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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Yeah. Mike ain't spending none of that money. No, he did say he didn't play cards. Mike Miller ain't spending none of that money since he got to the NBA.
This is what we here for, everybody. If you ain't signing up for this, then don't sign up here. At this point, once you're just playing in the NBA and you're playing games and you're going home, first round or regular season, I wanna feel something. I wanna be a part of something that's just really bigger than me. And that's what we signed up for.
And so if you signed up to play with the Miami Heat, you signed up for pressure. That's where you feel alive. We want it to feel alive. And so we welcome the pressure. You want to see how you respond and how you can you succeed in the midst of this pressure. And so I loved it. I didn't mind. And you can see the ones who will weed themselves out when it came to the pressure moments.
But Mike was a gamer. Mike didn't have no thumbs. Mike didn't have no toes. He was injured all the time when he played with us. I felt bad for him, man, because Mike can play. That was one of the guys that Brian really wanted to play with. Like Brian wanted Mike, I wanted UD. These are the guys who was like, hey, this don't work without this guy and that guy.
And so we made sure, and they also made sure by taking the pay cuts that they were there.
He played 20. Yeah, he played 20 years with the Heat.
Well, he's the culture carrier. You know what I mean, he's the voice. And when UD say something, everybody listen. I don't care what stature, I don't care if you're averaging 30, 40 points a game, when UD stand up and say something, you gonna listen. And also too, he ran Miami, so. You couldn't go nowhere without people tapping on your shoulder and you know it's UD, UD got eyes on you.
You know what I'm saying? But it's just certain people that just have your respect. And it ain't about what they're accomplishing this, it's about what they do every day. He's an everyday guy. And you respect the guy that come and give everything they have to get every ounce out of their ability every day. And don't bitch and moan about it. Just go about his business, put his hard head on.
And so he's the guy and we all respect him, man. Brian, respect him just as much as I did. Pat Rowley respected him just as much as anybody. And so, you know, on the outside, when people say, you know, anything about UD, you know, on the inside, you understand that he's one of the most important voices the Miami Heat has ever had in the organization. Yeah. Yeah.
And if I ever become a coach, which I won't be, he'd be on my staff. Yeah. Go get him. You never want to coach? I mean, do you see these contracts? I don't know. Listen, never know.
It's all it takes. You've got a good podcast. If you think so.
Fire me. Yeah. Give me that five years and then let me go out to two.
No, it's a miserable job though.
Is he going to come back down? No, we didn't want that.
I mean, you know, I was I was I was a star player when Spol got his first head coaching job. And so, you know, I was there alone, the bumps and the bruises of a first time coach. Right. But by the time Brown and them came to Miami, I think he was about two, three years on the job, you saw the big improvement as a coach.
He had his strengths right away, and his strengths was you're going to be prepared. Right. His preparation is incredible. His work ethic is off the chart. But there's a lot of other things that goes into coaching besides that. And then by the time Brown came, he was a little bit better at it. And then, you know, after we lost in that finals, he went on to start reinventing himself.
You know, Spohr is one of those guys that will go into football locker rooms and other sports to see some of the other great coaches, what they're doing, how they're involving players. And you start seeing his, he started evolving every year as a coach. And I mean, obviously he's one of the greatest now. But when he first got the job, I was like, what are we doing? Who is this?
And I had a great relationship with Spoh. He was the guy who helped me with my game early on. He was my workout guy. He was in the video room and he had come up and helped me work out after practice. So we had a great relationship, but then he got handed the head coaching job and I'm like, wait, wait, what we doing?
And then, but to see his work ethic, to see the staff that was put around him, shout out to David Fisdell, Keith Askins, these tough guys, Ronnie Rothstein, they put a good staff around him and allow him to grow, make mistakes. You have to have that. You cannot bring a young coach in and fire him within the first three years.
You have to give them space and time to learn how to be a coach, especially in the professional league. And so Spoh has that, and he had that with Pat. And so he wasn't going anywhere. Pat let everybody know that you will get out of here before he leaves. Well, now he got time to become a great coach because he is comfortable sitting in his seat, but he works his tail off.
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