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Man. [sighs]
[sniffles]
Um... [sniffles]
That's it.
My headache... My head is pounding.
Last night was mad real.
My emotions is still all over the place.
I can't believe it's over.
I'm so [bleep] thankful though.
[sniffles]
I don't have anything to to say.
[baby crying]
[announcer speaking indistinctly]
[announcer] Oh, baby, what a play!
To the left, dribble. What a play by Dwyane Wade!
Wade with the steal... Wade puts it up, to the rim.Yes!
-[crowd cheers] -[announcer] He's done it! Dwyane Wade!
[announcer continues indistinctly]
[interviewer] So all right, Dwyane,
We've been doing these interviews for quite some time.
We've been, um-- ten years worth of interviews.
We've covered a lot.
I guess, I'm trying to figure out--
Where do you think we should start? Where should we begin?
I don't know.
[Wade] Everything I've been through in my life,
was all unexpected.
From my childhood,
and to my family.
Cool Dad.
[Wade] My relationship with Gab...
-Kaavia... -[speaking indistinctly]
[Wade] So, I try to think about how blessed and how lucky I am
to even have all these things in my life.
[crowd chanting] We want Wade! We want Wade!
[reporter] Dwyane Wade is one of
the four greatest shooting guards of all time.
[reporter 1] A career for the record books.
[reporter 3] Greatest player in franchise history.
[reporter 4] You can't overstate what tonight is.
[Wade] But with 20,000 screaming for you,
it covers up a lot.
There comes a point in time where...
it's just you in front of the mirror.
And that mirror gonna tell all.
But I'm only 37. Like...
I'm still figuring it out.
And that's just the nature of life.
[indistinct chatter]
[over radio] This is Zack Harris from Chicago.
That wraps up an hour commercial-free.
[reporter] Michael Jordan and the Bulls
against the Milwaukee Bucks this afternoon at the stadium.
You're gonna see Michael Jordan just put on a magnificent...
[Wade] If I look back on my childhood,
it's really like telling somebody else a story.
It's not like it was me.
You know, it's like, it's so many...
parts of my life that's like when...
I hear my sister or I hear my cousin
or I hear my brothers, or someone talk about our life,
it's really like, "Oh, my God! Yes."
That did happen! But...
When you're growin' up in the hood,
you don't have time to stop and feel sorry for yourself.
You don't have time to give up and quit and just say,
"Woe me." No one cares.
No one cares enough.
So you gotta keep moving.
[Wade Sr.] Chicago, it was rough, man, you know?
Back then I was just getting out the army and uh...
His mother was on public aid.
It's something we had to get used to, man, being poor.
[Jolinda] You know our neighborhood that we come from,
there was a lot of gangbanging,
and smoking pot and droppin' pills.
And food's low. Sometimes them dishes we had to hook up for them.
You look at it today,
and you'd be like, man, "Would I feed my dog that?"
And that was a pretty... pretty heavy time for us
Because me and Wade were very young.
[Wade Sr.] We were off and on.
We broke up when I was overseas in Panama.
And when I came back to the United States,
we got back together again and we had Dwyane.
[Jolinda] When Dwyane was born, I thought that naming him after his dad,
will probably boost our relationship.
But I wasn't mature enough for what was happening.
Made a decision one particular day
that I was gonna come up out of this marriage.
And I did. I left our... relationship.
And I went back on 59th Street to my mom.
And then eventually, got caught up in my own foolishness.
[Wade] Obviously at first, you don't really understand or know
even like, what drugs are.
But as you get older, you know, you start to see...
So my mother, I remember having a conversation with my mom.
She thought she did a great job of hiding it from me.
And I was like, "No, Mom, I watched you shoot up.
Like, I was right there in the room."
'Cause she was so, you know, in her addiction,
she didn't... she didn't compute it that I was sitting right there.
[Jolinda] I thought I had it together.
They were eating, okay, I got 'em upstairs.
I got 'em bathed, they in bed,
I can go out and do wham.
You know, so this pattern and stuff kept keepin' on and keepin' on
until I was spending last time with them
and more time now with my new best friend,
which was heron and that life.
My ma became mama to 'em.
He used to sit up under her at two, three in the morning
outside because he couldn't sleep. He wanted to see me
while I'm out there in the street, drinking, druggin',
I walk by, see him on the porch.
I felt like...
You know, God blessed me with this son and I can't even raise him.
I done turned into this?
That's heavy.
[Wade] I watched her daily, go through this pain.
You know what I mean? I watched someone full of life
and it was someone I love, like...
I watched her slowly, like, kill herself.
And that was tough... that was tough to, like...
to compute as a young kid.
But for me, how I made it work for me,
it was like, I will never experience nothing worse than that
so bring it on. What you got?
No lights? Cool. No food, I'm hungry. Cool.
Like, what you got? Because I will never experience nothing
that will hurt my heart as much as me watching someone--
the person at this time that I love more than anything,
you know, die.
[Tragil] Everything is gone now.
A lot of this is just lots. But it was very popular.
It was where we come and do laundry as well.
My granny, this is where my granny would do all her laundry.
There was a laundromat set right here.
And this was a laundromat that would give my Grandmama the clothes
that people leave in the dryer... and give it to us.
So that's where a lot of our clothes came from.
When people would leave them in the dryer.
[horn honks]
[laughing] Yo! Comin' to this building...
It looks like this whole...
it's like they shrunk the whole... whole porch!
As a kid, this porch looked humongous!
So, this is where we kinda lived our life on this porch.
My grandmama was protective of us
'cause they sold drugs literally right there! [chuckles]
And right there, they used to have the drugs, like, in the poles.
So in this block right here,
you gotta think about the use of drugs,
and the sale of drugs.
So this is also the house where
my mother opened up the doors for the drug dealers.
This the hottest house.
I mean, this house so hot, like, just--just--
Just people going back and forth. Police would sit and watch 'em.
They'd watch 'em. But our house was the hottest block
so when you're talking about raids, we probably had raids...
Man, a couple times-- they'd come three, three or so times a year
They knew-- police knew this was the hottest house.
[Wade] You know, we had a plan, you know.
Police come, we go out the back door.
My grandma lived on the third floor, we lived on the first.
So you go out the back door, you run upstairs to your grandma,
Bang on it, you know, blah-blah-blah.
So me and my sister, we had a plan.
And then one time where, you know, my sister,
she got out before me and normally I get out before her
and I had to stay down in the house.
I said, "Stay right here, I'll be back."
He was like, "No, Mama said for me to go with you."
I said, "No, stay right here."
So I'm walkin' out and again
this house-- this looked humongous.
It was the police running up the stairs with a gun like this.
[Wade] All I remember was...
it was a silver gun. Never seen one like this in my life.
And it was just coming through the door first.
And I remember trying to, like, hide and get under the bed.
And they pulled me up and I remember gettin' in front of them
and they put the gun in the back of my head
and they said, "Take me to your mother."
Like, at that time, being a young kid, and like, you know,
police put a gun at the back of my head.
It was like-- I'll never forget that. Never.
You know, as long as I live, I will never forget that moment.
It was traumatizing, you know what am I saying?
[Tragil sighs]
Back in like '92, or something like that, I can remember,
my mother had to do two years in jail and so...
I just had this thing inside of me, just was like, "enough is enough."
He deserved more. He deserved better. He's no need for him to be hungry.
I knew what my dad was always at,
he was always at his girlfriend's house at the time, named Bessy.
And I knew he was always over there. So, I took a chance.
I took a gamble that day to go by there.
And I knew that there was boys there.
'Cause Bessy had kids.
We ended up on the bus.
As soon as we pull up,
we seen the boys playin'.
And I'm like, "You want to go out there?
You wanna go?" And he was like, "Yeah."
And so, I left.
And reality is I don't remember coming back.
They-- I don't remember coming back to get him.
[Wade] Coming from my mom's side of the family,
where I had all sisters, to move into my dad's,
where I got two brothers around the same age,
Uh, that was fun.
I was into the new family, my brothers, basketball, and sports.
And... beatin' each other up and [chuckles] boxing and all...
Everything my dad had us doing so my brain was focused on
where I was at. And I really wasn't thinking about
the other side of my family as much.
[Wade] We had a rap, we even had songs...
[woman] What was the name of your rap group
when you was younger?
Real Trash.
[woman] What was your name? What was your stage name?
Uh, we didn't have individual names.
-[woman] It was just-- -[man] You're talking about Real Trash?
Yeah, we was Real Trash.
[woman] And that was your lifelong dream?
No, it was my daddy's dream.
-[laughter] -He was a little bit like Joe Jackson.
[laughter]
"Who put up all the-- Get in and sing, boy, get in here and sing!"
[woman] So bust a line or two.
Yeah, I remember the whole rap song.
-[woman] So, come on! -It's terrible though.
[woman] But it's supposed to be. You were, like, 12.
All right.
[rapping] We was makin' all the passes,
yeah, cuttin' smooth.
Shootin' the three, yeah, we was in the groove.
So we thought we set out to make a name for ourselves.
We thought of a rap called the B-ball Express.
So check it out, check it out, check it out, my friends.
Let Real Fresh show you how it began.
I'm down with the A's 'cause I like it like that.
I'm down with B's, you see my daddy taught me that.
I'm still down with grades and give your mind a rest,
so take me back to the first, the B-ball Express.
