Dwyane Wade
Dwyane Wade
Dwyane Tyrone Wade Jr.is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association. He has established himself as one of the most well-known and popular players in the league. Wade had the top selling jersey in the NBA for nearly two years, leading the league in jersey sales from the 2005 NBA Playoffs, until the midpoint of the 2006–07 season. His first name is pronounced the same as the more common spellings "Dwayne" and "Duane"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth17 January 1982
CountryUnited States of America
I told him he's got to hold his end of the bargain up. I'm tired of carrying us.
I've talked to him a couple of times. It has always been short, but it's always been good things. He always told me to keep playing the way I play and to continue to carry myself the way I carry myself. I heard through the grapevine that one of the players in the NBA he likes to watch is me. That's a great thing.
They really wanted it tonight and it showed. I don't think our team was as focused as we should have been, especially on the defensive end of the floor.
They have the ball 100 percent of the time. They're doing a great job with their pick-and-rolls. It's very tough to guard them.
At halftime, he was really talking about going out and doing it. He came in and showed us the way and everybody else just followed him and kind of got what energy he brought.
At first, I wasn't really too pumped about it. But now as it gets closer, I think it's going to be a challenge.
That's something I'm going to play over and over again in my head and say I should have gone with the left. I got to the basket. I really wanted to go for the three; I wanted to go for the win. But once I came off (the screen) I had attacked the basket. And I got a good shot. It just wasn't meant to be because I don't miss that too often.
That's once in a lifetime right there. There are not many times when Shaq has been on the bench in the fourth quarter.
That's a big reason the trade was made so we'd have a lot of guns.
Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. That's history right there.
They just played with more energy than we did. Our team was not as focused on defense as it should be. In the first two games we sent them into our big guys. Today, with Shaq in foul trouble, it was a different story.
They've got the curse on us that we've got on Washington right now.
There's times where I felt we've been there. After winning those four in a row you feel like you can run off some, then one or two things happen.
It's just a respect factor. It's always going to be Coach Riley because of what he's done as a coach. He's still a coach.