Gavriel and Torrence step into the time machine to hark back on the career of one of the NBA's all-time great shooting guards who starred as a member of the Miami Heat for 15 out of his 16 seasons in Dwyane Wade on a special episode of Second Chance Points.
As the friends reflect on what impressed them the most about a young Wade's game during after coming across his exploits at the college ranks during his junior season at Marquette en route to guiding the program to the Final Four in 2003 and going on to earn himself All-Rookie First Team honors the following year after guiding Miami to the playoffs (00:54), before getting into the moments where they realized the man known as Flash emerge as the quintessential leader of the pack beside fellow Hall of Famers such as Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning and Gary Payton on the way towards guiding the Heat organization to their first NBA championship in 2006 (05:19).
In addition to also reflecting back on his finest individual campaign during the 2008-09 season fresh off of capturing Olympic gold with USA Basketball in the 2008 Beijing Olympics (11:11), the toughest adjustments Wade had to make in order to make the star-studded Big 3 partnership with LeBron James & Chris Bosh work and capture back-to-back championships in 2012 and 2013 (16:13).
Including if the 2023 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee should have opted to leave South Beach during the free agency period of 2010 to play in his hometown of Chicago beside Derrick Rose on the Bulls (21:14), before deliberating on whether the debacle between Wade and Pat Riley that led to his unsettling departure post-Heatles era still haunts Miami's overall perception among players in the league today (27:10) as well as his overall impact on the two-guard position (34:44), prior to sharing their favorite all-time games & moments over the course of No. 3's illustrious career in The Association (38:47).
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