Shorter rest periods benefit Dwyane Wade’s sore knee

SAN ANTONIO— Much was made of Heat guard Dwyane Wade wearing hot packs on his legs when he sat on the bench during Game 4 of the NBA Finals. On Friday, Wade downplayed it and said it was more about resting for shorter periods. It kept his sore right knee from stiffening on the sideline. [...]

Wade’s bounceback effort key in helping Heat advance

MIAMI— After struggling through much of the Eastern Conference finals and a dismal performance in Game 6, the conversation about Dwyane Wade’s effectiveness and his future in Miami seemingly reached a fever pitch. Was the All-Star’s Heat career coming to an end? Could he ever be productive again? If his troublesome knee was hurting so [...]

Spoelstra blames himself for Bosh and Wade’s woes

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra speaks after game six loss. MIAMI— — Despite returning to South Florida in the wee hours Sunday morning and clearly substituting sleep for game-tape study of one of the Heat’s worst playoff performances of his five-year tenure as head coach, a surprisingly upbeat Erik Spoelstra said it was up [...]

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra defends Dwyane Wade’s performance

MIAMI — Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra wanted to deliver one message regarding the status of guard Dwyane Wade. Wade is helping the team, not hurting it. If so, the Heat would be struggling instead of cruising through the postseason. A day after Wade aggravated his sore right knee in Game 4 against the Chicago [...]

Spoelstra downplays Wade’s knee, cites ‘collisions’

MILWAUKEE—    Erik Spoelstra isn’t a doctor, but the Miami Heat coach got to play one Friday.    Asked about the best course of treatment for Dwyane Wade’s balky right knee, Spoelstra said, “no collisions.”    But in the next breath Spoelstra said that doesn’t mean there is necessarily a need to hold Wade out [...]

Dwyane Wade’s success doesn’t seem to impress hometown Chicago

CHICAGO — Back then, Dwyane Wade had it all planned it out. Like others before him, he was set play to high school basketball here in the inner-city. Then maybe, just maybe, he would have avoided having to play catch-up all these years to those who came before him. Some were just as talented, others [...]

Dwyane Wade’s pump fake still working for Heat

MIAMI –— It’s a move no NBA player wants to be on the receiving end. So embarrassing, they go out of their way to say they were nowhere near the play. “It wasn’t me,” Raptors guard Jose Calderon said, correcting a reporter. “He got us two or three times, but it wasn’t me.” Calderon on [...]

James’ triple-double, Wade’s 35, Allen’s late shots lift Heat in OT

MIAMI—   The Miami Heat had the look early on of a team coming off a five-day break.   As it turned out, they had plenty of time to regain their legs.   On a night when the rebounding was there from the start, Erik Spoelstra’s team found a way to extend its winning streak to [...]

Wade’s agent plans to appeal NBA suspension

   Henry Thomas, the agent for Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade, told the Sun Sentinel that he plans to appeal Wade’s one-game NBA suspension for Wade’s kick to the groin of Charlotte Bobcats guard Ramon Sessions.    While Wade was forced to sit out Friday’s loss to the Detroit Pistons, with that part of the [...]

Dwyane Wade’s mom helps build a village in Haiti

A trip to Haiti with South Florida’s nonprofit Food for the Poor is motivating the mother of basketball star Dwyane Wade to build a village in the struggling Caribbean nation. Jolinda Wade, a pastor with her own church in Chicago, plans to raise more than $ 650,000 for the initial 100-home project, partly from fellow [...]

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