Dwyane Wade has made it easy to forget Dwyane Wade.
For instance, during the 2014 NBA Finals, when the Miami Heat guard was getting turnstiled by anyone and everyone in a grey and white uniform, it was simple to overlook the fact that eight years earlier he submitted the greatest Finals’ performance of all time.
Likewise, during a 2013-14 season in which he sat out 24 games, played a career-low 32.9 minutes a night, and yet still posted lows in many statistical categories, many of us lost sight of the 2005-06 season where Wade led the NBA in scoring and the 2006-07 campaign when he paced the league in player efficiency rating.
This is the way it goes for aging athletes. As they struggle to meet the high bar they’ve set, we forget the vigor and brio with which they raised it in the first place. In the near term, they’re the worst enemy of their own legacies.
This dynamic has been even more corrosive for Wade, in part, oddly, because he hasn’t slipped all that much. He looks the same, he’s still an All-Star level player, so it’s easy to compare him to his prime iteration. And t ...
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Remember Dwyane Wade, the NBA Superstar?
September 30th, 2014 by Tom Sunnergren Leave a reply »
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