Dwyane Wade accepts the Big Three of Miami Heat could start a trend – NBA News
A lot of eyebrows were raised when the Miami Heat assembled a star cast to take on the rest of the league last summer. Super star players Dwyane Wade, former Toronto Raptor Chris Bosh and the indomitable LeBron James united in
South Beach to try and revive Miami’s fortunes and win some NBA World Championships. Wade now accepts that the Heat’s plan could provide a blueprint for many future teams to follow.
Miami certainly became a powerhouse overnight when the three stars converged in Miami. The Heat struggled at the start of the 2010-2011 season but eventually the new players overcame some issues, became more used to playing together
and the result was a robust and dominating basketball team.
Miami finished strong in the regular season and romped through the playoffs, disposing of traditional powerhouse the Boston Celtics as well as the emerging Chicago Bulls to reach the NBA Finals.
Wade was asked in an interview whether the success of Miami in just their first year could inspire other teams and players to follow the same route and pool together their resources, and the Heat guard replied in the affirmative,
"Yes, we have," Wade said Thursday morning during an event for his "Wade's World" charity. "I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, but more guys are going to look to team up and do things like that."
However, there was also a negative side to the whole issue. Many people believed the Heat and its Big Three, LeBron James, Dwyane and Bosh, were taking the easy way out by joining together. Many people questioned whether the arrangement
put other NBA franchises at a disadvantage. While still more just plain despised the team for the events that took place in the summer, with regards to LeBron James and his “Decision”.
Whatever the reason was, Miami faced unprecedented hostility from NBA fans, other than their own, and stringing criticism from the media almost throughout the season. Wade has labelled the criticism as unfair previously and when
he was asked to elaborate on why he thought Miami were vilified so much, the player put it down mostly to change,
"I don't know. I wish I could pinpoint it," he said. "Obviously, people don't like change. And we changed things. We changed the way things were done. People don't like that. It takes time to get used to it. Whenever you're the
first to do something, it's not always the best thing. But eventually later on you get to see, it wasn't that bad.”
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