Adrian Wojnarowski "D Wade gets no more knee excuse for the rest of the Finals"

[valet]

Bout time somebody stood up. It's all mental. This niguh hate being #2 now, so this is how he cries about it.

For all the praise heaped upon Dwyane Wade's most prosperous performances, the criticism comes sheepishly when he fails to play the part of Robin to LeBron James' Batman.

Let Wade play lousy, and it's his knee. Let him do his job – play superbly – and he's courageous, heroic, a champion defying the declarations of his decline. The storylines are wired. This way, Wade never loses. From James to Erik Spoelstra to Chris Bosh, the best gig on the Heat belongs to Wade.

When the Heat desperately needed a victory in Game 4, needed to spare themselves a deep hole in these NBA Finals, Wade delivered his most prodigious play of the postseason: 32 points, six rebounds and six steals to embolden a 109-93 obliteration of the San Antonio Spurs.

"He went back in his bag," James said. "He was Flash tonight."

[Related: Heat's Big Three put on best showing of 2013 playoff run]

Dwyane Wade had his best game of this postseason on Thursday. (AP)

As much as Wade's dominance was a validation of his greatness, it was too an indictment of the parade of pedestrian and poor performances that had come before it.

Truth be told, it makes executives, coaches and players around the league wonder about the severity of his knee injury. No one is suggesting the knee is at full strength, but it sure didn't hinder him in Game 7 of the conference finals, nor Game 4 on Thursday night. Wade made a choice to play hard, made plays everywhere on the floor, and that hasn't always been the case this season.

"Of course he's hurting," James said. "He's been playing with a bum knee all year."

Wade loves the drama of it all, loves to leave everyone with that slow, limp when his shots aren't dropping into the basket. This best-of-seven series is 2-2 now, Wade has two full days of rest for Game 5 on Sunday, and there shouldn't be one more discussion about his knee.

The Big Three were brought together to win championships, deliver in the championship chase and Wade's lift, his explosion, in Game 4 was proof there's nothing stopping him now. Bum knees don't allow that on the Spurs in the NBA Finals.

"That's what great players do," the Spurs' Tony Parker said. "They show up in big games."

Great players show up every night, and Parker knows that. This is the standard with which Wade should be held every game in the playoffs. This was the duty that Wade assigned himself when recruiting James and Bosh to Miami.

Across three seasons together, this was the best the Big Three had played together in the playoffs. Beyond Wade, James had 33 points and 11 rebounds. Bosh had 20 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks. The Heat are untouchable this way, unbeatable.

"We're not going to win this series if myself, Chris and LeBron don't show up to play on a consistent basis," Wade said.

[Photo gallery: Heat tie NBA Finals 2-2 with convincing win in San Antonio]

For everything that hangs over James, Wade doesn't get to step out of the light now. This is a two-out-of-three series, and no one wants to give Wade an out because of injury anymore. Because 32 points, six rebounds, four assists and six steals is the loudest declaration that his knee is sound, his Big Three responsibilities unchanged.

No more crutches for a superstar, no more ducking out in the shadows. Wade is still a great player, still able to do it all and the world watched him on Thursday night. Flash was back on Thursday night, but some of these nights – some of these spry and electric performances – make people wonder whether that dangerous, defying Dwyane Wade ought to be seen more often for the Miami Heat.

 

[MVike28]

Woj furious

 

[Big Boss]

Wade is clearly hurt

 

[Da_Eggman]

don't you love a guy like Wojnarowski that never played telling a real athlete how they should feel about there injuries

truly dush move

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

How he gon put that much pressure on an integral role player? Doubt he was talkin this much shyt about Odom during our run...

 

[TheNig]

don't you love a guy like Wojnarowski that never played telling a real athlete how they should feel about there injuries

truly dush move

1. Shut up. You haven't been heated from in days now you coming out the fukking briar patch talking lip.

2. As radical as Wojo can be at times, he's right.

 

[Da_Eggman]

1. Shut up. You haven't been heated from in days now you coming out the fukking briar patch talking lip.

2. As radical as Wojo can be at times, he's right.

1.Your a fakkit

2.Go fukk yourself

hes not right since hes not a player or an athlete and he is not Wade how the fukk does he know how his knee feels

this is a shytty hating article disguise
made purely so if Wade does bad the next few game he can point to this and say you cant blame the injury

if he wrote it about Tony Parker id feel the same way you cant tell an athlete how they feel

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

So where you been these past few days @Da_Eggman?

You should go back there, except this time kill yourself.

 

[Da_Eggman]

So where you been these past few days @Da_Eggman?

You should go back there, except this time kill yourself.

i seem to remember calling you a fakkit just a day ago

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

i seem to remember calling you a fakkit just a day ago

My bad but I don't recall, its kinda hard for me to remember sassy outbursts. You could do me that favor and kill yourself tho?

 

[Da_Eggman]

My bad but I don't recall, its kinda hard for me to remember sassy outbursts. You could do me that favor and kill yourself tho?

i owe you no favors

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

i owe you no favors

Touche. Fair enough...

 

[MVike28]

1. Shut up. You haven't been heated from in days now you coming out the fukking briar patch talking lip.

2. As radical as Wojo can be at times, he's right.

for Woj now?

This Stephen King azz cacc who writes fantasy novels about Bron and Zeke

Here's a sampling of this herb's articles

When James was hosting parties in Vegas, Durant was practicing with Team USA in the afternoons and his own trainers in the evening. When the Miami Heat walked out on a smoke-filled stage in South Florida, preening, declaring themselves perhaps the greatest threesome since the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Durant watched it all out of the corner of his eye – "The Decision," the parties, the self-congratulations – and kept coming for them in the gymnasium, and now, here in Istanbul at the world championships."

 

[jfkennedy]

don't you love a guy like Wojnarowski that never played telling a real athlete how they should feel about there injuries

truly dush move

 

[TheNig]

He's dumb dawg.

And I've been talking about Wade half ass showing up since the Bulls series tryna figure out if he's really hurt or if his game had regressed.