Chris Bosh plays in the National Basketball Association as a professional basketball player .
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 -LRB- with whom he won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics -RRB- , and supplanted former fan-favorite Vince Carter as the face and leader of the Raptors franchise .