Chris Bosh's Health Is More Important Than Miami Heat Trade Deadline Deals

One flip through social media and you notice two recurring themes when it comes to the Miami Heat: “Please don’t trade Hassan Whiteside for Dwight Howard” and “how will Chris Bosh‘s latest blood-clot scare affect deadline deals?”

If you look close enough you would even see a few so-called fans calling for Bosh to be moved so that Dwyane Wade “could have help in the playoffs.” And this is the cold-hearted society that we live in, where the business of basketball takes precedence over diseases and conditions that could not only be career crippling but life threatening.

It is as if certain people simply look at Bosh as the 19 points and seven rebounds that he puts in the box score every night for their entertainment. But true fans see past the sport and potential roster moves and first sympathize with the guy who has to relive one of his worst nightmares on a loop for the second time in 12 months.

Compassion should leapfrog fan goals and common decency should rank higher than a fantasy team. In the words of Wade, people should focus on “trying to stay positive.” But maybe having a brother who discovered the same scare around the same time as Bosh last year makes me think different. And the fact that he found out that it reoccurred in his calves days before Bosh revealed that his calf strain would have to be reevaluated may have pushed empathy levels up a bit. But it did.

Deja vu can be a scary thing, so have patience and let the Heat handle their front office issues before you worry about pushing Bosh through the door.