If Dwyane Wade's decline is really upon us to this degree, than so be it. Not everyone has elite longevity, but he's one of the best players to ever do it.
It seems like folks on the Coli don't really appreciate this.
I mean, he gets insulted and patronized about being a 2-3 option on a title team in the last phase of his prime and barely gets any benefit of the doubt despite past performance.
Because like HOBE, Wade has always piggybacked off of somebody else to achieve his shine
Jordan, he brought those titles to Chicago with help of Pippen an others
But no mistake it was Jordan
This bout Wade tho.. Miami wasn't doing shyt, then they got Shaq
They won.. And Zo was playing defense that year like no center EVER
I wasn't around for the Wilts/etc era. Zo dominated in a way Shaq never did
It was awesome. To have Zo and Shaq on your team? You better fukkin win a title
He was SUPPOSED to be the leading scorer too. And he went off for about 2gms
But you know what, Dirk did the same shyt 2yrs ago, nobody is going "

dirk"
Now Lebron comes to MiA.. He's clearly the better player
Like, nobody thought he'd shyt on Wade. Wade was even like "Yo, he's batman"
Don't give Hobe or Wade the BEST PLAYERS IN THE LEAGUE and neither would have won a title (Tru Story)
whats gonna happen to lebron?
He's either gonna develop a jumper of suffer the same fate. His J has gotten wetter over the years tho
Damn....the disrespect.
He's played in over 600 career NBA games and is sixth All Time in PER. He's a 25, 7,5 guy in his prime with a Finals MVP.
Why disrespect that?
Steve Nash was a two time League MVP, and gets disrespected all the time
He did that w/out needing a Shaq or Lebron to pad those stats.
If Wade consistently had Mia in the finals (even ECF) then he'd be higher in my eyes.
But once shaq left, they struggled. Didn't sniff a title after that
Then Lebron comes, and he's "This 2 time champion now" like if Mia wouldn't have won w/out Wade? Trade wade for any "average" 15/17pt a game guy and they easily take that title last year. Wade had nothing to do with it
If we basing shyt soley off titles, then Robert Horry >>> Jordan, Hobe, Wade
