Bosh

When LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh joined forces this summer, it came with the understanding that their roles on offense would have to evolve in their new confines. The biggest adjustment? Learning to share the ball after shouldering most of the scoring burden in their previous basketball lives.

And after two games, it's Bosh who has had to scale back the most.

How can we tell? Let's look at some numbers. Last season in Toronto, Bosh used 28.7 percent of his team's total possessions while on the floor, which in advanced stats circles is referred to as a player's usage rate (USG%). Any time a player uses a possession, either by shooting the ball or turning it over, he adds to his usage rate. You know a high-usage player when you see one, even if you don't necessarily refer to them as such. They're the ball-hogs.

The average player has a 20 percent usage rate which should make plenty sense given that a team's possessions are divvied up amongst five teammates. Some players, like Joel Anthony who sported a miniscule 8.7 usage rate in 2010, will fall far below the 20 percent benchmark while other ball-dominant wings, like Dwyane Wade who lead the league with a 34.9 percent usage rate, will check out much higher. Each player's figure largely depends on their individual appetite for scoring as well as their role within the offense. It's a blend of nature and nurture.

Brown

LOS ANGELES -- Shannon Brown could have been in a Toronto hotel room on Tuesday night.

That's where the New York Knicks were, a team that sought to secure Brown''s services this summer once the dynamic guard opted out of his deal with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Instead, Brown was a key link in the Lakers'' full-circle ring ceremony -- accepting a warm introduction from playing-time competitor Sasha Vujacic and then delivering an intro for Derek Fisher worthy of what "El Presidente" means to the team -- and later dominating the fourth quarter to push Los Angeles over the top in a 112-110 season-opening win over the Houston Rockets.

Brown had 16 points and four steals for the game, with 14 of the points and three of the steals coming in the final quarter, when the Lakers erased a five-point deficit and Brown played all 12 minutes.