Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade is an American former professional basketball player, born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 17, 1982, who is now a basketball executive and a co-owner of the Utah Jazz. A shooting guard nicknamed D-Wade and Flash, he spent most of a sixteen year National Basketball Association career with the Miami Heat, won three championships there and was named the 2006 NBA Finals MVP. He reached the 2003 Final Four with the Marquette Golden Eagles and was drafted fifth overall by Miami that year. Wade won the scoring title in the 2008-09 season, was a thirteen time All-Star, played briefly for the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers, then returned to Miami and retired in 2019. For the United States he took bronze at the 2004 Olympics and gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics with the Redeem Team. The Heat retired his number 3, and he entered the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023 and again in 2025 as a member of the Redeem Team.