So that was like the first verse.
[woman] That was kinda hot. What are you talking about?
That was kinda hot.
[Wade Sr.] From where you came from 59th Street to us moving to Robbins
and having our own house, think it benefitted him.
In those days, man, we were singing, we was doing plays,
we was playing basketball.
Uh, what wasn't we doing, man.
I made this basketball court on top of the garage.
So they wouldn't have to leave the yard to play, so...
everybody in the neighborhood could come.
And I had him play against grown-ups, You know what I'm sayin'?
That's what toughened him up.
We'd knock him down, beat him up,
They cry, they can't leave the court. If you cry, you can't eat.
You know, stuff like that. [laughs]
Real tough, man.
[Wade] My dad played with us and he wouldn't give us an inch, man.
He played against us like we was grown-ass men.
You know what I'm saying? And like...
And it went from crying... to fear...
to... "Wait a minute. Like, this is... this is just how it is.
This is how it has to be"
to "I want it no other way."
It--it actually became everything probably way before I even knew
that it was my everything.
You know as I got...
You know, close to my teen years,
like, I could think of nothing else.
I was surprised I even passed in school because...
on my mind, I'd be daydreaming in class, I'd be thinking about,
like, when I'm gonna get a chance to hoop.
[Antoine] Dwyane was working all the time. It was a constant thing for him.
No one wanted to play longer than him...
No, like, he's gonna be out there from the start to the finish
and then you still gotta drag him off the court.
Like he just loved it.
And he just started getting better. And better and better...
And everyone could kinda see the potential.
[Wade Sr.] Dwyane was more of a finesse player.
He could play everything. He can be a defensive player,
he could rebound, he could do it all.
So I was like, "Yeah,
give him a couple of years, he gonna be nice."
[reporter] There isn't anything Dwyane Wade can't do.
Besides his overwhelming skill, modesty stands out.
You tell him he's great,
he'll tell you there's more he can work on.
[Wade] I haven't accomplished much.
I haven't accomplished as much as think I could.
But I accomplished enough for
you know, a high school basketaball player.
[Jack] He knows the game, he knows how to play...
His basketball instincts are just... just unbelievably good.
So I knew I had something special.
[Tragil] I remember the coach at the time
tell people, "Come and see about this kid."
And he got these reporters to do something on Dwyane.
Listen, that was humongous.
So now he's in all these papers.
They just kept writin' about this kid and how great he's doing.
[Antoine] He knew how good he was then.
He was just blocking shots, dunkin',
He did whatever he wanted to do.
[Jack] I remember playing two games in one day.
And at a timeout, I just say, "Hey, look, man,
we are not running an equal-opportunity offense here, okay?
I said, for Christ's sake, will you go attack the basket.
Don't worry about all your assists, and just go get...
go get the ball and score."
And he proceeded to score 90 points in two games.
I talked to pops, talked about it on the phone,
he told me that this was a legendary place to play.
And I think this is going in the books as a legendary game.
[players cheering]
[Antoine] With that, you know, of course you're gonna have girls now.
He didn't have a ton of girls, but... [laughs]
He didn't have a ton of girls, but it was the start.
So, that's when he met Vaughn.
[Wade] Siohvaughn Funches was my high-school girlfriend.
16 years old, and it was cool.
Siohvaughn had her own car, she had a job, money, this and that.
So it was fun.
And, um...
we just spent a lot of time together
because, for one, it got me away from the noise
and everything that was going on in my house.
[Wade Sr.] There was a lot going on at that time
You know, like, I was having a drinking problem.
Me and my wife wasn't really getting along the way we... you know, we should've been.
And, you know, it took a toll on the kids.
[Wade] It was just toxic.
Him and my stepmom always getting into arguments and fights,
a lot of things that kids should not have been hearing
was going on in the household.
Then I got to a point where I-I needed, like, calm and quiet.
And I couldn't find it.
And I started getting to the point where, like, I started to understand,
"I'm not gonna accomplish what I want to accomplish here."
And... and I left.
I left my dad's house at 16 years old.
I went and lived with Siohvaughn and her mom.
At Siohvaughn's, I have support.
You know, somebody to be there to tell you that you are great.
You know, "You're gonna... you're gonna be this... You're gonna become this."
So, that kinda what it was.
You know, early on. You know, and...
it was what I needed as a 16, 17, 18-year-old kid.
You know?
[reporter] Dwyane Wade has earned a scholarship at Marquette University
by scoring over 24 points a game
and displaying a wicked ability to throw weak stuff off the wall.
I'm thinking about going somewhere where I can make a difference and, um...
you know, somewhere where I can make an impact and
you know, I feel I want to make Marquette a different program
with our other teammates that's coming in.
[Wade] When I got the opportunity to go to college at Marquette,
I was actually excited about...
leaving Chicago but not being too far away.
I think my nervousness came from just not knowing what to expect.
[Tom] I'll never forget, he came in, he had a big giant Nike duffle bag.
And he had a garbage bag.
He had-- that was his belongings.
[Wade] At first it was tough because I didn't pass my ACT.
I had to have a red-shirt year. I was able to practice with the team
but I wasn't able to travel with the team
and I wasn't able to play in games.
Um, so, I did all the hard work
and then wasn't able to get any of the benefits.
Well, last year, I thought it was a little frustrating at first,
but this year, I'm excited to play.
[Wade] But in the summer, way before I played my first game,
I found out Siohvaughn was pregnant with Zaire.
[Tragil] I was like, "What?! She's pregnant?!
What do you mean she's pregnant?!"
Like, "What?! You're a freshman, you got college to take care of,
you can't take care of no kids!
Matter of fact, you don't even need to play basketball no more,
we havin' kids now!
Why we playin' basketball? Uh-uh. Nope."
[Wade] I'm comin' to practice and I'm tryin' to make it work.
But it's just not workin'.
I'm just not there because I'm like, "What the hell just happened?"
[whistle blowing]
And that's when Coach Crean pulled me outside, like,
"What... what the hell is going on with you?"
You know? I just broke down.
"Siohvaughn's pregnant. I'm about to have a kid,
my career and my life is over."
Coach let me cry on his shoulders and he said, "Listen...
We're gonna get through this."
And I kept crying but inside, I felt good because I was looking for that.
I needed somebody to...
to tell me it's just gonna be all right.
And "I got you."
Zaire Wade was born.
Proudest moment of my life.
And then everything had come in mind, like,
"I'm gonna be such a great dad. I'm gonna be way better than my dad."
You know, that kind of thing comes in right away.
And... I was excited
but I was also nervous as hell at the same time because...
I'm a kid. And I'm trying to find my way in this world
and I'm bringing a kid into this world.
And we ain't got no money. Like, life was still struggles.
[giggles] Hi!
[indistinct chatter]
[indistinct chatter continues]
[crowd cheers]
[whistle blows]
Hey! We gonna get it!
A lot of late hours doing this, bruh.
[Wade] Yo, Z.
Yo, Z, come here, bro.
Hey, yo, y'all like, um...
you know, take the girls to do a little karaoke?
You get some of y'all homies together, go to karaoke one night, bro,
and tell 'em it's a good time, bro.
-What? -Dad, we are not 40.
We don't karaoke.
Like, do y'all go miniature golf, y'all go to Top Golf?
-One time. -Yeah.
[Wade] 'Cause that's an old White man sport, homeboy.
I'm 36, bro, but I'm still cool, all right?
I know you think you're cool and get some of the swag
[Zaire] I hear ya, I hear ya. I'mma try it out.
70% of your swag is from me.
-Hold on. -This guy.
[Wade] Zaire Wade just became a stud because you're my son.
I heard him calling him "Young Flash"
And to me it was about, that's cool...
but I wanna give him his own name.
I was Young Flash.
Like, he ain't me, he's Zaire, bro. He has his own self, his own person.
We're not about to make him Young D Wade or Young Z Wade.
-So everybody give him his own. -Ugh, boy, say that one time.
It was hard when I had you, bro, I was broke.
And I was trying to start my career, bro, I was like, "Oh, naw!"
-You all right? -No!
But it worked out, bro.
We built it together, bro, we did this together.
[crowd cheering]
[Crean] His freshman year, Dwyane had been sitting out.
So he didn't have confidence yet.
But sophomore year,
once he started to play, and once he started to get on the court,
now you started to see some of that drive.
[announcer] In from the right to the basket!
Try it off the glass, big shot!
[Wade] Zaire was the motivation to do something great.
[announcer] Now with nine, back the other way,
[announcer 2] Now this is a typical Dwyane Wade type of play.
He just makes basketball plays at both ends of the court.
[Wade] Marquette at this time, they didn't have a athlete like me.
The little fanbase that we had was going crazy.
And I'm like, "Oh. Oh, this is nice."
[cheering]
[Wade] And I didn't stop. I kept going, man.
And I'm having a good year.
In the summer, Siohvaughn and I got married.
[Wade] No matter what, my wife's always gonna be at home.
And with pressure and with stress and all, that go on with the basketball season,
I can always go home to my family and my son, and just play with him.
And kids make me feel that much better.
So as I'm going into this next year,
and I'm building this... this name for myself,
my mom has finally turned her life around.
It gets to a point, you know, I didn't want to keep living like that.
And even though I was going back and forth to jail,
I straightened up and I made it my business to stay sober.
