Miami Heat star Chris Bosh, who missed the second half of each of the past two NBA seasons because of blood clots, failed a pre-season physical and cannot return to action, the team said on Friday.
“The Miami Heat and Chris Bosh, in consultation with team doctors and other physicians, have been working together for many months with the mutual goal of having Chris return to the court as soon as possible,” the Heat said in a statement. “Chris has now taken his pre-season physical. The Miami Heat regret that it remains unable to clear Chris to return to basketball activities, and there is no timetable for his return.”
The Heat said privacy rules prevented further comment.
The team’s announcement comes a week after 11-time All-Star Bosh declared himself ready to return. He has not played since Feb. 9 after the emergence of blood clots in his calf.
He also missed the second half of the 2014-2015 season with blood clots, with one moving to his lung and forcing him into an extended hospital stay.
In comments to the Open Run podcast last week, the 32-year-old said he expected to be at the team’s training camp in the Bahamas, even though Heat doctors, long at loggerheads with him over his fitness to return to the court, had not cleared him.
He said that he believed he had found a successful regimen for treating the clots that would have blood-thinning drugs out of his system before he played or trained.
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