Chris Bosh hasn't suited up for the Miami Heat since early February, missing the last 37 games after pulling out of the All-Star Game amid concerns related to another round of the frightening blood-clotting problems that prematurely ended his 2014-15 season. But while the Heat continue to list him as out indefinitely, the 32-year-old All-Star hasn't given up hope of returning at some point during Miami's playoff run ... and it sounds like the difference of opinion between the two parties about a prospective return to the court might be getting messy.

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Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical reported in February that Bosh was facing "increasing pressure from physicians and the [Heat] organization to sit out the rest of the season," due to the dangers of attempting to resume such strenuous physical activity after a second clotting scare. Weeks later, though, Bosh announced he was clot-free, that his "situation this year has never been life-threatening," and that he remained "positive that [he] will be able to return this season."

Ethan Skolnick and Barry Johnson of the Miami Herald reported two weeks ago that Bosh and the Heat "have not all been aligned in terms of the treatment of his condition," with the Heat making it known that even if an outside doctor were to clear Bosh, "it doesn’t mean the team will be comfortable letting him play," whether or not he signed a medical waiver that could potentially limit the team's liability in the event of a recurrence of the clotting issue following his return. They followed up with a report that Bosh had "found one doctor who appeared willing to give clearance for him to play," and that "the Heat (and other doctors) disagreed with that assessment," keeping Bosh on the sidelines.

That's not where Bosh wants to be. He's continued to travel with the team, continued to work out, posting Snapchat videos about how much he misses the game and how he's "still got it":

And his wife, Adrienne Bosh, broke out an eyebrow-raising hashtag in response to a tweet by Skolnick about how Miami could have used her husband in its first-round matchup with the Charlotte Hornets:

“He didn’t talk about [how tough it is sitting out], but you can see it," Heat point guard Goran Dragic said last week, according to Jason Lieser of the Palm Beach Post. "He’s emotional. We worked hard for this the whole season. Everybody understand he wants to be there, and we want him to be there. It’s tough.”

It might soon get tougher. After blowing the Hornets out in Game 7 to advance to a second-round matchup with the Toronto Raptors, for whom Bosh starred for seven seasons before joining the Heat in free agency in the summer of 2010, longtime Miami columnist and ESPN personality Dan Le Batard said Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio show that the situation has progressed to the point where the Boshes might be involving the National Basketball Players Association — the union that represents NBA players, led by executive director Michele Roberts — in what he described as a "super unusual situation."

Le Batard's discussion of the issue starts at around the eight-minute mark here; below, an edited transcript of some of his remarks:

I can't think of a lot of instances where a sports organization is acting in what appear to be the best interests of the player over their own interests, and against the will of the player. From the people I'm talking to, Chris Bosh wants back on the court. And now. Wants to get back to the Miami Heat. And the Miami Heat, on medical advice, are saying absolutely not. No.

They're paying him. They need him. They badly want to get to an Eastern Conference finals against LeBron, and they are telling him, "No. You cannot work." And I was trying to think of examples of this, where a sports organization chooses the best interest of the player over the organization and the player is acting in a way that doesn't — and, by the way, a player who's super rational, super diverse, super smart, has a lot of interests; he's not a crazy person, he's got five kids — and he's appearing to take a stance here that is super dangerous. Because if you talk to medical experts, they will tell you a recurrence of blood clots can be catastrophic.

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