[Wade] My mom has missed all of my high school games.
She's missed all of my college games.
She's never really seen me play basketball.
And also she's never met Zaire either.
My junior year, I got word that...
my mom was gettin' out of jail.
We immediately got to her probation officer.
Everyone was beggin' him to allow her to come see me play.
And I was just thinking, like,
"Damn, we're here." Like, you know what I mean?
Like, everything I went through.
And we was at this point.
Where it was this... it all came together.
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] It's a sellout crowd on hand at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.
Marquette in championship week play for a championship today.
[Jolinda] They released me to go to that big game
and I saw all those people.
And they had these signs up, and guess who's name was on them.
My baby.
And they was chanting, "Wade! Wade! Wade!"
[cheering]
I mean, Dwyane from 59th St., mama a dope fiend,
daddy, you know-- uh... My baby? This him?
[Wade] It's not a normal game.
This was for us to clinch a conference championship.
It was amazing just watching my mom go crazy in the stands.
I was ballin'.
Life felt like it was... it was good.
Life felt good.
[announcer] ...champions. It's done here at the Bradley Center.
Fans on the floor, players on the floor.
[Wade] That was my biggest game at the time of my college career.
And after that, we go to the NCAA Tournament,
You know, thanks for just coming out and supporting us,
and, uh, you know, we wanna bring back the National Championship for y'all
because, you know, we deserve to be champions.
[indistinct chatter and laughing]
[reporter] You get all the attention around here.
There's a whole crowd right there.
[reporter] Marquette meets Kentucky with a spot in the Final Four
[Wade] I was just like, yo, I'm gonna give it everything I got.
[reporter] Incredible performance.
He can really put it up and soar.
[Crean] It was phenomenal how he played.
[announcer] The Golden Eagles of Marquette University
are bound for the Final Four for only the third time ever.
First triple-double in Marquette in nine years.
How are you able?
Triple double.
[reporter] Yeah, you almost had ten blocks.
[Crean] Even though we lost the Final Four,
I thought he was gonna be an NBA player.
And I said to him, it's gonna be one thing to be a father,
it's gonna be one thing to be a husband.
It's gonna be a whole other thing now.
Are you ready to emotionally go do this
and have to lead your own life?
He said, "I think I am. I think I am."
[horn blaring]
[Tragil] He decides to declare.
We got invited to go to New York.
And I was like, "We get to go and sit out there?"
It was like, "Yeah." Like, "What?"
[announcer] The draft is set to begin and with that,
the Commissioner of the NBA...
Heart beatin' fast, thinking... [sighs]
"Is this really about to happen?"
With the fifth pick, the Miami Heat select
Dwyane Wade from Marquette University.
[crowd cheers]
[Tragil] Number five pick. It was the best thing ever.
It's like it wasn't real.
It just wasn't real.
[Tragil] He walked up there and shook that man's hand,
And I'm thinkin' to myself,
"We're rich. We are rich." And he was like,
"We rich?" "What about-- Did you--? What the contract says.
You are number five. Do you know how much money this is?
We are rich!"
[Wade] When I was a kid, make it out,
so I can take care of my family. Like every kid's dream.
So I made it out.
But...
[chuckles] I didn't know what I was getting into.
You know, I just... I just went with the flow.
[man speaking indistinctly]
[man] Dwyane, starts down in Miami, number five pick
-How you feelin'? -Feelin good.
I'm like, I'm lovin' this weather.
Can't wait to get out of these clothes and get into some shorts and a T-shirt.
[babbling]
[Riley] You know what?
I'm gonna get you started right now.
There it is, right there. We're not even gonna wait.
-Congratulations. Nice to see you. -Thank you.
We are happy. Very, very happy.
-All right. -[Siohvaughn] Thanks.
-How are you? Nice to see you. -Thanks.
-Pleasure. And this is Zaire? -Yeah.
-[indistinct] -[laughs]
[indistinct conversation]
No, I'm just kidding.
[laughs]
We want you to learn this by Monday.
-[man] Go! -[players shout]
[man] Oh, that's it!
[Udonis] We went through so much in this league early together.
We basically spent every day, every second together.
But he was quieter.
Mouthful of cavities.
That boy'll tell you how many cavities he had when he got down here.
Boy ain't never been to the dentist.
We had to go to the dentist together, I was done.
Sitting out there, like, "God damn!"
He's still in here?
Man, about 13 God damn cavities.
He had a raggedy grill, now look at him.
[laughs]
[Spoelstra] We're coming off of two non-playoff teams at that time
Well, you're lookin' around this gym of a bunch of
young, ambitious talented guys,
and you're looking around saying, "Okay, this is the future.
This is the future right here."
And we didn't know what that actually meant,
we just knew this was a lot different
than what we had seen the last two years.
-[buzzer sounds] -[crowd gasps]
[Andy] It was needed from the beginning.
This was like nothing else we'd ever seen in our 15-year history.
And you can see it from that point in time
that we had a player that had a chance to be
one of the greatest players in the game.
[announcer] The game is tied at 79.
[Andy] And it wasn't really until the playoffs when the world suddenly realized
who Dwyane Wade was.
[announcer] Wade putting the move on Davis.
Here is Wade... Yes! With 1.3 to go!
[Riley] I don't think he was feeling to make that move all year,
And it wasn't between the legs, it was between the legs this way.
[laughs] He went to the right, he went this,
And before you know it, he's in the paint.
And that was his start to greatness.
That was his start of him taking responsibility
and putting that on his shoulders.
And I just knew we had somebody very special,
that, as soon as we can get more players around him,
I think, would help him grow.
And that's why we made the Shaquille trade.
[reporter] A major headline around the league tonight,
the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat
have agreed to a trade to send Shaquille O'Neal,
one of the greatest big men of all time,
to sunny South Florida.
[Shaquille] I just want to thank you for welcoming me,
I want you all to remember this feeling right here, everybody out here,
having a good time, feeling like a team, remember this.
'Cause I'm gonna bring a championship to Miami, I promise.
[reporter] Shaq, how do you plan on being a mentor to Dwyane Wade?
[Shaquille] I'm just gonna be his big brother.
He's a very special guy and the team is his.
I'm just here to do my part.
I knew he was getting ready to be touted as a great player.
I showed him how to walk the walk,
I showed him how to talk the talk.
I've always been a tight lip.
I could see when somebody does one, two things...
Uh, when he gets older, he's gonna be mad.
[Wade] Shaq became a big brother
Shaq came to my house, in the old house, and was like,
"Nah, Flash, you gotta move." [laughs]
"You're a star now."
"You gotta... you gotta start living like one."
I was like, "Yeah! We outta here!"
[Riley] When Shaquille came in and said "This is D. Wade's team,"
you know, called him "Flash," and "I'm gonna support him,"
he didn't just support him, from the standpoint
that "I'm Shaq and I'm gonna take over."
He really supported him in the standpoints of "I'm gonna take care of you.
I'm gonna lift you up, I'm gonna sure--
I'm gonna protect you. But it's your team.
You're the guy that's gonna to really win it
probably for us, I'll help you, too."
[announcer] Game One of the 2006 NBA Finals.
The Heat and the Mavericks.
Two teams that have never been here before,
ready to have at it at the American Airlines Center
in front of a packed house.
Attack it, we're attackers, we're attacking now, okay?
Play down the court. Now let's go.
[announcer] NBA Finals Game One
[Riley] The one thing that you find out about players early in their career
is the impact that losing will have on that player.
And Dwyane was very honest with himself
and so, I mean, if we weren't winning, he was miserable.
If he wasn't playing well, he'd take responsibility
and he'd come in and--and work hard.
[announcer] And the Mavericks have a commanding two-games-to-nothing lead
as they totally embarrass the Heat here in Dallas.
[Riley] When we went to Dallas and we lost those first two games,
everybody was very very upset, I was, everybody was upset.
And we thought at that time, "Well, let's just let this thing go.
Again, now we work."
We're gonna make it a series tonight.
[announcer] The American Airlines Arena is packed.
They're ready for tonight's Game Three.
It's a desperation game for Miami.
A loss tonight for the Heat, and NBA history says it's over.
[Spoelstra] Game Three was pretty much a continuation
of those first two games in Dallas and then it was even worse
in the fourth quarter.
[announcer] Wide open, puts it in again and the lead 13, largest of the game.
[Riley] You know, middle of the 4th quarter,
Game Three, you're down 13,
there's only one thing going through your head as a coach and a player.
"This is gonna be a sweep."
Hey, guys! We're talking about our season!
They called timeout. And Dwyane just stood up saying
"I ain't goin' out like this."
And that was the moment of truth for us and it was the moment of truth for Dwyane.
And he just walked out of the huddle and on the court
and scored 15 straight points.
And the game just changed right away.
That just changed, with his energy.
That's what great players can do.
[announcer] Knocked away! And the Heat survive!
Dwyane Wade has [indistinct] a stern fourth quarter comeback.
[man] Suddenly, the series turned.
And it turned on a dime in a way that few series I'd ever seen...
had seen before and few series I've seen since.
[announcer] Wade put it up and it's going foul!
We haven't found a right solution to deal with Wade yet.
[announcer] Wade... Wade looking...
Pulls up, shakes it in!
[Andy] The rest of that series, and how that played out,
he was just dominant.
And now, he had the cheat code.
