Dwyane Wade
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283 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Dwyane Wade’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, first of all, thanks for the four verys. The VVVVVIP. I appreciate that. No, I have my own. It's like seeing someone else's kid and thinking you need another kid. I have my own. I have three of them.
Yeah, I've raised three of them already.
Okay. All right. That's my favorite one. Yeah, that was a good one.
Protect the product, baby. Protect the product.
Yeah. Oh, I was probably annoying as hell to my friends. Right after the championship in 06, LeBron had a bike-a-thon in Cleveland, and I was there. You don't go to Cleveland for a bike-a-thon after you win a championship. You go somewhere else. I was like, no, I want to show up. And I knew Mello was going to be there. I knew my guys were going to be there.
I wanted them to see that I was a champion. And they didn't have a championship yet. We were obviously all young. But yeah, getting that first one out of the way, I was 24 years old. I came in a little bit unheralded.
compared to the class that I was in and to be able to get that chip that chip very early yeah I was like okay all right now I got that out the way now I can focus on like my individual self a little bit yeah I can get a little selfish yeah go out to some awards and um but then after a couple years I was like okay this sucks
Yeah, because now I've actually felt what it feels like to host that trophy over my head. And so now it actually made it worse for my whole career because now I'm chasing that. Right. That feeling because nothing else feels like that no matter what I do.
So jealous.
No.
I mean, I wish you could have gotten in touch with me and let me know.
No, no, so I practice dumb shots all the time. I'm a firm believer in like, the moments where you're just in the gym by yourself is like really, really use your imagination. Like this is the time to just do all the dumb stuff because you never know when you're gonna need it. And so I personally used to, like I would fall a lot.
And so I would go in the gym and just like, I'll find angles on a backboard. You might hear this in like Kyrie and guys who are very good at it. I always was like, yo, if I'm getting in a point where I'm like in trouble, I need to be able to find a crack on a backboard that gives it an opportunity. And so I always used to play with going to gym and just play with shots.
And so when I have those moments and I'm falling, I just look at that little spot on the backboard like, oh, that's familiar. Let me put it there. Yeah. Yeah. And it works out sometimes.
Yeah, I think he gave it to me in 05, the first year. We won in our second year together, but 05, he gave it to me. And it was cool because at that time, if you didn't have a nickname, you was not cool. Everybody had a nickname who was a really good player, and I didn't have one. Dwyane Wade was not cool enough. Well, D-Wade is cool. Well, I worked hard to make D-Wade one name.
It was like you had to have one name, like Magic, Shaq, Kobe. Michael or MJ, whatever. You needed one name. So D-Way became my one name. But I also needed that alter ego. Yeah. Right? And Shaq kind of helped develop Superman and Flash.
No, absolutely not.
You see how big, you see how huge that is?
Well, we didn't have that problem.
Shaq already had. I got the easier part of Shaq. He already had a win through. He was one of the biggest stars in the world. He had three championships. He was so accomplished and secure by the time he got to Miami. And all he wanted to do was win him another ring. And so he knew that I was one of the ones that can help him get to that. And so he was amazing with me, man.
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