March 17, 2017: Run Wade

Yes, even during March Madness, I’m still tuning into the Bulls. It was another loss at Washington which makes us 2-8 in our last 10.  It’s not going to get any better soon.  On an unrelated note, Dwyane Wade is out for the year with a fractured elbow.

Ok, he wasn’t that bad.  He played in 56 games…out of 67;  he only missed 15% of the games.  In today’s NBA, that’s pretty good, especially for an old guy getting paid way too much money.  Ahem.

He really served as a great leader.  He showed Jimmy how to publically rip your teammates; that’s leadership 101 stuff.  He led by example missing 15% of the games while missing many more practices.  Who wouldn’t want to be DWade?

Yes, as he reminded fans in Boston last Sunday, he has won 3 rings.  I don’t have to remind you that none of them were won in a Bulls uniform.

He came into Chicago about six years too late.  The local kid was interested in playing for his hometown team.  He would team up with another kid from the Chi and form an impressive backcourt.  That’s what we were led to believe. That’s what we wanted to believe.  No, I don’t believe he had any intentions of playing here back then.  He played with our emotions.  He used us.

So now, six years later, he wants to come play for his hometown team.  The thing is, we were just a rebound relationship from his messy divorce in Miami.  We were stupid, and desperate enough, to pay him all that cash, even though it was the complete opposite of what we should have been doing. Instead of getting younger, more athletic, and finding someone who could actually shoot from long distance, we went for the big name.  The name was still relevant, the player was not.
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He acted like he cared.  Hey, I respect any and all positive things he has done OFF the court.  Chicago needs that positivity.  Maybe that should trump it all?  But we’re talking ON the court here, and he had zero positive impact there.

Once a true NBA superstar…a guy in that era, who after Kobe, you would want taking that last shot.  Like Kobe, he teamed up with Shaq for that first ring.  Then, he served as that guy that LeBron needed to lead him to a title. That was then; this is now.

Let’s just call it what it was: a mistake.  We should have been smarter than that, but that’s asking for a lot from the two bozos leading us down this path.  The myth that he would bring more free agents to Chicago was believed by nobody, at least nobody who knew anything.  We knew what it was all along; it was an attempt to make a splash and keep people in the seats.  It was meant to keep things interesting, not make things better.  We needed Wade for this, and Wade needed us.

He needed somewhere to fall back on after him and Riley had a falling out. Oh yeah, quick newsflash:  the Heat will be making the playoffs, the Bulls won’t be. Wade needed a good story.  Yes he needed to find a team that would pay him all this dough, but the “return home” was the perfect out for him.  We can see right through it.

Neil talked about Wade potentially coming back for the postseason; I smirked.  Then I read about a fashion show he’s doing this Sunday; I chuckled.  The gig is up.  Was Wade on the bench for this game?  We know better.  He’s preparing for his fashion show, fittingly called Run Wade. That exactly what I want him to do.  Here’s hoping we’ve seen him in a Bulls uniform for the last time.