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Wade's mission: forget Athens.(NBA)(National Basketball Association, Dwyane Wade)

The Sporting News

| November 01, 2004 | Deveney, Sean | COPYRIGHT 2004 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Even if everything had gone as summer wasn't going to be easy for Heat guard Dwyane Wade. He was coming off a lights-out performance in the postseason that boosted him to near-stardom, confirming what the Heat thought when the team drafted him in 2003--he is a player who knows how to win, who knows how to be at his best when it matters most. When his season ended with a Game 6 conference semifinals loss to the Pacers on May 18 (five weeks after LeBron James and almost three weeks after Carmelo Anthony, the NBA's much-hyped rookie studs, were done playing), Wade was planning for a rough-and-tumble summer back home in Chicago. By day, he would work on his body and his ...

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