Dwyane Wade Completely Ill Advised Comment
http://www.sportsgrid.com/media/dwyane-wade-world-trade-center/
Dwyane Wade makes completely Ill advised comment about this season.
"“We’re going to be wearing a bullseye. But that’s what you play for. If we lose a couple in a row this season, it will be like the World Trade (Center) is coming down again."
Anyone else think this is completely uncalled for?
I'm convinced that athletes say stupid things for publicity
That's giving them too much credit. I'm convinced most of them are just very, very dumb.
re-read the article. FanHouse misquoted Dwayne Wade.
“We’re going to be wearing a bullseye. But that’s what you play for. We enjoy the bullseye. Plus, there’s going to be times when we lose 2-3 games in a row, and it seems like the world has crashed down. You all are going to make it seem like the World Trade is coming down again, but it’s not going to be nothing but a couple basketball games."
Full quote. Not great, but not nearly as bad as the OP's initial quote implies. Might wanna update that.
Maybe too soon. I give it another 10 years before we can use "9/11" like "D-day"
D-Day was a fundamentally positive event. 9/11 was a fundamentally negative event.
Using 9/11 to describe a sporting event, occurrence, situation, etc. will forever and always be in incredibly bad taste.
Maybe for the rest of the country, but New York will do no such thing. My uncle's a city EMT and he is probably writing Mr. Wade an angry letter as we speak.
Pearl Harbor is a much better analogy. Then, as in 9/11, we were attacked and thousands died. You don't see people bringing it up in sports analogies.
It's going to be so much fun hating them
Alright Miami Heat, you better win the NBA championship...or the terrorists win.
He says if we lose a couple in a row... what an ass
Haha! True.
Not sure who negged you for that comment. Makes no sense.
...a fundamental misunderstanding of the relative importance of the events of Sept 11, 2001 and the fate of the Miami Freaking Heat.
Edit: now that it looks like he was misquoted, I just hope he gets an annoying hangnail.
Would love to hear the audio, because I don't really believe you make that kind of "mistake" accidentally if you're the reporter.
Obviously, the Miami Heat ARE America, and as the team goes, so goes the nation.
I was looking for some heavy sarcasm in my post but you my friend have nailed it. Take a bow.
Wouldn't the WTC have to be up again, for it to come down again?
i'm being facetious.
While we're talking about Wade, shouldn't we hold him to what his mother wrote on his birth certificate, and pronounce his name "Dwi-ane"? Maybe it would cause him to get his name legally corrected, since no one pronounces it right as it is.
Redacted
Fanhouse made a rather significant mistake. What a bunch of asses'!
This seriously hurts their credibility. How you screw up that badly on a quote is frankly beyond the understanding of this person.
I don't think anybody even clicked on the link before commenting.....and that would include the OP who grossly mis-titled this thread.
...they did. There's no way DWade's PR crew just realized the magnitude of his mistake and is trying to clean it up. No, that couldn't be.
Look, Wade IS likeable, but this just goes to show how out of touch these guys are. I'm not going to excoriate him for it -- this time.
That's so out of line and doesn't fit Wade's character at all. He's always been one of the more respected players in the game and I'd be surprised if the Fanhouse quote was legitimate.
...it doesn't fit the carefully scripted version of Wade's character we've been spoonfed by the NBA and his sponsors. Who knows what he's really like?
Journalists don't pull quotes out of the air. To invent something like this, invoking as sensitive a topic as 9/11, would be an incredible violation of journalistic ethics. I find it much more plausible that Wade said exactly what he was quoted as saying, and now feels embarassed about it, but is immaturely blaming the media instead of acknowledging that he made a mistake.
says that there was a transcription error. why would the fanhouse website immediately retract the article and re-print it with the proper quotes if d-wade were in fact responsible for the words originally attributed to him? they wouldn't, they'd have no reason to. what difference does it make to them? for them to go back and correct it so quickly should lead you to believe that they are the ones who made the error and not d-wade.
They didn't deny that he said it. They just presented the full quotation. They still have Wade bringing up 9/11 (only he's stupidly claiming that the media would make that analogy).
but with the full quote this simply isn't as big a deal as you're trying to make it
If we don't really know what he is like, who are you to assume the opposite of what I am assuming?
My brother in law played ball with Wade at Marquette. I've interacted peripherally with him when he was still there a few times and he was pretty down to earth even after it was clear that he was going to be a lottery pick. My brother in law wasn't a high profile player but Wade was cool to him.
He married his HS girl friend even after it was clear, at least to me, that she was diggin. I sat near her many times and she would talk openly about being rich. I guess that's natural to a certain extent but she was really tacky about it. They had a kid together before they were married, before he was a starter I think, but he didn't have to marry her. He could have paid her off back then and she would of been happy. He didn't do that.
Who knows what he's like now, but you don't need to automatically conclude that he's an asshole. Also, we know all too well that the media can get things wrong. Especially with a unsympathetic characters like Lebron and the Heat or Rich Rodriguez. I don't find it so far fetched that Fan House ginned up a sensational Headline to attract traffic, but didn't really think about the full ramifications of doing so.
Hmmm... big mistake, or convenient reinterpretation? It seems sort of hard to believe they misquoted him THAT badly. I give it 2 FAKES out of 3
Because I can smell a PR job from here on this "misquoted" crap.
What an inflated sense of self worth. These guys have been going city to city getting stroked by every owner/gm. Nice to see he stayed grounded through it all.
Edit: I will put my pitch fork away. Should have read the article.
you simply cannot leave words out of quotes like that. completely changes the voracity of the quote. awful
There are certain topics that are off limits to comedians: JFK, AIDS, the Holocaust. The Lincoln assassination just recently became funny. I need to see this play like I need a hole in the head. And I hope to someday live in a world where a person could tell a hilarious AIDS joke. Still one of my dreams.