That was the closest we've had in a performance
in a Miami Heat uniform from Michael.
He just was at that level
where you just you can't stop Wade.
[Riley] He played the best basketball of any player in the world
that they could play on the biggest stage
And from there, he became a world champion.
[announcer] ...The Heat win their first championship
[David Stern] Congratulations, 2006 MVP, Dwyane Wade.
[crowd cheering]
[Letterman] Here's Finals MVP Dwyane Wade.
P. Diddy, slash "Diddy",
selected Dwyane to endorse his fall clothing line.
[Lisa] After 2006, for Dwyane and his wife,
their lives just changed so drastically.
You both are, like, literally, coming from, like, nothing,
and grinding and then all of a sudden,
you become the superstar.
[Antoine] Everywhere we went, "Oh, that's D. Wade! That's D. Wade!"
He's getting so much love from everyone.
A lot of people don't realize this. You know, I mean, your wife,
you've been with her since your freshman year in high school,
you knew her since you were 9 years old.
But you're on the cover of magazines flexing your muscles.
-[Wade laughs] -You showin' up at the MTV Awards,
Bein' on People Magazine, you know, all the--
"Sexiest Man" and all this other stuff.
[laughter]
How does she feel about all of that?
-Hm. [sighs] -[laughter]
She cool with it. [laughs]
[Wade] Before my next season, Zion Wade was conceived.
I was happy because I'm like, "Okay. I don't want my kid to fall apart."
But at the same time, our relationship was rocky.
We got together at 16 years old so we had a lot of differences.
And we didn't know how to handle those.
The only way you handle them is arguments, fights.
And I wasn't a big argument, fight-type person because...
I grew up hearin' my parents do that and I didn't want that to happen to Zaire.
So I would just not address it neither.
Or "I'm leavin'" or "I'm not comin' home."
Me and Siohvaughn keep getting into it, back and forth, back and forth.
And I just was unhappy.
Zion was born...
We tried a little marriage counseling.
It wasn't gonna happen so... I left.
When I made the decision, I said to myself,
it's gonna be a hard road to get back to
where I'm in my kids' lives the way I want to be.
[Wade] Zion, how old are you?
-Three. -How old are you?
Two.
-Dahvi, how old are you? -Eight.
-Zaire, how old are you? -Eight!
All right. And I'm 28. Next time we look at this,
we're gonna look at this years and years from now.
-I'm gonna be old. -He's gonna be a beard...
I'm gonna be like 38, he gonna be 18,
He gonna be 18, he gonna be 12.
Zaire, you wanna say anything?
Mm-hmm
Come on inside and say something. Say something.
-Get silly! -Get silly!
[indistinct babbling]
[Wade] So my divorce was taking forever.
She wound up having about 13 different lawyers in this process.
So every time you get a new lawyer, the case starts over.
[Wade] Hey, tell Titi to tie his shoes.
[Wade] So throughout this process,
I had an agreement to be able to see my kids at certain times.
[Wade] Hey, Zion, you look real handsome.
Take that out your mouth and talk to me.
-[boy speaking indistinctly] -Show me the shoes!
Miami Heat take the lead,
[indistinct chatter]
You got Zaire Wade. Zaire, what team are you?
-I'm the Magic. -[Wade] He the Magic.
-Dahveon Morris, what team are you? -Heat!
[Wade] Heat.
[Wade] Every time Zaire was around for a weekend,
I would make sure that my nephew Dhaveon was there with us.
[Wade] Hey, come on, Dhavi, you gotta make that.
[Wade] Zaire and Dhavi was the same age
so I always made sure Zaire had somebody to play with.
So I could spend more time with Zion since he was younger
and I would try to build a relationship with him.
[indistinct]
"Hello, Zion, Zaire."
Hello, Zaire.
Let's see you dribble, let's see you dribble,
Okay, okay, okay. Okay.
[Lisa] It was hard to build that relationship with Zion.
It was a struggle because of the separation so early.
They didn't have that chance to develop that bond.
Open shot, man.
Zion. Ooh.
-You don't feel hot? -Yeah.
I know-- Hey, hey, hey! Time out!
Time out. We're... We just stopped the game.
Get Dav, get Dav.
[indistinct chatter]
Ah! Foul.
Ooh! No!
I called a foul! No!
Whoo!
-You can't do that! -I can!
He's four years old.
-Yeah. I can't jump that high. -[boy speaking indistinctly]
All right, fellas, iPads off.
Now, X your days out.
Here you go, Christmas here and you go see Mama here.
So, X out those there. X out um...
[kissing]
You get so sad when you gotta go to bed.
Okay, everybody's here. Be right here, okay?
I'm okay.
So, eventually got a divorce done.
Now the kids-- the custody case continues for a while.
All I wanted was joint custody.
Like, and the whole parent...
But now I'm having a hard time holding a relationship with my kids.
Seeing my kids.
A lot of times, she would not bring 'em out
so I had to get the police involved, you know, to find her,
to knock on the door...
So it became ugly.
It became real nasty.
[reporter] Almost three years after NBA star Dwyane Wade's
contentious divorce from his wife Siohvaughn began,
the legal twists and turns continue.
He hasn't spoken to his children in eight weeks.
Even though there's a court order.
[Wade] Like, at this point, if I want to see my kids,
on a consistent basis,
the only fight that I have, the only...
the only thing I have left is to go for custody.
It's either that or I'll allow her
to control the destiny of my relationship with my kids.
Today is the first day of really starting the case and, uh...
it should be interesting to hear...
one lawyer say all negative things about me
and it should be interesting to hear another one to say all positive things.
The number of times that he would have to leave practice,
to jump on a charter plane, to get to Chicago in time to be in court
to fight for custody for his boys, that happened so many times.
We about to go to Chicago, got the kids waiting on us.
We gotta get up outta here.
[Lisa] At the time, Dwyane was probably playing some of his best basketball.
And people don't know where that drive was coming from.
[announcer] The steal, for two. Dwyane puts it up for the win... Yes!
[Lisa] It was the anger, the frustration, the hurt,
of what he was going through in this custody battle.
And basketball was his sanctuary.
I remember like it was yesterday when the verdict came down.
Got a message from my lawyer that say, "Call me. Now."
He said, "Listen...
You just got custody of the kids."
It was like, "What?"
"You just got custody of the kids."
My emotions was all over the place because
On one end, you wanna celebrate a victory.
On the other end, no one wins.
There's no winner in a custody battle.
My oldest sister Deanna is Dha-Dha's mom.
And when I got custody of my boys,
I felt Dha-Dha would be kinda left out.
And I asked my sister, I said,
"You think my environment will be better for him than the environment
that he livin' in now?"
She agreed. So, I was already getting two.
Why not get another one? [laughs]
-[indistinct chatter] -You want it back?
-[indistinct chatter] -Stand up.
Why do they call the boys' [indistinct]
-The, uh... -[indistinct]
[woman] Oh, he got his glasses.
Put your glasses on, let me see how you're playin.
[man] Hey! Hey! Hey! Come here.
Oh, so you know, I'm just glad,
but I have an awesome pad.
Um, my Dad.
So we just thank God for every day.
[Wade] All right!
[Wade] You want your mom and dad to be proud of you.
That's what-- When you work hard,
you think about that. You think about your mom and dad,
and hopefully of them being proud of you,
and both my parents are.
[Zaire] Hey, we got a question over here.
You got a question, sir?
-Um, Mr. Wade, -You got a credential?
-[Wade] All right, what's your question? -Yeah, yeah, I guess.
Mr. Wade, um, do you think you can beat your son 1-on-1?
Do I think I can beat my son 1-on-1? Been there, done that. Next!
[laughter]
I'm gonna play him one more time, after this season,
it'll be my last time ever playing him 1-on-1. We'll see what he got.
[fans clamoring]
[Wade] I've always wanted to be a father.
Like I love kids and just to hear your kids call you,
there's something simple to this. "Dad."
I still smile when I hear my kids call that, you know?
And, um, you know... Not all the time.
Sometimes I'm like, "Oh, boy."
This isn't, like, 1985.
No, it's just because my school made a suggestion
that kids shouldn't delete it or from middle school.
And they took it to heart. Every other kid did not care.
And no other parent cared either.
So every other kid on social media but me.
I'm looking at you, Dad. I'm looking at you.
-Staring at you. -Hm?
My eyes are burning through your soul right now.
[Wade] But, um, for the most part, you know, when I walk in,
and I hear him say something at the end of the conversation,
about yeah, Dad, this and that, I be like, "I'm a father."
Like I'm important to, you know, some individual's lives.
And it feels that way. You know, it feels good for me.
Zaire, how ya doin, buddy? This is your father.
Just giving you a call. It's about eight o'clock.
I know I probably missed your call, I was on the plane.
I'm on the way back to Chicago, so...
Um, just givin' you a call, tell you I love you.
Tell Zion I love him, give him a kiss.
Um, if I don't talk to you tonight, I will talk to you tomorrow.
Okay, buddy? All right? Love you.
[Wade] I always had this vision of what kind of father I wanted to be.
But once you have kids,
you start to understand your parents.
They crazy, but they ain't that damn crazy.
'Cause kids, you know,
you end up doing some of the things your parents did to you.
[Wade] So after the boys came,
my relationship started getting better with my dad.
And we moved on.
