Wednesday's Insider report on Bosh

["Berry, Mark S" <berrym@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bosh sounds great. This was posted on Insider Wednesday, before there was
any indication the pick was up for grabs.

Mark

He's a late comer to the scene, but it hasn't taken long for freshman Chris
Bosh <http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18511>
to make a name for himself in the NBA Draft. 
Bosh, a 6-foot-11, 225-pound forward from Texas (he played at Georgia Tech),
only recently decided to keep his name in the draft and hire an agent. Since
then, he's strung together several impressive workouts for the Bulls, Heat
and Pistons. 
Today he's in Toronto and is scheduled to go to Denver this weekend. 
Bosh's workout with the Pistons raised a few eyebrows. GM Joe Dumars said
last week that the team would draft Darko Milicic
<http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18423>  with
the second pick in the draft. However, Bosh wanted to work out for the
Pistons anyway. He left everyone on the staff very impressed. 
"He's going to be a real special player," one Pistons source told Insider.
"He reminds me of kind of a young Tim Duncan
<http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3173> . He's just so
solid fundamentally. His ability to play both inside and outside is very
intriguing. And, he's a great young man." 
While some teams worry that Bosh might be a few years away because of his
slight build, the Pistons aren't that worried. 
"He does need to gain a little weight and get stronger," the source said.
"But you could say that about 90 percent of the young players in the draft.
He's not that far away." 
The Pistons aren't the only ones who believe that. The Raptors are leaning
toward taking Bosh with the No. 4 pick, a league source told Insider.
They've also worked out T. J. Ford, Chris Kaman
<http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18447>  and
Pavel Podkolzine. All three players worked out well, but none of them did
enough to dissuade the Raptors from taking Bosh. If Bosh works out well
today alongside KU's Nick Collison
<http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18443> ,
he'll be a lock for No. 4.