Even though they now play on different teams, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are bros for life after winning two titles together with the Miami Heat. Recently, we’ve seen D-Wade and The King reunite for a workout and even talk about trying to play together again one day along with Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony.
Wade was unable to hold up his end of the bargain this year of the two matching up in the Eastern Conference Finals, but ESPN still took a deeper look into the friendship between the All-Stars in a profile by Pablo Torre. (We talked to Torre about LeBron on our most recent podcast.)
There is a lot of great stuff in the piece about how deep the bond is between Wade and James, and it also revealed that the two aren’t afraid to use the L-word with one another. Wade is, of course, married to Gabrielle Union, but apparently he has enough love to pass around between Union and his ex alley-oop partner, even if it has a bit of a different meaning.
But, for some reason, saying love is something different. And when Wade is asked whether he and James use the word, he instinctively recoils. “Not like with my wife!” he exclaims. “It ain’t like looking at each other eye to eye, like, I love you.”
But then Wade takes a second to think. “You know, yeah, we say love,” he says. “There’s nothing wrong with men expressing love for each other, if you’re secure in your manhood and who you are. So, yeah. We’ll end a conversation with Aight. Love. Or, Love you, bro. We have that kind of relationship.”
For her part, Union seemed shocked that her husband would show the vulnerability to tell another man that he loved him.
“If you hear D-Wade say the L-word,” Union says, “I want to know. E-mail me.”