I'm about-- I'm gonna talk about it right now.
-Get this out of the way. -[woman laughs]
Let me tell you, that my daddy claim to fame
is, uh, he used to play a little basketball back in the day.
And he used to go to Lakefront in Chicago.
It was a very popular place to play outside basketball.
So, Scottie used to come down and play basketball,
you know, when he was in his hey-day with the Bulls,
-Scottie Pippen! -And, uh...
When he was playing against my daddy, my daddy ripped him.
"Supposedly."
He ripped him, and he went down and dunked him.
And then he came back and said he dunked on Scottie.
[laughing]
Daddy played so hard against Scottie,
like I've never seen him like that before.
He was like-- [grunts]
[laughing and indistinct chatter]
-The next play, Scottie came back down, -[Tragil] Yeah.
and he got me all the way in the hole, I went to jump to block it,
-He flushed it all down... -Oh, see? I never heard that part!
[Tragil speaks indistinctly]
You came home, you told us you dunked on Scottie.
And you telling us he boombastic on you.
[Wade Sr.] Ooh, he came back on the next play.
[all laugh]
Hey! You don't tell nobody that, that was way down the road.
[reporter] Will LeBron James be bringing all those highlight reel plays
-to South Beach? -Ma, what do you think?
Where do you think LeBron's going?
-[Wade laughs] -I don't even know. I don't...
All y'all saying is, y'all want to see LeBron in Chicago?
Or Dwyane in Chicago. Which one?
-Cut, cut the camera! -[laughs]
[announcer] Bull NBA free agency begins in earnest on July the first,
teams can officially sign free agents until...
[Wade] Going to the summer of 2010, LeBron James is a free agent.
Chris Bosh is a free agent.
-And me. -It's a good morning.
I didn't get no sleep, but it's a good morning.
[Wade] So, I started my process, man.
I'm looking at other teams.
I'm like, "Hmm. But what team would be the team that can...
we could compete for championships?
[Lisa] You had New York, you had Chicago,
you had Miami. You know, at that point, he had options
and he knew it and he was going to take full advantage
of those opportunities.
[Hank] I don't know, man. What's going on?
-You ready to go? You ready to go? -All righty, all righty. Yeah.
I watched some-- I didn't go to sleep till three last night.
And I got up at six, so I've been watching--
-So much TV, it's like... -Yeah, yeah.
Oh, man, it's--it's...
-Unbelievable. -These people, man. They kid.
[Hank] You want to kick this one off with your hometown team, right?
I think pretty much with this one and all of them is just gonna be...
the important thing will be to be a good listener.
You know, they're gonna explain... why you should come.
Explain their vision for not only the current season but the future,
and, uh, you just listen.
Dwyane Wade is in Chicago.
The hometown kid meeting the Bulls today.
-How is that, good? -[man] Good.
You look like you're ready to go on the court right now.
[chuckles]
[indistinct conversation]
Some funny stuff. [laughs]
[man] I didn't even know this, does the Heat know this?
Yeah, 6'3", Chris, 6'4".
[Bosh laughs]
LeBron is 9'12"
-This is ridiculous, man. -[laughs]
This like Will and Muggsy Bogues.
[laughing]
I've never seen Pat Riley so nervous.
-Oh, was he? -[indistinct conversation]
-A lot of these people are so nervous. -Yeah. Yeah.
Wade!
-All good? -The Knicks got a chance?
-Huh? -Do the Knicks have a chance to get you?
Well, I'm in a New York state of mind right now so...
We'll see.
[reporter] This morning, a relaxed Dwyane Wade
with his own camera crew in tow, gives New York some hope.
[reporter 2] The Knicks, into, you know,
"I'm in a New York state of mind right now."
If you're havin' free agency problems, I feel bad for you, son.
I got 99 problems but a team ain't one. Hit me!
Hey! You don't like that?
[laughs]
[Hank] You sure you don't want to go to South Atlanta?
Uh, seems like a [indistinct] thing to do.
[Hank] Yeah, yeah.
[woman] A lot of older parts.
Deep, deep conversations to have, my man.
Because you know the pressure this weekend is not gonna let up.
[people chanting] We want Wade! We want Wade!
[Riley] Our first priority is gonna be Dwyane.
But there's no guarantees, there's no assurances,
you know, in this game.
[Riley] You know after we traded Shaq, I had many conversations with Dwyane
that I hope we can get you a couple guys.
And so in 2010,
we knew that we were gonna go after LeBron and Chris Bosh.
We were gonna definitely be a player.
Would Miami in your opinion, sacrifice so much
for these three players?
Uh, yes.
[Wade] What happened was, July 4th, I remember getting a text from LeBron
say, "Hey, can you get on a call?" you know, in the next hour or whatever.
"Yeah, cool. I'm gonna get in touch with Chris and see."
Got on the phone and said, "Hey,
Miami got the space. So all three of us if we wanna go.
"You in? You in? You in?"
LeBron said, "I'm in."
I said, "I'm in."
Chris said, "Hell yeah, I'm in."
So July 4th was the moment that we decided
that we was all gonna play together.
[Wilbon] I'm gonna cut rightd to the chase.
Dwyane and Chris. Dwyane, we'll start with you.
Where are you gonna be playing next season?
Oh, well I'm back in Miami, man, I'm back in...
As now, for now, I'm back in Wade County.
[Wilbon] Back in Miami with the Heat.
Chris, you want to jump in and tell us where you' gonna be as well?
Yeah, I'm joining Mr. Wade in Miami.
[Wade] So, after that, I go back to Miami
because I have a basketball camp.
You know, doing my stuff,
hitting Bron, no, no return.
"Huh? Okay. Whatever."
Next day, hit Bron. "CB, you talked to Bron?"
"No, I ain't talked to him." Hm.
Then we hear that he has this special coming up on ESPN.
We're like, "What the [bleep] is going on?"
Like, now I'm getting concerned because I'm like...
maybe he's changed his mind.
Like, I don't know, I haven't talked to him.
Like, I know this is a tough decision
because if you watched it, and been following on TV,
Like, it's a big LeBron watch going on.
So, the Decision come.
I go to the TV and have a Decision party,
like everybody else in America.
Because I don't know what the hell about to go on.
[reporter] His heart's gotta be pounding.
[reporter 2] ...an announcement that will impact the league for years to come.
We have this blanketed everywhere. Blanket coverage all over the country.
I wasn't this nervous at the draft.
When I got drafted... [laughs]
It didn't even take this long.
We gonna enjoy this together, good or bad.
It's good no matter what.
-We strong in Miami. -Yeah, you right.
[reporter] The answer to the question everybody wants to know.
LeBron, what you're gonna say?
Um, this fall, and this is very tough
Um, this fall I'm gonna take my talents to South Beach.
[cheering]
Oh, man! It's showtime.
[announcer] LeBron James! Dwyane Wade! Chris Bosh!
Your Miami Heat!
[Bosh] I mean, it was crazy.
I turn around, they had this smoke.
I saw the people, 20,000 people came to a game with no ball.
We believe we can win multiple championships
if we take care of business and do it the right way.
[Bosh] We're the only people in history to have a parade
before a parade.
Think about that, bro.
[crowd booing]
[Wade] Well, in the 2010-11 season,
I guess the public didn't like the fact that we decided to play together.
"You all ruined basketball."
LeBron, me, and Chris was all loved in the NBA.
"Now we hate y'all."
[Udonis] We packed out arenas every night, sold out every night
but most people were going to see us lose.
Most people come to talk crazy and be disrespectful and...
and just hate.
[Wade] You know, wherever you are, everybody booing us.
Everybody this and that, we're gonna show you all.
So we worked. You know, we start winning.
[announcer speaking indistinctly]
And eventually, we went to the finals against Dallas.
We balled.
So we real cocky in our talk.
But then Dallas won the next three games. They just went on an unbelievable run.
[announcer] The Dallas Mavericks are NBA Champions.
For the Miami Heat, a stunning ending
to one of the more compelling seasons in NBA history.
[Wade] And I remember just being angry... at everybody.
Like, if you was having a good time,
if you were smiling, you wasn't my friend.
Like, you supposed to be in your feelings,
and you're supposed to be hurt like me so I'm calling people,
"What you doing?" "Where you at?"
If you ain't in the house weeping like me,
I ain't got nothing to say to you. You know?
So I shut down... from everybody.
And I remember the next day waking up
and feeling like it was a bad dream. And realized that it was real.
So I was like, "All right, bro."
You still got responsibilities.
I started, like, getting back to life.
We were about four days delayed coming to China,
due to Mr. Wade's about to have Lasik surgery.
So with the Lasik surgery,
we are guaranteed for no missed dunks.
[Gabrielle] Oh, that's what it was!
That's what it was. All those missed dunks.
-It was the-- it was the... -[Lisa] It was the missed dunks.
-[Lisa] It was poor vision. -It was poor vision.
-He also thought he was dating... -I missed one dunk!
He also thought he was dating Halle Berry.
-But now... -[Lisa laughs]
He's like [bleep]
[bleeps]
[Wade] Me and Gab started dating in 2008
And you know, I think in 2010,
that relationship was now, it's starting to, like, you know,
become something.
[laughing]
That's what your dunks look like.
[laughs]
[Wade] As we started to travel, I started opening up.
Like, I can actually be friends with my girlfriend.
