People Are Absolutely Stunned And Stupefied To Hear Dwyane Wade Is Leaving Miami

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In what may be the single most surprising move of the summer, Dwyane Wade is reportedly leaving the Miami Heat for the Chicago Bulls. It’s going to be a really, really weird sight seeing Wade in a Bulls jersey, but barring something crazy happening between now and the start of the regular season, it appears that we’re going to have to get used to that.

Like always, the internet reacted swiftly to the news that Wade is splitting. The more humorous tweets mostly made fun of Pat Reilly, who unsurprisingly got the crying Jordan treatment from a few folks.

https://twitter.com/jtylerconway/status/750862963008045061

There was also DWade…no, not Dwyane Wade, we mean Dan Wade, the poor guy on Twitter who has the handle @DWade and is currently the owner of an amazing array of mentions.

https://twitter.com/BarroldBonds/status/750870104456433664

But Wade’s decision to leave brought out a number of basketball people who tried to contextualize Wade’s decision, both by discussing how big this move is for Miami and mentioning how he’ll fit in Chicago.

One of the more interesting takes on this comes from Ramona Shelburne of ESPN, who talked to someone who said that this move was a case of “Miami dared a very proud man to go home, and that man’s best friend just won a title by going home.”

Oh, and back to Reilly for a second. While a lot of people just made jokes about how his franchise’s most legendary player just split town, Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today found a quote that Reilly gave about how he planned on approaching Wade in free agency.

Considering that part of the reason that Wade reportedly began looking around was that Miami lowballed him on its initial offer, that quote is something else in retrospect.

Also, this:

Now, what did the rest of Twitter think?

Wade’s former teammate has responded:

https://twitter.com/youngwhiteside/status/750875480765698048

And, it’s official:

Because this involves something happening in his hometown of Chicago, we’ll let Kanye have the last word on this.