Dwyane Wade Details LeBron James' Recruitment To Miami Heat & Sharing Their Contract Information

ready for him to come back upstairs. What are you doing? Think, what do you think he saw Pat and Eric with Coach SPO to say, you know what? No, this is the guy who can do it and he is becoming one of the best coaches in the NBA. Well, if you see, that's once again the reason why I don't Sometimes I don't listen to the players because if you listen to me when they first hired SPO, I thought, what are you doing? This is the wrong decision, as I remember when Mickey and Nick Arison sat me down and said, "Hey, we." We're bringing up SPO like SPO was. in the video room and then he sat behind the bench and said, Hey, we're going to hire from within and it's going to be Eric Poer and I said err.

I'm looking for a renowned trainer, Bab. I am a star. I'm like who do we get, let's get the doctor we're right and he knew SPO. I had a great relationship with SPO because SPO would help me be my training guy so I like SPO but I didn't know SPO as a coach and when he first got there he was a terrible coach but he was a great guy to prepare you , he was going to work you hard, no one was going to work harder than him, no one was going to be more prepared for him, I just had to learn when to call timeouts, what plays to run out of timeouts, what late play, all these things that you have to learn as a coach, as a star player.

I had to go through that with coach and that's where our relationship is what it is. It's today because we went through this well we went through thank you this we went through everything because the journey of a young coach so we all went in trying to fire him I don't know if I was in that meeting right, but maybe I was, I don't know, I don't remember that, I don't remember trying to get them fired. Lebron left Miami, yes, did they have a conversation? Did you know that he was thinking about leaving Miami? And you believed him?

He would go back to Cleveland uh I didn't know he was thinking about that right away. I mean, we just had a four-year streak, that wasn't what he was thinking about, right? I didn't think Cleveland was on the docket list in "Okay, once that letter came out four years earlier, I thought, "Well, it's over for them, yeah, I appreciate that, yeah, yeah, and it was when we went in in free agency that summer. "I didn't think we were." I'm not coming back well, I thought we were going to come back good, that's what teams do, they come back good, um, so once I started hearing the noise outside and started hearing Cleveland, I started seeing things and I thought, oh, the noise is true. right, some truth in the noise, yeah, there's truth even in a lie, yeah, there's something in there and I didn't even know it existed because we never talked about it, right, hey, that was never our conversation, so when I walked in the

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about him um heading back to Cleveland um I mean I took it like I take everything else I took it on the chin because I'm not a selfish guy I mean I do.

I have selfish acts and selfish moments, but my whole being is not selfish and if that is what that man wants to do with his life, I support him to do it, I simply have to figure out my life because I had a completely different plan for how I wanted mine to be good and you know. What I told him at that moment we were sitting outside the plane. I think even the camera crew could have gotten us talking because we had just gotten back from Vegas before the announcement was made the next day and we were sitting there and I told him.

I said, man, listen, everyone is going to win, no matter what you do, if you stay here, we all win, LeBron James stays in Miami, we win, you go to Cleveland, Cleveland is going to win, ultimately, you have I have to do what's best for LeBron, so if this is it. what's best for LeBron James Savannah James Bryce and bronnie and Z weren't at that stage if this was best for your family, you have my if you're looking for a blessing for me, you have my blessing, right? I'm not going to stop you now I have to go negotiate with my side because I had a completely different mentality.

I opted out of my deal. I did all these things because I thought, hey, we're retooling well and a lot of people like to say it was part of I was a little angry, yeah, I'm human, right? I don't want to lose the best player in the game. What do we do? Why do we lose it? And also now I have to discover my future. I've given up a lot of my beginning and haven't given up my place for you to step in and help guide us, so it took me a while and Bri and I had a conversation later once before we got to Cleveland. about that moment and how good I felt and how he felt, we sat down like men and talked about that moment and moved on.

It was a difficult time for you because you gave up 20 million dollars that were not returned to you. yeah, you don't get it, you don't get your money back, hey, money doesn't come back people, you can earn more, but you won't get that money, you won't get one, I don't care what anyone tells you. You can't recruit that money or the penny.