We can actually have a relationship, we can actually laugh together.
and joke together, and, like, hangout together,
and like, I didn't grow up with that mentality.
♪ Baby, Baby, Ooh ♪
[laughing]
[Gabrielle] I'm his biggest fan and I'm his biggest critic.
I see everything.
I know when he does that thing where he puts one foot
in front of another and he does this, he's checked out.
Like, he's gone.
And I'm like, "Oh, geez, he's doing the foot thing."
Um, when he starts messing with his jersey too much,
he's in his head, it's over.
[Lisa] And it's funny because Gabrielle has always been
the woman of his dreams.
I remember, Dwyane used to have posters of Gab up in college.
So, it was one of those situations.
[vocalizing]
[chuckles]
[singing indistinctly]
[Wade] So that summer, me and Gab had a plan
to go to the Bahamas.
It was a part of, uh, we go in...
we gonna do this, we gonna do this, say we're gonna take a vacation.
So we kept our plan to go to the Bahamas.
We met LeBron and LeBron's wife Savannah.
We end up having, like, just a cool, cool weekend, right?
And before that, I've just been thinking a lot
about the season.
I've been thinking a lot about the way we played,
Been thinking a lot about the way he played,
So I had a conversation with Bron in the Bahamas at the crib.
I said, "Man, listen..." I said...
"I watched you play all year. You wasn't yourself.
You wasn't playing your game.
You was, like, trying to make sure that everybody was happy."
And I was like, "Listen...
You gotta be you. And we gotta get behind you."
And I remember him, like,
"What?" You know what I mean?
Just kinda like shocked that I said it, but...
it had to be done.
[grunting]
Come on, get out wide!
[shouting]
[grunting]
[announcer speaking indistinctly]
[Spoelstra] It didn't take a genius to realize,
like, "Okay, something happened during the off season."
Because Dwyane is really going out of his way
to make sure LeBron is the best player in the world.
And the leader.
A lot of people didn't understand why would I do that.
"Why would you give up being the first option?
It's Wade County. This is Miami, you won a championship.
You don't need to give up nothing."
But it wasn't their career. It was my career.
And if we didn't win, it was a failure.
[announcer] He has not scored...
That's when that... stuff started.
[announcer] Lobbed to LeBron, open and the dunk in!
And it was automatically, LeBron, do your thing.
[gasps] Boom! D, do your thing.
There he is and all that, you know?
[announcer] What a difference a year makes.
2011 had such a bitter ending.
The shot-clock has turned off.
The Miami Heat are once again NBA Champions.
[screaming and whooping]
[Spoelstra] It was just so gratifying
to feel a team come together like that to win.
And that kinda set the tone for the next season.
And that was one of the best all-time seasons in this league.
[announcer] As we count down, to the end of one of the greatest
regular seasons in Miami Heat...
[Spoelstra] And we went back to the Championship Series
and we're just thinking, "This is unbelievable."
[Wade] I'm going for my third championship
For me, three is a very significant number.
And... I would love to win four, five, six, whatever,
but if I can retire from this game and at least I got three...
I've done something special.
I'm excited but, um, nervous.
There are so many moments where doubt creeps in.
I love this game but just the everyday grind sucks.
I don't know when I'm just gonna have enough but right now,
that's why it's important I get this third one.
Spoiled!
-[Wade speaking indistinctly] -Okay.
The nine o'clock game, so... this my second meal.
The first one was, um, turkey burger.
Chef feels that I play better when you eat turkey burgers.
-[man] And Caesar salad. -And Caesar salad.
And some chips.
[announcer] Game Seven!
The NBA Championship...
Wade...
[announcer speaking indistinctly]
It's back-to-back titles for the Heat!
The 2013 NBA Championship resides once again in Miami.
[crowd chanting] D. Wade! D. Wade!
This is unbelievable. Unbelievable.
[interviewer] So, Dwyane, you had everything going for you.
You know, this is gonna be tough,
but we gotta talk about what happened next time.
You had a very private moment that became... very public.
Tell me about it.
[Wade] I had a child with someone else.
And I had to tell her.
Hardest thing I've ever had to do... is man up
and tell Gabrielle Union that I've had a child with somebody else.
I couldn't sleep. I wasn't eating.
When you hold something in, that you know was gonna come out,
and you were the one who had this information,
and you know it's gonna [bleep] somebody's life up,
that you care about, that you love.
If it don't hurt you, then you're not human.
And it's a very sensitive situation because
I don't raise Xavier. That's an ongoing...
thing that I'm gonna have to deal with for the rest of my life
of how to be in his life.
So for me, being in the middle of this situation,
I've always tried to be very sensitive, and I still fall short.
Me and Gab just went through
something that you never want to go through.
And we still came out of it.
And like... said it wasn't easy...
And that was another moment to show me that life could be different.
We going with the 50s thing, bro.
The 50s? The 50s?! What 50s?
-Like the 1950s. -Oh, my God, that's so long ago.
Hold tight. All right?
[Wade] And also, my boys loved her from the beginning.
So I was like, "Hey, listen, boys,
she's not Gabrielle Union, we're gonna call her Nickie, right?
Everybody in her family calls her Nickie, that's her nickname,
and I wanted them to feel like, you know what,
okay, we're moving to a family...
I felt that if I was gonna propose to her,
it was something that we was all gonna have to do
because she wouldn't just marry me.
She was gonna marry... all this baggage.
We all comin'.
Have you ever wondered if I need you?
That answer is forever.
If you've ever wondered, if I'll leave you,
That answer is never.
And if you ever wondered what I value, baby,
that answer's you.
[Gabrielle] This day is about the two of us
coming together and being the best team possible.
Through the ups, the downs,
the laughs, and the frowns.
I will be there.
Love you.
[crowd cheers]
This is Zaire Wade, coming to you live from the Wade residence
I have here, Mr. Dwyane Wade and Mr...
-You've been in the league for 11 years. -Yeah.
-Ten-time All-Star. -There you go.
And now you're working on a three-peat this year of the Finals.
Who... do you think... is gonna play you in
the Eastern Conference Finals, sir, and the other NBA playoffs?
Man, forget all that.
I just want to say a shout-out to my homeboys, Young Bird.
What's up, baby? Uh, you know, Tyrone, I grew up with you.
What's up, baby? Yeah, representin' for the whole hood.
What up, Mudville? In the house.
Back to what you were saying, my brother from another...
-How your lips be... All right... -[laughs]
I know you ain't talkin' trash!
[Wade] You know in basketball, this is what I do.
[announcer] For the fourth consecutive year,
the Miami Heat are heading to the NBA Finals.
[Wade] It's crazy, man. It's crazy to us.
To be going back to the Finals four years in a row.
I know... I know our fans are starting to expect this,
-But, uh... -Don't take this for granted, please.
Don't take this for granted, man.
We are at the four years in the Finals,
long season, short off-season.
In 2014, we couldn't turn it on.
[announcer] And the final seconds, San Antonio is back on top once again.
The Spurs are the 2014 NBA Champions.
Four consecutive Finals.
An extraordinary accomplishment for the Miami Heat.
But they fall short of their ultimate goal.
[Udonis] We had them do a lot over four years.
And it wore on us. It wore on us a lot.
You know what I'm saying?
Sometimes you just need a breath of fresh air.
And a breath of fresh air for somebody...
you know, might be a [bleep] for somebody else.
[reporter] Breaking news on SportsCenter,
Sports Illustrated posting a story. LeBron James is going back to Cleveland
The last words of the piece: "I'm coming home."
[Wade] Me and Bron had just got off the phone,
let me know everything was official before everything hit all.
And with me, how I am, I wanted to make him
feel okay with his decision.
And I'm not saying that it didn't affect me
and it didn't hurt a little bit.
But I supported him going back, man
you know what I mean, because I knew that
for his career to be complete...
he was gonna have to go back.
He was gonna have to win a championship without me and Miami.
But after that call, and I looked, and our TVs was on,
from my bathroom, I could see... our stunt was over.
[indistinct chatter]
LeBron go back home, you go from "Dang. He out." to...
All right. Free agency. Let's go.
[announcer] The Big Three is gone but another third is staying in Miami.
Chris Bosh, agreeing to a five-year contract.
It'll be worth about 118 million bucks.
That's 30 million more than Houston was offering the free agent.
-Bosh vacation... -[Wade] I'm like,
Damn! Okay.
Nobody hit me yet.
And I went from like talking to the Heat, like, almost every day
because they wanted to know what was Bron doing
to radio silence.
[Lisa] There was no sense of urgency for him to be re-signed.
And that's when the hurt started.
'Cause it was like, oh, you guys are so busy trying to sign
everyone else around me.
Well, what about me?
So, Mr. Heat tell me, "Hey...
you know, we got two years, 31 million we could pay you.
I don't want to do it. It's against everything I want to do.
But I'm in this position where now I'm [bleep].
Nobody think I'm leaving Miami,
nobody got no money for me even if I wanted to go somewhere.
So I gotta take the deal.
[crowd] Defense! Defense!
And then after that, in 2016, I'm back, I'm ballin'.
I just led us, one game away from the Eastern Conference Finals.
I'm-- Give me what I'm worth.
So I asked for it, and asked for nothing more.
And then you start seeing--
you start feeling that your worth is not seen and you're not valued.
