Retired - Retired after 2022 season
- Birthdate: 11/21/1984
- Drafted (NBA): 23rd pick, 2006
- Pre-draft team: Connecticut
- Country: USA
- Hand: Right
- Agent: -
December 12, 2013
Josh Boone - Boone has an uncanny knack of peaking in his second year at places. In college, he was best as a sophomore. In the NBA, he was best as a sophomore. And in China, where he's been since leaving the NBA, all his career highs were in his second season. Boone's limited game has not expanded since leaving the big league, and his free throw shooting continues to regress, to the point he is now one of the very worst around. However, despite these deficiencies and his lack of ideal size, he can still rebound and defend the interior.
March 13, 2011
Josh Boone - 32 games, 27.5 mpg, 17.0 ppg, 10.5 rpg, 1.1 apg, 1.1 spg, 1.8 bpg, 1.1 TOpg, 62% FG, 0% 3PT, 51% FT
Boone and James signed early, recipients of the new rules for this CBA season that removed salary restrictions on import players and allowed teams to spend as much as they liked on players with good name recognition. It worked rather well for Boone, who has been incredibly productive in his comparatively limited minutes, and who has even managed to reverse the decline in his free throw percentage that he had been on for the previous four seasons. It did not work out as well for James, however; while he was playing well and scoring heavily, the team felt he was not playing a sufficiently team-oriented game, and released him a few weeks into the season to bring back Williams, one of the best players in China last season, if not the very best.
July 30, 2010
Josh Boone - Boone did not improve during the duration of his rookie contract; in fact, after Marcus Williams left, Boone only got worse. This decline is evident in his free throw percentage, which achieved the unusual feat of going downwards for four consecutive seasons (54%, 46%, 38%, 33%). Nonetheless, Boone is occasionally useful for some pick and roll offense, and grabs enough rebounds to matter.
June 14, 2010
Josh Boone - Boone did not improve during the duration of his rookie contract; in fact, after Marcus Williams left, Boone only got worse. This decline is evident in his free throw percentage, which achieved the unusual feat of going downwards for four consecutive seasons (54%, 46%, 38%, 33%). Nonetheless, Boone is occasionally useful for some pick and roll offense, and grabs enough rebounds to matter.