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Wade revealed himself! He didn t join forces with James

7:55pm, 6 August 2025【Basketball】

Just after I browsed my phone, I saw Wade picking up the old calendar of 2010 in the podcast, and I sat up straight - that was a phone call that changed the entire alliance pattern.

Wade said this: "I was ready to go back to my hometown and join the Chicago Bulls. The free agent market just opened, and I had a thought in my mind: leave Miami."

As a result, he answered a phone call, and the number showed "No. 6". LeBron said to the opposite side, "The three of us can play together", and tore the script.

Don't rush to shout "It's a cold rice again", this time the amount of information is really quite large.

Wade added: "Except Kobe, LeBron is my favorite person to play against the table. I never thought of being a teammate with him."

It can be heard that his shock at that time was similar to that of our ordinary fans-the two strongest scorers in the East. They were fighting each other in the playoffs the day before, and they said they wanted to wear the same pair of pants the next day. Who wasn't confused?

What's even more outrageous is that Wade has almost finished talking about the details of the contract given by the Bulls, and even the posters in Chicago are ready to print "Welcome Home".

But the Heat management has long made the abacus crackle: make room to eat the maximum salary of Wade, James and Bosh at the same time, and the specific operation is to reduce the three brothers a little. Wade later admitted that Chicago could only earn two All-Stars, and only the Heat could put three at a time.

One side is the hometown jersey that I dreamed of since childhood, and the other side is an unprecedented super warship. Everyone can suffer from insomnia for several nights. Everyone is familiar with the things that happened next: in four years, four finals, two consecutive championships, Zhan Wei became the youth of that generation of fans.

But few people remember that it took Wade less than 48 hours to make this decision in 2010. He laughed in the podcast and said, "I went back to the hotel, my mind was like a movie. I remembered the cup I won in 2006, and the brothers waiting for me to go home outside the Chicago Arena. Finally, I told myself: the championship window is right in front of me, don't hesitate."

In this thought, Ross missed the strongest helper, James got the ring in advance, and Bosh also proved that he was not just the "Dragon King" but the championship puzzle.

Interestingly, Wade returned to the Bulls in 2016, but Ross was injured by then and Chicago's championship window was almost closed.

He laughed at himself in the podcast: "It's considered half a dream come true, but unfortunately he's six years late." He put all the sighs of many people in one sentence.

Looking back, the phone call not only changed the fate of the three teams, but also rewritten the NBA's team building logic - stars began to take the initiative to form teams, and the management began to be considered the "big three" rather than the "gemini".

Later, Durant went to the Warriors and Harden to join the Nets, more or less with the shadow of the summer of 2010.

To put it more truthfully, if Wade really went to the Bulls back then, there would be another chessboard in the East: Ross + Wade's backcourt speed could overturn the stadium ceiling, and James would either hold on to the Cavaliers or would have to go to New York to receive a bigger spotlight.

But history has no if, only results.

The Heat's three giants have become, and two rings are hung above the American Airlines Arena. Wade's revelation this time is just a reminder: those things that seem inevitable happened were actually only a call less than three minutes apart.

So next time I see the stars "suddenly" joining forces, don't rush to scold the "League Finale". Fifteen years ago, someone gave us a class with a phone call.

--In the NBA, the only thing that remains unchanged is that it may change completely in the next second.