MIAMI — Chris Bosh ended last season collapsed in an AmericanAirlines Arena hallway, dazed and despondent after the devastating Finals defeat to Dallas.
He ended this season smiling with the championship trophy in one hand and his seven-week-old baby in the other, the euphoric culmination of the two most memorable months of his life.
A position shift to center.
The birth of a son, Jackson.
A painful injury that sidelined him nine games this postseason.
A splendid performance in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
And finally, a championship.
This June, the searing image is not of Bosh on that hall floor, writhing in emotional distress, but instead of Bosh lifting the treasured trophy skyward and carrying it off the court.
“That,” Bosh said, “was everything to me. It was just erasing all those memories, getting that bad taste out of my mouth. I live with that every time I walk down the hall. I forgot cameras were there last year, but whatever.
“But I think it was good for me in the long run because I could watch every single day what we had to go through and what I had to go through.
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