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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God puts people in your path. You have to recognize who these people are. I recognize those people throughout my journey and I stay connected to them to help me get to that next level.
And so I knew that I wanted to be that, but it was the work every day and it was the recognizing of, and being honest and looking in the mirror of myself when I wasn't that good, when I wasn't doing the things that I was supposed to do, really holding myself accountable to that, to being one of the greatest ever played a game in 20 years.
I have a statue.
That is a statue. I wasn't thinking like you guys were thinking. I wasn't thinking like the photo that went out and everybody liked to say. I wasn't thinking about that, guys. Come on, man.
Yeah, yeah. Listen, I get it. Give me all the jokes. Actually, some of them were fucking hilarious, by the way. Some of them, I saved them in my phone. I was like, I got to come back and laugh at this one later. But no, I wasn't thinking about that. Once again, my mind goes beyond that. My mind goes to my kids. My mind goes to small kids from the inner city of Chicago. I go to all that.
Now, you guys have a job to do. You got a job to do. You got a job to do. Your job to do is to make sure that you get as many clicks as possible. My statue became something that you guys can talk about that will get you clicks. Yes. Have at it.
No, they're tough. Yeah, they're tough. I keep telling people is I was there alone like the whole process, right? It was an incredible process. But from clay to bronze, it's two totally different things. Mm-hmm. It's two totally different statues from clay to bronze. And so in clay, I was like, oh, yeah, this is going to go down in history as one of the greatest statues ever.
In bronze, it looks way different. Everything is hardened. Right. So it's very different in clay. Yeah. than it is in bronze.
It's real intense. Yeah. So it was very strong, like jaw structures. And you know what I mean? And then too, like everyone gets to look up at me with my mouth open and yelling with these strong, like, I trust me, I understand. But in clay, it's soft. It looks a little different. I look a little bit more like me. And then you put it in bronze. And then obviously, and I was trying to educate people.
I said, also, you put it in bronze and it has to stand strong in Miami forever. That is an extra dip in bronze. That is an extra this, extra that. It's even harder. It's even darker. And so I think that my first reaction, once I got to reaction was, damn, it's darker than I thought it was going to be. Because every statue has different complexions of bronze complexion.
But because mine needs to weather the storm, Mine had to be a little bit more. It had to get a little bit more care on it in a sense. And so it was definitely darker than I wanted it to be. But like the expression that I wanted it to have, it had the expression. It just hit a little, my cheekbones a little stronger.
Yeah. I mean, you could put everybody that plays sports in one room to have a statue. Yeah. You can't fill this room up. No. So it's an elite class. Yeah. And listen, I think as long as people are making bronze statues, it's going to be hard to capture it to look the way that everybody's going to want it to look. Someone is going to figure it out where it's going to look exact one day.
But it is a really tough process. And it didn't hurt me that everyone was talking jokes. I just, the people who worked so hard on it, man. The families. That to me, I was just like, but also too, once you put your work out there, it's open for interpretation, for people to say what they wanted to say. And people said a lot that they wanted to say. But ultimately,
What I wanted, and it's still happening, I still get at it every day of a family, a kid, an individual, they go and they take a photo at the statue. I was actually there one night. Here's the story about it. I was there one night when I was in Miami, late night, to go see the statue for myself away from everyone, just me and my crew.
and it's this it was like three in the morning and it was a guy who walked up to see the statue now mind you i'm behind the statue i'm looking at all the details he's not even at the statue yet he's walking up and he's like oh man they fucked my man up and so i come around the statue i said bro did you even look at the statue or are you going off of everything you heard like come here let's take a let's take a look at this statue for a minute
But he just automatically walked up with his own.
Yeah, I'm like, hey, come get a better look. Matter of fact, how about you look from up top? Everybody looking from down here, right? But no, he took a couple steps back and was like. Oh man, I didn't, no, you did. You said it, I heard you. I heard you when you weren't here. But it's all good. Like, I just want to, if I lived in Miami, I'd just pop up at the statue any time. Like, say something.
Me and UD are sitting there like, say something. But it's all love, man.
One of our best accomplishments. Yeah.
So... Yes, at some point. I remember being a kid watching the Top 50. It was in Cleveland when they did it. They had the leather jackets. They had the leather jackets. I remember being a kid and watching some of my favorite players all be on the Top 50. And I thought, one of the coolest moments in the NBA to be in that list. And I didn't know when they would ever do another list.
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