to date. Bosh was a consistent double-double threat
that season and also scored a career high 44 points in the game against Milwaukee Bucks.
Chris Bosh was traded to Miami Heat in 2010 and now is the component of the deadly “Big Three”. With LeBron James and Dwyane Wade leading the way, his numbers went down in the first season with Heat but only slightly. It will be
interesting to see now what impact he makes in the upcoming season. . He is quick and has a decent jumper too and with a NBA final loss behind him, he will rearing to go.
Pau Gasol:
Probably one of the best international players in NBA, Pau was the alpha dog at the Memphis Grizzlies for six long years.
The 7 ft Spaniard escalated to stardom right away. In his Rookie year he featured in all the 82 games and finished with an impressive average of 17.6 points and 8.9 rebounds. In his second year, his average increased to 19 points
per game and by that time, Gasol had become the new face of Grizzlies.
Pau Gasol is easily the Mr. consistent in NBA. He never let his average drop below 18 points per game which is a massive achievement. In his six years with Grizzlies, he helped his team reach the playoffs twice, solely with his
individual brilliance.
He made his first NBA All-Star appearance in 2006 which was his best season to date. It was also the first time that a Grizzlies player ever made it to an All-Star game.
In 2007, he was traded to Los Angeles Lakers and since then has been one of the most important players.
With him, the Lakers have reached the NBA Finals thrice in the last four years and have been triumphant in two of those. In the last season, it was a slump in his performance which eventually became the reason of a sweep in the
Western Conference Semifinals against the Dallas Mavericks.
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