Chris Bosh can stand the Heat, but he still has a reason to get out of the Florida kitchen.
The Miami Heat center may have put himself in a compromising position in a legal battle of child support payments when he recently professed wanting to finish his NBA career with his current team, Gossipextra.com reports.
He was recently quoted as saying, "I'm in Miami for the rest of my career. I plan to be there. I plan to retire there. I plan to win hopefully a lot more championships there. So that's where home is."
Bosh and the Heat were scheduled to play Game 6 of the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs later Tuesday. Bosh has been subject of trade rumors, especially with the Heat in danger of losing the championship series for the second time in three years.
He may want to leave if an appeals court in a child support case rules against him.
Bosh's former live-in girlfriend, Allison Mathis, tried to sue Bosh for higher child support payments last year, citing his Florida residency. Mathis is the mother of Bosh's daughter.
Bosh has a 12,000 square-foot house in Biscayne Bay that he bought for $12.5 million in 2010, according to Gossipextra.com. Bosh, however, claims his legal residency is in Texas - he owns a 1,900 square-foot home in a Dallas suburb.
Mathis argued that Bosh should pay some $30,000 per month in child support payments, which is what he would have to pay as a Florida resident. As a Texas resident, Bosh currently pays $2,600 per month, the website reported.
A judge in Orlando, Fla., ruled in Bosh's favor last December, prompting Mathis' attorney to file an appeal.
"Chris Bosh's testimony in court about his being a Florida resident is exactly opposite of what he recently told the media," Gossipextra.com reported attorney Jane Carey as saying. "He now says he intends to retire here after playing for the Heat. You can't be a resident of Texas and retire in Florida.
"Chris Bosh fooled the trial judge, but we believe that the Appellate Court will reverse the lower court decision."
If traded, he could avoid having to play the steeper child support price.
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