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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You know, it's the nitpicking. Yeah, right. It's the nitpicking of things. Like, we were one of the greatest teams. We went to four finals in a row. Don't take my cookies away from me. Right, right. I need something.
Well, listen. Pat Riley, it's Pat Riley's show. I don't care who took the cookies.
In my eyes, everything comes from Pat. It doesn't matter. Pat, he's the beginning and the end. And so you're goddamn right. It comes from the beginning and the end in my eyes. And so that was just the first moment. LeBron didn't leave the heat because he didn't get warm chocolate chip cookies. But it's the things that when it comes to the nitpicking,
And like the Wild, when you're around each other for so long, and you've accomplished the things you came to accomplish, and you're around each other for so long, everything is not as funny as it used to be. Everyone is not as cool as they once was. And so once you start having these little things that start adding up and start building up, you start seeing it on a player.
You start seeing it wear on them. And I just saw him and I was like, oh boy.
Not really. It ain't like he wore it on his sleeve. LeBron keeps them cards close to his chest. I didn't really feel that my guy was leaving until we were in Vegas before he left. We all went to Vegas. He hosted his Nike camp, big camp. We all went to Vegas to go hang out and be guys. I could tell that he had a lot on his mind and there was some things he wanted to say that he was not saying.
But I just waited for him to tell me. I wasn't gonna go to him like, bro, you out? I could tell, I'm sure it was a hard decision for him and I'm sure it was hard to tell me and other guys. And so I just waited. I waited for him to have that conversation with me. Um, you know, but ultimately we'd had to have the conversation just like we did to team up. We had a conversation.
Well I think the one thing is is Chris Bosh was, Chris Bosh is in Toronto, right? And so once Chris Bosh got a chance to come out here and get, you know, everybody was like throwing flowers at his feet, he wavered a couple times on, like we didn't know if he was gonna be a part of, you know, the opportunity for us to play together.
And I think that he did a great job of keeping, once again, their cards close to their chest because we knew going into that summer that each team that was in position can get two star players, that everyone wanted two star players. And then the heat came out of nowhere. It was like, hey, we can get three. And so I think it changed something for us.
We all had a conversation about it and we realized we would like to play together, but at the same time, but go off and do what you need to do. Go have these interviews with these teams. And if something changes, then let's come back to the table. So it wasn't a hundred percent, but it was a conversation that we had going into a free agency.
Like, hey, we will all love to play together and this and that. And then, but also too, you gotta go off and you gotta see what's best for you. But ultimately, we would love to play together.
And it was times where like, you know, me and Brian get on the phone like, I think Chris, I don't know if Chris gonna, I don't know if he gonna, the Knicks telling him everything, the Bulls telling him everything he wanna hear, I don't know if he gonna, if he's gonna play in Miami. And also too with Brian too, I didn't know, because I'm not in his meetings, right?
And with me, when I came to Chicago and I got a chance to go in there and grab that Chicago Bulls jersey, I was back at home in the mirror like,
and now you know what i mean like i went back to that kid from chicago so i think it was a moment where all of us was like we probably wavered and i thought of like man this looks good for me um even though we had the conversation about playing together and that was and that people think it was like two years before it was not it was like three years yeah it was not it wouldn't we don't give us that much credit how how long for real was it like it was free agency time
Well, I mean, once people started getting a little inside that we were thinking about playing together, we got a couple calls. So we would get calls from Amari was a free agent. Boozer was a free agent. And so we had to look and see if those personalities and those talents, if it obviously worked with us.
Because I think it was, Brown and I were both committed to playing together, once we committed to playing together. And it was really important who that third person was. And we knew all along that if we were gonna do this, that Chris Bosh was, the choice. He wasn't like another, it wasn't another option from the standpoint of this is our first option just because of our talents already together.
It was hard vision how we're both gonna be successful at the same time because we're both ball dominant guys. And you need somebody else to kind of like relieve that. And Chris Boss was the reliever in that for us. More than like Omari or more than even Boozer.
I don't know. Brian talked to Boozer. They had already played together in Cleveland.
Yeah, and I talked to Amari because me and Amari, we had a cool relationship. So I actually was trying to get Amari there the year before. I was trying to get Amari to the Heat before. And I didn't think – this was the, what, 2009 All-Star weekend. I was trying to get us to trade for Amari. I'm like, listen, let's do it now.
And the Heat was like, no, we're trying to be patient. And so I'm like, all right, well, patient going to get me out the door. you know what I mean, type thing. And so it didn't work, but Amari, Brown and I would have been dominant, but at the same time, it's a totally different game than Chris Bosh.
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