With the Miami Heat's 2015-16 season hanging in the balance Friday night, there was zero doubt who would command control of their crunch-time offense. If Sunday's win-or-go-fishing Game 7 is similarly close, the story won't change.
Dwyane Wade is more than Miami's franchise face.
With Chris Bosh still sidelined and LeBron James back in Northeast Ohio, Wade is the club's undisputed leader in both stature and statistics. While he's perhaps a half-step behind the NBA's uber-elite in the court of public opinion, Wade could show everyone how much star power he still has with a(nother) dominant performance.
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Of course, his heroic showing late in Game 6 may have already started that momentum. Miami's series-extending 97-90 win over the Charlotte Hornets featured a team-high 23 points from Wade (plus six rebounds, four assists, three blocks and two steals), including 10 during the fourth quarter and eight over the final three minutes, six seconds.
Whatever the Heat needed, their leader incredibly delivered: a pair of three-pointers—his first since mid-December—an incredible fadeaw ...
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Dwyane Wade Has Epic Chance to Remind Us of His Greatness in Game 7
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