Bosh Suffering Eye Infection
Posted December 5, 2006 12:00 pm.
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It’s hard to envision Raptor success without star player Chris Bosh. But for now, Bosh is just hoping to see clearly again.
The all-star forward is suffering from a viral infection in his left eye that could keep him out of the lineup for Wednesday’s game against Cleveland. He’s already missed the team’s last two practices.
“I’m not blind. . . Well, I don’t have my contacts in right now, so I’m blind kind of,” Bosh joked while squinting through a puffy left eye. “But I’ve just got to wait one more day and see what happens.
“I’ve got a prescription to calm me down and everything. I’m here today, I didn’t get to practice but I got a workout in, in preparation for (Wednesday).”
Bosh isn’t new to nagging injuries. In the pre-season he suffered plantar fasciitis, a painful injury to the bottom of the foot, and has been enduring a sore knee for quite some time.
“The NBA kind of is what it is,” Raptors coach Sam Mitchell said Tuesday. “He’s had some problems, it’s been one little thing after another.”
“It’s new to me,” Bosh adds. “There’s a lot of stuff happening this year that’s new to me.”
Despite his less-than-stellar health, Bosh hasn’t missed a regular season game and leads the Raptors in scoring with 21.1 points a game.
“It’s tough, but he’s done a good job, he’s given us the best that he’s got, and that’s all you can ask for,” Mitchell said. “You’ve got to learn to play with discomforts and injuries.
“Ask those guys in the NFL after about Week 5, how many of them feel good . . . (they’ve) got to find a way on Sunday to get it done. In the NBA, you have to find a way, on Wednesday and Friday and Sunday, to get it done.”
