Gary Payton and D-Wade talk to Pat Riley about the long Heat practices from the 2006 championship run:
GP: “listen he would put us on the bike for 45 minutes and put the heart thing on us then we would talk for 40 minutes and then we would have practice for 2 hours. I’m like ‘that’s 5 hours’.”
D-Wade: “he ain’t lyin.”
Pat: “were you in shape? Best player in the world. You were the best player in the world at that time…”
(via @wynetwork)
20 years ago today:
Dwyane Wade dropped 35 points to lead the Miami HEAT to a win over the Detroit Pistons in Game 3, taking a 2-1 series lead.
Wade:
35 PTS
13-17FGs
8 REB
4 AST
Refs in a span of 1 minute of game action.
Miss an obvious goal tend.
Miss a hook and hold calling a foul on the spurs instead.
Miss an out of bounds.
Gather and still miss the call.
Don’t let the challenge go through.
Give SGA a foul call.
Technical.
I’m not even making this up.
Draymond Green on the Dwayne Wade and Patrick Beverley beef:
“D-Wade comes back and he’s like, I don’t understand why Patrick Beverley would say anything like that you ain’t good enough to talk about me. I like how D-Wade popped his sh*t, I respect it I’m not getting in the middle of those two brothers. You know, that’s a Chicago thing you let them do there thing. But, I will say Pat Bev coming out and throwing that three point percentage out, was hilarious. Well Pat Bev the defense was guarding y’all a lil bit different brotha.”
(Via @DraymondShow)