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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Nobody works harder than Spoh Strum.
Yeah, man, it was so tough. It's so easy to say words. I think we all know that. It's easy to say something. You know, I'm all in, coach. Okay, what does all in mean? Are you really all in? Do you understand what it's going to take? I think – When I look at that first year, think about we all coming from competing versus each other to be the very best in this game.
We were still competing versus each other, even though we were teammates. Not in a bad way. Just like, all right, Brian, you didn't score six straight. Now I'm about to score six straight. All right, D, you didn't do that. Chris, let me get in the mix. So we were still, we still had that competitiveness amongst each other, trying to learn how to play together and be teammates, right? Yeah.
And then after we lost in the finals, that's humbling. We all got some humble pie very quickly, and we realized if this was going to work, then we had to do this a little different. And so you saw in that second year, you saw us come back a total different team with a total different mindset, that we actually started believing the stuff that we said we was going to do. But it takes time.
This doesn't just happen when you snap your fingers and say, I want it to happen. It took a little time. It took us one year to lose and to get humbled in front of the world and everybody to be If it was podcast all of the time, we would have been the number one topic.
It was a very nasty thing said about us at that time. But outside of that, man, we had a goal. We sacrificed a lot to be able to play together. And so we had to accomplish that. It was no other answer. We have to accomplish this goal. And our goal was to win, not just to get there. And so we came back in year two.
And we started actually believing the things that we said, the mottos that we would say, the things that we would say to the media, the things we would say to each other. We started believing it because you start seeing sacrifice amongst guys. We weren't sacrificing at first.
We were hooping and we were very good at it, but it takes sacrifice to especially have that much talent and to be able to have all that work together, right? You gotta give up shots. You gotta give up your body. You gotta give up minutes. You gotta do all these things that you don't wanna do. And it's easy to say it and it's harder to do.
And so we had to allow coach to coach us a little bit, right? We had to allow ourselves to, like Brian had to allow me to coach him. I had to allow him to coach me. It was a lot that we had to learn about each other from that first year to that second year. But ultimately we needed to win and we wanted to win and we were going to figure it out. And so we did.
I mean, right away. Go to the first game. We figured it out. Like coming back, we had a, think about it. It was an, we had a long off season. Think about losing the championship and then having a, we had an NBA lockout. That sucked because all you want to do is get right back to it. But we had a long off season to think about this. And so first game was in Christmas day in Dallas.
We came, I think we won by like 40 on that day. We came in with the mentality right away in training camp. The first year in training camp, we were still against each other, right? We still was trying to show that we all some bad boys. We came back in that second year and we were trying to become a team. We were trying to show that we could play together.
And, you know, I think we all felt it right away. And, you know, give credit to LeBron. You know, LeBron came back a different player than he was. I mean, what we start seeing LeBron in those next couple of years, was one of the greatest runs we've ever seen when it comes to professional athlete.
And so he came back an even better player that put all of us in our roles and our positions a little bit.
We didn't, we didn't deal with none of that in Miami. Okay. So you spread his angry tattoos that we go.
Not in Miami.
No.
Not in Miami.
Not in Miami. I'm focused on the years. Not in Miami. Cleveland, I was a shell of myself. That don't even count.
So that's pretty good. Every time I watch a Cav game and I hear them say D. Wade, it's crazy to me.
Yeah, no, it's crazy. I laugh every time that it's another D-Wade and he's so different from me. Yes, very different. Yeah, different complexion for sure. But I think it's kind of cool too when I watch him. I'm like, oh, it's still a D-Wade in the game.
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