[reporter] There's some legitimate hurt feelings right now.
Dwyane Wade has taken pay cuts
so that LeBron James could come there and he took a pay cut last year.
So I think he's the dumb one for taking pay cuts.
[reporter] First deal that we heard that they got offered,
that Dwyane Wade was ten million dollars.
-[man] Tied in your face. -Ticked him off. Ticked him off.
[reporter] Well, Wade is obviously unhappy about Heat president Pat Riley
not giving him the financial respect he thinks he deserves
as the face of that franchise.
But is it enough to actually lead to a divorce?
I expected more out of Pat.
And... tell Pat that I'm sitting right here. And Pat knows that.
Pat [bleep] up with me.
That he [bleep] the situation with me.
He should've handled it way better.
And you know what, he may-- don't have, but
I'mma always think that Pat should've handled it better with me.
I thought at the time, I thought,
our relationship was stronger I guess?
-...this is our legacy. -[man speaking indistinctly]
[Wade] Though I definitely felt that if anybody gonna take care of me,
Pat gonna make sure I'm good. Because Pat is--
Pat's seen what I've done for this organization.
[Riley] You know, it's hard.
It's really hard when you're in my position
and you're on a player that you love
that you went to war with, won championships with
and then you get to that moment of truth.
OK. This is about the rest of his life, and the rest of his career, too,
and use him like he's a widget on a widget board, and no.
I'm sure that he felt that "You know, Pat's gonna take care of this."
And I didn't. And that bothers me to this day.
Wow. Welcome to SportsCenter
A shocker. Dwyane Wade, three-time Miami Heat NBA Champion
-is a Chicago Bull. -Baby, doncha know?
[man speaking indistinctly]
No, I'm okay.
Um... my feelings, my emotions.
It's my emotions, and my thoughts, and my feelings, over these last 24 hours
has just been like, you know, kinda like what I said earlier,
I'm kinda numb. You know? This is all I know.
I've been married to the Miami Heat for 13 years.
Um, so...
This is the toughest decision I've ever had to make.
And I have to make it.
But I feel good about making it, I'm at peace with making it.
And I'm looking forward to the next chapter.
I'm looking forward to the future.
[reporter] His sister and mom, overjoyed, that Dwyane Wade, NBA All-Star,
Finals MVP with the Miami Heat, is coming home.
I understand he a grown man but for a mother, to be able to
now get a chance to spend more time in his life and his world.
That means so much to me.
[fans] D Wade! D Wade!
[Wade] Hello, Miami.
I can't wait to put my first boots on.
I haven't been able to wear boots in 13 years.
Now I'm a Chicago guy.
[drumming]
[men] You feel for D. Wade.
The basketball player.
-D. Wade. -D. Wade. Dwyane Wade!
[man speaking indistinctly]
[both] Man!
[speaking indistinctly]
Welcome, D. Wade, to the city of Chicago.
It's fun, there's so many things to do.
There's so much to keep yourself out of negativity, man.
Everything that happens is based off guns and gangbanging.
[speaking indistinctly] We the beast, Chicago!
Play basketball, like D. Wade.
[reporter] Chicago has seen a dramatic spike in shootings this month.
[reporter 2] 72 people were killed in the month of June.
[reporter 3] Ten people were shot overnight.
[Wade] That year in Chicago really became more than just basketball.
Crime rate is on... is on a thousand.
[reporter] In June, 447 people were shot...
[Wade] And it's not just gun violence.
But also it's a fear, even in the community that I live in,
that a senseless act can happen.
17-year-old Trayvon Martin
was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer...
[reporter] The arrest of 43-year-old Eric Garner
was recorded on a cellphone.
Police say he died on his way...
[reporter 2] Last week in a park in Cleveland,
a 12-year-old African-American child named Tamir Rice was fatally shot by...
[reporter 3] ...Video shows police officers
subduing 28-year-old Sandra Bland...
[reporter 4] Slammed to the ground and shot during an encounter with...
[crowd chanting] What do we want? Justice!
[reporter 5] Another deadly police shooting, this one during...
[reporter 6] ...Michael Brown at the hand of a policeman.
[woman] Oh, my God, please don't tell me he's dead.
Please don't tell me my boyfriend just went like that.
[police] Keep your hands where they are please.
Yes, I will, sir, I'll keep my hands...
[Wade] At this time, there was so many killings caught on tape.
Not-- It didn't just start, it was caught on tape...
for the world to see how young Black men,
young Black women, and how our community was handled.
[woman] So you'll be standing there and we'll get everybody in their seats.
Carmelo goes first, so when the lights come up,
and at cues, the prompter will cue you.
[Carmelo] When it came to like you're speaking out,
on--on--on different injustices,
and just things that was going on, like they all...
started, you know, texting each other and like, "How you wanna do this?"
Enough is enough.
Now, as athletes, it's on us to challenge each other.
We didn't know how people was gonna take it.
Right? Because nobody knew we was doing it.
[Wade] We felt, 'cause we was asked to come in as athletes to celebrate,
this was a perfect platform for us to talk to our fellow athletes,
to talk to the world that's watching us, tuning in,
about... enough is enough.
Good evening. Tonight is a celebration of sports.
Celebrating our accomplishments and our victories.
But... in this moment of celebration,
we had to start the show tonight this way.
The four of us talking to our fellow athletes
with the country watching.
Because we cannot ignore the realities of the current state of America.
[Paul] We sort of spoke our own truths and let our voices be heard.
And when you get a chance to do powerful things,
and you get to do it with the people that you love
and truly care about, that's what makes it even more special.
Trayvon Martin.
Michael Brown. Tamir Rice.
[Wade] It's four Black men that...
makes a lot of money by playing a sport.
That a lot of these kids, a lot people who just passed away,
who have admired and looked up to,
as four noticeable and recognizable names in our sport and in this world.
We have a responsibility.
The racial profiling has to stop.
The shoot-to-kill mentality has to stop.
Not seeing the value of Black and Brown bodies has to stop.
[Wade] Like, we get the opportunity to use...
what basketball has done for us.
I think it was one of the most powerful moments of my life.
[applause]
[woman] How did you view the police when you were growing up here in Chicago?
Well, when I was growing up, I was scared of 'em. [chuckles]
You know, it was very, you know, unpredictable of what they may do...
[Wade continues to speak indistinctly]
I did this ESPN special talking about gun violence.
My mom was on the panel as well.
I did it via satellite.
It was a lot of us killing us.
It was a lot of gang-related issues. when I was growing up.
There was a lot of Black and Brown people killing each other.
I just love of ESPN
being an advocate for, you know, what we need to do.
The next day... I got a call that my cousin...
was shot and killed in Chicago.
Gun violence.
[reporter] 32 year old Nykea Aldridge was killed Friday afternoon in Chicago.
[reporter 2] A mother of four and the cousin
of Chicago Bulls star, Dwyane Wade.
[reporter 3] Aldridge was walking her baby in a stroller when she was shot.
She had recently moved to the area and was enrolling her kids in school.
Aldridge was the cousin of basketball star Dwyane Wade.
[Wade] It hit my family hard.
Because of how... you know, it's just--
an innocent moment with my cousin.
Taking her kids to register for school.
[woman speaking indistinctly]
Too soon. Too soon.
She was taken away from us.
♪ Come rescue me ♪
So our family was...
We still, you know... messed up about that.
But our family was really in a... in a pretty bad place that day.
[Antoine] This is a private moment. People are really hurt behind this.
But for him, it's like, "I just came here to play basketball
but now I have more work to do."
And now-- and allow him to use his platform,
to really cast light on it because it happens all the time.
It's time you need somebody to tell you that you're good,
that you're doing well, that you're loved.
That you can make it. We need that in life.
[Wade] That was the first time where that move to Chicago really made sense.
It wasn't just about me selfishly wanting to play for my team.
It really made sense for like, it's a bigger reason why I'm here.
Hey, Nickie, I made a snowball!
-[Wade] Oh, damn. -[Gabrielle] I like it.
I was terrible at making snowballs.
[Gabrielle] Oh, good toss. Good one, Zion.
[children screaming]
Ooh!
[Wade] Me and Gab are good together. She didn't really want kids.
But I think, once we seen that we can parent together,
you know, with my kids,
we both felt like it would be cool to be able to have one from scratch.
What this is so... Teddy Pendergraft.
[vocalizing]
-[laughs] -[boy speaking indistinctly]
[Gabrielle] When Dwyane and I started trying,
we were so excited.
So there were a ton of pregnancies and positive test results
And then...
Poof. Um, you know, like, usually around the 6-8 week mark...
Gone.
Obviously I knew it was not him.
And it literally just stayed like that for years.
Um... I just almost started expecting defeat.
[Wade] I'm watching my wife go through a lot physically.
You sittin' in there with the doctors, like, "Well, you can do this."
and "You can do that. But the risk of you surviving--"
Like, it became a point where it was like, "Oh, wait.
Now I may lose you in this process."
It's not only one way to have your family.
So we just started having conversations.
It was like, "Well, what's the other options?"
Another option became surrogacy.
[Gabrielle] My immediate thing was
even if I go through with getting a surrogate,
I don't get to be like, "a real mom."
And... it just took a long time to be like, "Let's go for it.
Let's try."
[indistinct chatter]
[man] You see what I did there? All right now.
