LeBron James and Dwyane Wade played only four seasons together with the Miami Heat, but their bond goes well beyond that. For starters, the two future Hall of Famers are close friends, and they both entered the league via the 2003 NBA Draft as top-five selections. Since then, James and Wade have been closely-tied even while spending 10 full seasons apart, and even as they both enter 2017-2018 representing different organizations, there was still time for the soon-to-be 15-year veterans to celebrate this week.
James used a “Winter Is Coming” reference to document his excitement for the upcoming campaign and even doubled down on the “#savagemode” that he has been forecasting on social media throughout the offseason. Not to be outdone, Wade posted the same image of the two stars together and indicated that he and James “both helped push each other to go outside of our comfort zones.”
This wasn’t the first time the public got a peek behind the curtain to see the “week of work” both players put in, and that is some of the beauty of the social media landscape in 2017. Still, there have been plenty of rumors that Wade, if he is bought out by the Bulls, could join James in Cleveland for one final (or not so final?) run at a title, and this won’t do much to dampen that buzz, even if the veteran shooting guard doesn’t want us to read into it.
LeBron James and Dwyane Wade have been sitting atop the NBA world for a decade and a half, and quite frankly, it remains impressive to reflect on that era even now.
