Dwyane Wade was part of the original superteam that was constructed via free agency so he really has no choice but to support the idea of teams like that being good for the league. When he, Lebron and Chris Bosh got together, they were loved in Miami but essentially hated everywhere else. Regardless of the hate or love people had though, they all had one thing in common. They would be tuned in to watch and that was good for the NBA. Wade echoed that sentiment yesterday when asked about Durant and the Warriors and it if hurts the league.
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“I think certain moments — it’s great,” Wade said. “At the end of the day, whether you dislike the Heat or you loved the Heat, you was tuning in to watch the Heat, right? Same thing with Golden State. Whether you dislike what happened with Kevin Durant or whatever the case may be, you’re going to tune into watch, whether you want him to succeed or fail.
“Our game is growing. Eyes are on our game. And at the end of the day, me as a player, I just love the fact that players have the ability to control their own destiny”.
He does admit that the early criticism he, along with Bron & Bosh faced was tough, which is something the Warriors are dealing with now even though they only added one new player.
“That first year was a tough year for us,” he said. “You’ve got guys who at that time had been in this league, and fans love. Media wasn’t too bad on us either. And everything turned because we decided to play together.
“From a competitive standpoint you love that it was sold out every time you go to the arena, but just the things that people had to say about us deciding to play the game of basketball together — there was a lot of negative attention on that. We took the hit of that.”
At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is the basketball being played on the court and once they got past all the other nonsense it was game on.
“But hey, we did what we wanted to do and that’s what it always came back to us. After that first year, that’s when we got back to playing the game, enjoying the game, whatever comes with it. When it became, ‘We came together to win championships, let’s take care of business.”’
