**GQ: Who on the Miami Heat has the most "Kanye West" moments? **

Chris Bosh: I think Dwyane. Because he’ll say something and you’ll be like, "Damn!" He’s honest with you like, "You should’ve been right there."

GQ: Favorite designer?

Chris Bosh: John Varvatos.

GQ: When was the last time you cried?

Chris Bosh: The NBA Finals. Everybody saw that. Everybody made a big deal out of it, and that’s what bothered me the most. It’s like, "Dude, if you’ve never cried over basketball as a grown man, you’re lying. I don’t care what you’re saying, you’re lying." I lost at the ultimate level, you know? If the guys don’t understand that, they’re either lying or they don’t have a pulse.

GQ: Crying is a mark of a competitor?

Chris Bosh: Yeah. I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic. I used to go crazy. If I cried it’d be like, "Ah, Chris is crying again... damn it... come on, get in the car." All that over one game. I hated to lose.

GQ: So how’d you play for the Raptors then? You must’ve been crying every day.

Chris Bosh: [laughs] I had gotten rid of the crying when I got to high school, though it happened again when I was a junior. We lost in the state championship. It was kind of the same situation, camera in my face, and then that’s when I realized it was over I had my moment. But we won the next year, then the other people cried. [laughs]

GQ: Out of all the players, what team in the Western Conference would you like to make cry?

Chris Bosh: I wouldn’t like to make anybody cry, I don’t dislike anybody. It doesn’t even matter—the opponent is always faceless. There’s nobody out there that I’m like—

GQ: That sounds like a quote from the 33 Strategies of War.

Chris Bosh: It probably is! It would feel great to get the Mavs back but I wouldn’t do it for those reasons, because I think sometimes you can get caught up in all that, instead of enjoying the moment.

GQ: It’s about the hardware, right?

Chris Bosh: Yes.

GQ: Favorite GOP candidate?

Chris Bosh: GOP? What is GOP?

GQ: The Republican Party.

Chris Bosh: Oh, Republican Party. [laughs] You know what, to be honest, politics is so weird. I think it’s more heavy than religion. If you look at it, you have these figures who are up here—and we all make mistakes—but they’re up there like they’ve never made a mistake. Then they tear each other down. They have these followings... I can’t speak on that. I don’t know anything about that stuff.

GQ: Do you vote?

Chris Bosh: I do, I vote. People died for our right to vote, you know, and I can’t let that go.

GQ: What do you think is the world’s most common misconception about you?

Chris Bosh: What misconceptions are there about me?

**GQ: I don’t know you, so I don’t know what’s misperceived. I just know perceptions. **

Chris Bosh: I guess it’s the whole soft thing or whatever.

GQ: It seems as if people are very critical of you in that regard. Shaq called you the RuPaul of big men. Does that stuff ever get to you?

Chris Bosh: It was more so just strange. When we played that game where he made that comment, he had a great game. We were a smaller team and I said something about him camping out in the lane. I’m like, What can you do? I think my exact words were, "What can you do if he’s in there three seconds? If he’s in the lane more than three seconds then we can’t stop him." The ref should’ve called three seconds, that’s what I said. Then there’s all this other stuff coming back, and I’m like, "Damn!" So I didn’t even care, I just spoke my mind and it was the truth—what can you do if Shaq is there, and here’s just having a great game?