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NBA media day: Pat Riley doesn't expect Chris Bosh to return to Heat

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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The NBA season is right around the corner and the first sure sign has arrived with media day kicking off in major cities across the country. Players and coaches hoping to make a good first impression will discuss the 2016–17 schedule, rotations and projections. Here, you can find news items and entertaining tidbits from all 30 teams. Early topics to watch include Chris Bosh's tenure with the Heat, Derrick Rose's criminal investigation and Paul Pierce's retirement at the end of the season.

Chris Bosh done in Miami?

Miami Heat star Chris Bosh has battled blood clots with hopes of reinvigorating his NBA career. It's starting to become clear that Miami won't be the place he does that. Speaking to media today, Heat president Pat Riley said the team is not "working toward his return" and explained that Bosh limited contact with the team in hopes of reconnecting when he could be cleared to play. Unfortunately, Bosh failed a physical in advance of Miami's training camp and Riley doesn't foresee a situation in which Bosh takes the court for the Heat again. There are obvious salary cap implications involved in Bosh's departure from Miami, but Riley maintained that the star center's health was always the No. 1 concern.

“His health, playing and economics—it's been health, health, health,” Riley said, according to the Sun Sentinel. “Whatever the cap ramifications are, they are there, but we never ever thought about that.”

Rose criminal investigation

In advance of the Knicks' media day, Thinkprogress.org obtained a letter an LAPD detective wrote to Derrick Rose's unnamed accuser. Detective Nadine Hernandez said in the letter that the accuser maintaining her anonymity “is an invaluable investigative aid to investigators" as they launch a criminal investigation into Rose. The Knicks guard has not spoken publicly about the matter, but team president Phil Jackson did discuss the civil suit with media members. In his remarks, Jackson said it "wasn't something that kept [Rose] up at night." He added that he doesn't think it will "affect his season, games or training camp."

There's still fun in Philly

The process paid off in Philadelphia and there should be an interesting season on the way. And while the team mostly consists of youngsters, there are a few veterans around the locker room. For players both at the start and end of their careers, training camp is a time to either gain weight or get in shape. Around this time each year, the 15-pound myth is typically alive and well. Elton Brand, who has now been in the NBA for 17 seasons, had a great quote to encapsulate this phenomenon.

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