Kobe Bryant has been under fire since last week when an interview came out and he talked about the Miami Heat’s support for Trayvon Martin. He even tried to clarify what he was saying, but some fans are still upset. Well over the weekend, Dwyane Wade reacted to Kobe’s comments.
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Via BleacherReport:
Wade has regard for—and a relationship with—Bryant, enough that he commonly refers to the Lakers great as “Kob.” Still, Wade acknowledged that he had a respectful “difference of opinion” with Bryant about the stand that Heat players took for slain teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012.
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Before Friday’s game in Detroit, which Wade missed with a sore hamstring, the Heat guard disputed the implication that Martin’s race was the overriding factor in the team’s decision to pose for the photo. He said that proximity also played a part. While Martin was killed in Central Florida, he grew up in the Miami area.
“It was our backyard, and being in our backyard, being something that a lot of guys on this team—not only growing up in the kind of environment that Trayvon was in—but also having young boys,” Wade told Bleacher Report. “Knowing that he is a big fan of the Miami Heat. That is something that we got behind. As a team. I can’t even say the organization. It was as a team. We got behind it. And it was more so that than the color of his skin.”
