Sports 09-17 18: 12
Interpret greatness
“One Last Dance。 ”
Wade wrote only three short words on his IG, but solemnly announced that an era was coming to an end.
He then updated his Twitter feed with a 10-minute video "invitation" to all the fans who loved him: "I think it's time to invite you guys to my last performance." The last season, that's it. ”
After 15 years of brilliant career, it was finally time for Wade to say goodbye to us.
Last season, Wade averaged just 11.3 points, 3.8 boards and 3.4 assists per game, played as a substitute in 64 of 67 games, and the average time per game has slipped to 22.9 minutes. Indeed, for a player of his level, it is already a sunset. But if he's still willing to run on the field and enjoy the fun of competitive sports like Carter, he's still better than most of the players in the league, and he still has a lot of game experience and knows how to deal with every danger he's going to face.
As shown in the playoffs, 28 points in a single game, 25 points in a single game, and every crucial point that fell at a critical moment is like Wade showing off his past glory resume. He was a veteran and a treasure of wealth, a treasure that Miami could not measure with money.
However, he didn't want to go back and forth like this, not because he didn't love anymore, but because he had something more important to protect.
"I have asked myself countless times in my heart, can my body continue to support it? Can I still insist on getting up early every day to play? Can I still overcome the difficulty of getting up every morning and feeling struggling with every step? Can I still cope with the rush of the journey, can I get away from my family? Is it too selfish for me to insist on playing like this, and to spend less time with my family? Can I miss my son's game? Can I not be there when they need me? Can I spend as much time with my children as possible and read something for them? Can I give my wife strong support? I know it's very little for you, but for me, it's real life. ”
Yes, as Wade said, we really don't really care about how players actually feel in life. For us, the so-called deal, the transfer, is just a short piece of news, or a few letters on Twitter. It's hard to appreciate the toils of the players on the road, and it's even harder to feel and understand what they're going through at home. They are rich people, living a life richer than you and me in front of the screen, but they are also mortal, and they also have their own emotions, all of which are far better than the cold statistics.
So... Wade made a decision that most matched his entire career: a year of sacrifice for his family, for all the fans who loved him; for the next few years, it was for basketball, and for the family who always stood behind him.
He was a selfless man, always on and off the field.
I still remember the gray summer of 2011, after the loss of the Finals, James locked himself in a small dark room, for nearly two weeks did not speak to outsiders, the pain of failure and the insults of the outside world stimulated every fragile nerve of LeBron. Wade, too, is thinking about how to bring Miami back to the top of the championship.
Until then, they were all proud sons of heaven. One is the Flash, who has already won the championship, with strong explosiveness and impact, and the other is the winner of the two-time regular season MVP, the most comprehensive star in the league, who is looking forward to seeing their omnipotent combination of swords, and what is shown on the field is the "1+1<2" who takes turns to take over the game.
The "Now Or Never" phrase written on LeBron's Twitter ended up being the laughing stock, just two games away from the championship, and they lost to Dallas.
"For a while, I sat down quietly and thought about a lot of things, and then I gradually realized what we were playing for and what we were playing for." During his absence due to injury, Wade saw the strength of James when he led the team, and the team's performance of repeatedly defeating strong opponents touched Wade's heart: If James is in charge, he can help the Heat win continuously, so why should I fight with the power to win?
In later recollections, Wade talked about his decision to "let the sage": "I wanted to give him a chance to not have to think about these insignificant trifles at all, like I told him, 'Listen, I will find my rhythm, you don't have to care about me, I will stick to it no matter what, but you have to be the LeBron we really need on the court', I don't want to be a small obstacle to his psychology, I want to reduce his pressure. ”
So, we witnessed the Heat's consecutive championships, witnessed the classic moments of the scene, maybe there will be many people who remember the 27 consecutive wins that belong to the team, there will be many people who remember Ray Allen's three-point mark, of course, LeBron's double MVP performance, Bosh's roar, Battier's defense, Miller's three points, the past of the scene will become a memory left in the hearts of a generation of people, but the same, there will be fans who remember Wade's selflessness, remember his decision to draw fluids before each final, Remember the figure of him crawling to the ground to save the ball, and remember the glass of sweet champagne he gave to his knee when victory came.
None of this will appear in the technical statistics after the game, but it can always use its unique temperature to infect every fan who witnesses it.
"It's not my team, it's not LeBron's team, it's not Bosh's team, it's Allison's team. We play for his team, we're teammates, we wouldn't have won a championship without each other, and without me and the team, LeBron wouldn't be the LeBron we are today, and of course, vice versa. ”
There are few superstars who give everything for the team, regardless of money, status and fame, but this is Wade, and his most unique charm.
It is precisely because of this that people have almost forgotten the glory of the Flash in the past.
In the entire history of the NBA, only six players have ranked first in team history in terms of points, assists, steals and wins, and Wade is one of them.
In a chart called "Do It Again" released by the US media today, we once again enjoyed the brilliance of Wade's Career: total appearances (876 games), total playing time (31027 minutes), total points (20473 points), total assists (5009), total steals (1433), total wins (521 wins), total hits (7426 goals) and total free throw hits (5226 goals), all ranked first in team history.
This is more shocking than the average of 39.3 points in the last four games of the 2006 Finals, and the 30.2 points and 7.5 assists in the 2009 injury return, because it means not only excellence, but also loyalty and perseverance.
For me, Wade has always been a representative of the new generation and the middle generation of players, and in the depths of my memory, it is still full of Wade's lightning and omnipotent figure, but as he said at the beginning of the video, "Young people, time is like a white colt passing through the gap."
The story will come to an end, and sooner or later the ending will come.
"When I retire, I think I'll still love basketball, I'll want to play, I'll miss the passionate moments of the playoffs, I'll miss the fans shouting my name, and the shock of 20,000 fans booing me at the same time."
I think... We will definitely miss it.