Dwyane Wade says the NBA lockout is hurting Miami Heat’s momentum
Dwyane Wade has been one unhappy guy during the NBA lockout.
The Miami Hear superstar, who made headlines last month after he laid into the NBA Commissioner David Stern during one of the bargaining sessions, has been a huge critic of the NBA owners and their tactics during the whole saga.
He has however one extra reason to be upset with the current NBA labour dispute.
The Lockout is hurting the Miami Heat’s surge.
The NBA lockout which began on July 1st is now threatening to wipe out the entire 2011-2012 NBA season, and that doesn’t go down well with Wade at all.
While all NBA players want to get back on the court and start playing, Dwyane has extra motivation. The super star shooting guard has high hopes for the Miami Heat and believes the team can win it all next season. Therefore, one
can understand his despair when a potential shot at the NBA World Championship is being put in jeopardy by the lockout.
"It's frustrating," Wade said. "Every player wants to get back on the court and play, for whatever reasons they have.”
"I am sure that every player on the Miami Heat can't wait to get back and try to get back to the place where we were last year, have success and hopefully get back to the finals where we can better ourselves -- that is our goal
and I am sure every player has been thinking that all summer.”
The Heat really are itching to get back on the court. The franchise that acquired super stars LeBron James and Chris Bosh last year went on an ‘almost’ fairy tale run. They romped through the regular season and tore apart all apposition
in the Eastern Conference playoffs only to fall short at the final hurdle.
That loss against the Dallas Mavericks haunts Dwyane, and he can’t wait to get back on the court and put things right.
"We got this close and couldn't pull it out and that makes you hungry, it makes you want to get back out there again."
There is only one problem; the season doesn’t look like starting anytime soon.
The NBA owners and players just cannot come to terms over a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The owners want a bigger piece of the pie but NBA players are not willing to go to certain extents.
That leaves the NBA season on the verge of collapse with negotiations turning increasingly frustrating. In one session, Wade himself is believed to have gotten into a shouting match with NBA Commissioner David Stern.
One understands thus that the player is not too optimistic about a solution right now. He just came back to the United States after tending to commitments as far as China and Australia, hoping to hear some good news.
Awaiting him though was another take it or leave it offer by Stern, who has ruled out further negotiations with the players union. Now it is up to the players to decide where this labour dispute goes, and veterans like Wade are
going to have a big say in that.
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