Chris Bosh plays in a professional basketball league in America.
Christopher Wesson Bosh ( born March 24 , 1984 ) is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . While at Toronto , Bosh emerged as one of the young stars in the league ; he became a five-time NBA All-Star , was named to the All-NBA Second Team once , appeared for the U.S. national team ( with whom he won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics ) , and supplanted former fan-favorite Vince Carter as the face and leader of the Raptors franchise . The Professional Basketball League of America ( 1947 -- 1948 ) was a basketball league in the United States that was started in 1947 in response to the tremendous upsurge in interest in basketball in the era immediately following World War II . The USSR Premier Basketball League , or Soviet Union Premier Basketball League ( also called Supreme League ) , was the first-tier men 's professional basketball league in the former Soviet Union .