Chris Bosh says his health is in a good place as he continues to manage the blood clot condition that ended his playing career early.
In a recent interview with FOS News, the former Miami Heat star said, “Yeah, you know, the health is good," Bosh said in an interview with FOS News. "I got off to a bit of a rough start for 2026 back in January, but I take my medicine.
I make sure I've seen more doctors than I've seen in my whole lifetime of being an athlete. I'm making sure I'm taking the precautions, and that's going well.”
Bosh’s NBA run was one of the league’s biggest what-ifs. His career stopped in 2016 after he couldn’t recover from a blood clot diagnosis, though he didn’t officially retire until 2019. He played his final season at age 31.
A member of the 2003 draft class that also included LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade, Bosh went No. 4 overall to the Toronto Raptors and developed into a perennial All-Star there. He spent years being somewhat overlooked early in his career before breaking into superstardom in the summer of 2010.
That summer, he joined James and Wade in Miami, forming a Heat trio that ranked among the league’s best. The “Big Three” delivered two championships and reached the NBA Finals four straight times.
The run ended when James left for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the summer of 2014, but Miami still had momentum. The Heat added All-Star guard Goran Dragic from the Phoenix Suns in February 2015, and many believed the team could stay near the top of the Eastern Conference.
Instead, the season unraveled when Bosh was diagnosed with blood clots during the All-Star break. The clots traveled to his lungs, and although he briefly returned later in his career, the condition came back.
Bosh was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021.
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