Watch me work. Watch me now.
Hold on, don't hurt yourself, Jimbo.
Yo, my name is Dwyane. Tyrone Wade, Jr., man.
Fresh out of Robbins, Illinois, man. Marquette '03.
You know what I'm saying? You all check out my new line.
D. Wade times D-Squared.
See? I can do what you do. It's not that hard. It's not.
[chuckles]
[indistinct announcements]
Number three, Dwyane Wade!
[Wade] You know, coming to Chicago, the goal is the playoffs.
And what's crazy is... we did that. We went to the playoffs.
Like, I know it wasn't a championship, we didn't... we didn't fail.
We actually succeeded on what the goal was.
But then I'm looking at the direction that the Chicago Bulls is goin' in.
And it's like, "Why they goin' in a different direction than I'm goin?"
It's like when I divorced my first wife, it was going like this.
It was going up here together.
And whenever a team is going in a different direction,
you respect that from a business standpoint.
But as a player, you have a job to do as well.
[reporter] Dwyane Wade agreed to a buyout of his Bulls contract
and is expected to sign with Cleveland tomorrow.
[reporter 2] Even at 35, Wade's distensive muscle memory
is just better than a lot of players a decade younger.
Wade would not only give the Cavaliers championship experience,
he would give them more offensive...
[Wade] Sometimes it's physically, your body
physically don't wanna do certain things.
Sometimes mentally, you gotta push through fatigue
you gotta push through pain,
you gotta push through all the things that makes it uncomfortable.
But I still get paid a lot of money to do it.
And it's still hard.
When I was in Cleveland, I was just like a zombie.
I was just there but I really wasn't mentally and physically there.
[Riley] He went to Chicago and ended up in Cleveland.
I felt that was a year and a half of being lost.
Because I felt that his legacy...
in some way shape or form, would always be with the Heat.
So I was gonna try to do whatever I could do to get him back here.
[Lisa] Dwyane and Pat had a conversation
and there might have been something mentioned about,
"When you're ready to come home, the door's always open."
And Dwyane might've responded, "I"m ready now." [chuckles]
[reporter] And now the man who led Miami to three NBA titles,
is ready to suit up again in a number three Heat jersey.
[reporter 2] With plans to play
in Friday's game against the Milwaukee Bucks,
Wade wasted no time getting home.
He stepped off the plane at Opa-locka Airport following...
[Wade] At the time, I needed that life in me.
I couldn't hold on to a grudge.
So I decided I was going back to Wayne County. My home.
I'm excited to get started. I'm excited to be back.
Um, home. In our bed. In our environment, with our kids.
With our dogs. And the list goes on and on.
[Udonis] Dwyane Wade's traded to Miami.
I'm hard to please but I cracked a smile.
That was a good moment. You know what I'm saying? For everybody.
I was basically skipping and running into practice.
[laughs] All right
Let's go Heat! Welcome back, Wade, baby!
D. Wade is home!
If you guys haven't heard. He's here!
[Arison] I think it all worked out for the best.
I think he appreciated the Miami Heat more because he left.
I think the fans appreciated Dwyane Wade more
because he came back.
[cheering]
[indistinct chatter]
Once you're down here, you're gonna go up this double string.
Good, all the way to over there.
[Wade] I think people expect you to parent each kid the same.
It doesn't work that way.
Um, Zaire and Zion is totally different people.
And I have to be able to parent them where they are and who they are.
[Wade indistinct]
What's up?
I was just eating and then you all came up here.
We want to get down to meet.
This is one more because I'm not...
[Wade] When I was a kid, I never knew if I was around someone
who was gay, transgender... I never knew it.
So when Zion came out to us,
I had to get educated on it.
On every scenario, on every situation, and I'm still being educated.
-Ma'am? -Yes?
I see some extra stuff left on the table.
I'm not done.
Okay. [muttering]
[Wade] So my child comes home and says, "Hey, Dad.
I feel that I am a she."
My job is to help you become who you are.
But I'm not trying to change who you are.
I see you how you see you.
I stand for you.
And you know, that's the conversation I had to have with my daughter.
Like, what's the point of being on this Earth
if you're gonna try to be someone you're not?
It's like you're not living as yourself.
I feel like it's very worth it.
And you reach that point of, like, yourself.
-You're feeling free. -Yeah.
-You're feeling like you... -Yeah.
You're feeling like you don't have to hide.
Like, you could look in the mirror and, like, say hi to yourself.
-Like, "Nice to meet you." -Hm.
Instead of like, "Hm. I don't really know who I am.
-Mm. -Like a full identity crisis.
[Gabrielle gasps]
[coos] It's actually happening.
So, Dad, what do you always ask me about?
Every time I see you.
-You pregnant? -[Wade chuckles] Damn.
-Sort of. Sort of. -[chuckling]
Since how long have you been asking that question?
Since the late eighties.
-[laughs] -[father] Every time you see me.
We are expecting our daughter on Thanksgiving via surrogate.
No [bleep].
[laughter]
Congratulations. Congratulations.
[Wade] Yeah, I'm changing diapers. Picking noses.
[Gabrielle] There she is! [chuckles]
Yeah, look at her.
[indistinct chatter]
[Wade] I knew the wife and I was gonna have our first child together.
[baby cries]
That was my push away from the game.
So it was time.
It just came a point where I had to look in the mirror and say,
"What more do you want out of this?"
[reporter] It's a decision that is really kinda bittersweet for Heat fans
D. Wade coming back in what he's calling for one last dance.
[crowd chanting] We want Wade!
[Udonis] His legacy, he's a winner.
You take him outside of basketball,
you throw basketball out, he's a winner in life.
He's a winner in life.
[Jolinda] The legacy that this kid...
he got beautiful kids.
He got the wife that he loves.
[speaking indistinctly]
He's at the place now
step away from everything, step away from the plate.
Do you and you.
[Magic] I knew you were gonna be great. Not only on the court, but off the court.
You are bigger than basketball.
[Riley] When people talk about Dwyane Wade, they talk about him
with the one thing that you don't have given to you.
Nobody will ever give you respect unless you earn it.
[announcer] And the Heat certainly want to win it for Wade
here at home in his final game in this building.
[Paul] The realization that, you know, that ball really will stop bouncing
was tough but I can't thank him enough
for really being like my brother.
[reporter] The love he's seen across the country
one last dance here though, in Miami in the regular season.
Wayne County, I love you.
[reporter] Emotional night last night in his final game in Miami
Dwyane Wade expecting to play his final NBA game tonight
against the Nets.
[Wade] When that buzzer go off at about 10:30,
the next phase is here.
[reporter] And it's not so much the outcome, it's...
-Dwayne Wade's last game. -[reporter 2] The end of an era.
[Bosh] He's always been doing on that court,
Man... take that last lap and I mean, he deserves every piece of it
[announcer] Now you see him, then you won't.
[Wade] I realize that the game of basketball
gave me so much that I'm ready to be without it.
Young step, old man.
And I'm okay being without it
because of moments and the memories that we shared...
when we were together...
All those [bleep] are gonna last me a lifetime.
I'm still that kid from Robbins.
I'm still that kid from 59th and Prarie.
[sniffles] That nobody gave a chance to.
We did it though.
[sniffles] We did it.
My God, it's been incredible.
Incredible.
[sighs]
What's good, my boy?
-Mr. 3-0-5 -Yes, sir.
-Wade County. -Sixteen years later.
-We done made history. -Three rings on our fingers.
Pockets gettin' fatter. We gettin' greater
♪ I'm the son of a saint Still considered a sinner ♪
♪ Three rings on his finger Yeah, that boy was a winner ♪
♪ Never known as a singer But this might be a single ♪
♪ Always bet on your homies Then go buy the casino ♪
♪ Ball is my passion Check my stats if they askin' ♪
♪ Shorty checkin' my page She follow my fashion ♪
♪ My life is a film and Gab's the lead ♪
♪ She's so precious to me That's the air that I breathe ♪
♪ Time to fuel up the jet D. Wade jersey the drip ♪
♪ Lamborghinis to match Count through G's on the strip ♪
♪ These haters beneath us As I'm lacin' my sneakers ♪
♪ Season sixteen Lamborghinis and Neiman's ♪
♪ I'm shootin' my shot Every car that I cop ♪
♪ Every record I break Every rock in my watch ♪
♪ Every step that I take Still won't accept no mistakes ♪
♪ I'm talkin' major league Never minimum wage ♪
♪ So proud to be The descent of a slave ♪
♪ Motorcades, several Mercedes So get out my way ♪
♪ Tangerines, deal in my slippers Still twistin' up dank ♪
♪ Shed a tear for all my homies Black Bo and E. Gates ♪
♪ Let's find a masseuse Then inspire the youth ♪
♪ If it's best for the hood Then let's call it a truce ♪
♪ My chains get tangled These be hateful ♪
♪ My mama still prayin' So really I'm grateful ♪
♪ I'm still here Lookin' through the window ♪
♪ Watchin' the days go by Watchin' the sun rise ♪
♪ Why don't you try? ♪
♪ Ah-ha-ah-ha Ah-ha♪
♪ I'm still here Lookin' through the window ♪
♪ Watchin' the days go by Watchin' the sun rise ♪
♪ Why don't you try? ♪
♪ Ah-ha-ah-ha Ah-ha Ah-ha ♪