New season, new diet, new challenges
Losing the best basketball player on the planet in LeBron James was a big blow to the Miami Heat this off-season. Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh now have to carry on without the “Big 3” and clean up the shattered pieces of last year’s loss against the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals.
When asked about the loss, D. Wade kept it politically correct in saying they’re a different team, with new added faces like Luol Deng, Shabazz Napier, Danny Granger and Josh McRoberts over the course of the Summer. He also talked about filling the “big hole” of LeBron’s departure to his hometown of Cleveland and who are his Eastern Conference contenders going into next season.
Wade knows deep down the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers are at the top of the food chain. We’re not buying that “we’re 0-0 and everyone has to compete” line.
In related news, Bleacher Report also has a very in-depth interview with Dwyane where he talked about how last season wasn’t fun, remaining friends with LBJ, why he wants to play the game for the fun of it again and the future of the Heat.
“I mean, I just go back to before we ever played together. And I go back to the conversations and the media reports of, ‘How can you be friends with a guy and play against a guy? They didn’t do that back in the day. Magic [Johnson] and [Larry] Bird never did that.’ Me and LeBron, I’d go to Cleveland, we’d go to the movies. He’d come here, we’d hang out. And then we’d go on the court and we’d compete. And then after the game, that’s my boy. Then we got here, we teamed up, became even closer. And now it’s the same thing. You know, we’re still gonna be friends, and we’re still gonna compete our asses off. Until the day we can’t compete no more.”
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