With LeBron in Rearview, Dwyane Wade Has Become ‘Benjamin Button’ of Miami Heat

January 7th, 2016 by Zach Buckley Leave a reply »

MIAMI — Unless the Miami Heat find a championship stride that seems possible but far from likely, this won't be the most productive season of Dwyane Wade's Hall of Fame-caliber career.

But it might be the most gratifying one the soon-to-be 34-year-old has ever played.

"The [games] I've played in, they haven't all been amazing," he said, "but I've enjoyed them from the standpoint of just being able to physically play and do the things I want to do on the floor. ... I always go back to how I felt two, three, four years ago now when I was in a lot of pain."

With nagging knee problems dating back to a surgery he had in college, it felt as if that pain—and the games lost to it—would be an uncomfortably persistent character in his final basketball chapter. Rolling back his odometer was impossible, and new miles proved tough to add with all the time he spent in the body shop.



But the narrative has changed in this, Wade's 13th NBA season.

He's taken the floor in 34 of Miami's first 35 games. And his lone absence wasn't injury-related—he was by the side of his then-h ...

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