Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey met with Chris Bosh on Thursday morning according to a tweet by Morey. "Just finished meeting with @chrisbosh -- great player & person. He is about winning so I focused on how w/Houston he can win a championship." The Rockets have been targeting Bosh for months. Their pitch to Bosh is pretty straightforward. They believe he is a perfect fit with the existing talent they have on their roster and they can offer Bosh a return home to Texas. The Rockets will also stress that if Bosh joins the Rockets, they're likely a 60-win team. If he forms a triumvirate with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in Miami, the Rockets believe the team won't have enough supporting talent to support a championship team. The Rockets believe such a pairing would produce a 45-win team. To land Bosh, the Rockets would have to work a sign-and-trade with the Raptors. The team could offer a players like Jordan Hill, Aaron Brooks and the expiring contracts of Jared Jeffries and David Andersen for Bosh. The also have restricted free agent Luis Scola that they could offer in a sign-and-trade. The Rockets also have the right to swap picks w/Knicks in 2011 and own a protected Knicks pick in 2012. In other words, they have a ton of assets http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/17346/the-rockets-pitch-to-bosh
"It's been an exciting first couple of hrs. Got some interesting visits and presentations from Houston, Toronto, Chicago and Miami. We'll see who else will come out tomorrow," wrote Chris Bosh on his Twitter page early Thursday morning. "Just finished meeting with @chrisbosh -- great player & person. He is about winning so I focused on how w/Houston he can win a championship," wrote Rockets general manager Daryl Morey on his Twitter page Thursday night. Most have Bosh going to Miami, Chicago or New York. However, he could end up in other cities, like Houston via a sign-and-trade with Toronto. The Houston Chronicle reports Bosh indicated through a third-party that he "definitely" would consider the Rockets and likes the idea of playing with Yao Ming and the chance to play on "a world stage."
