Found September 13, 2012 on Baller Mind Frame: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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Dwyane Wade was in his hometown of Chicago promoting his book, A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball, sitting down for an interview in front of several hundred people at the Union League Club. Among the topics Wade talked about, other than his book, is the acquisition of Dwight Howard and Steve Nash by the Los Angeles Lakers and the expectations to win a championship. Wade definitely knows about that, particularly when he, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh joined forces during the 2010 offseason and finally winning the title last season. However, the Miami Heat superstar has basically been talking about that at every stop of the book tour, so it must have been refreshing to speak about another Windy City native son, the Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose. Rose, rehabbing from a knee injury, received some unsolicited advice by Wade: “He doesn’t talk much, so I don’t know much,” Wade said. “But you have to work even harder once you have an injury. He has to rebuild himse...
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