We bash pro athletes all the time for seeming to care only about money and stats. We wish they’d care as much about their sport as they do about their possessions.

But now someone comes along who apparently cares — a lot — and what does he get? He gets mocked for being a crybaby. It’s all over the Internet, so it must be true: Bosh is a wimp!

After that series-ending loss, LeBron James seemed to want everyone to know that he’d wake up rich and famous the next morning, unlike the rest of us, who would wake up to our torturously mundane lives. He sounded like a jerk of the highest order. Later, he said his comments were misconstrued, but, well, too late, LeBron.

When Bosh cried after a bitter defeat, he was on his way to becoming a blubbering pantywaist. That’s how it goes. If you don’t win the title, you can’t win. Let that be a lesson to you, Chris Bosh.

When he broke down, it was a reminder of how few, if any, events in our professional lives are worthy of tears. Aren’t you a tiny bit envious that there is something in Bosh’s day job that is so important to him that he would sob over it? For some of us, the fact that the soft-drink dispenser is out of Diet Coke is the only thing that can move the needle of our emotions, and then not very much.

But Bosh cared.