The early 2010s Miami Heat was easily one of the most talented teams in NBA history. It was just completely unfair to pair LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh together on one team. Of course, James and Wade were the two biggest stars on the roster but everyone understood that the Heat was Wade\u2019s team. That said, LeBron didn\u2019t waste any time ensuring everyone understood that he was unlike any other player.<\/p>\n
LeBron\u2019s<\/a> decision to join the Heat<\/a> had practically made them unbeatable, at least on paper. He was fresh off winning back-to-back MVP awards. At the young age of 24, his potential seemed limitless. Heat president of basketball operations Pat Riley knew that would only lead to good things for the team.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n But no matter how much star power the team had, it wasn\u2019t as simple as plug-and-play. Incorporating stars of such magnitude as James and Bosh isn\u2019t an easy task. LeBron wasn\u2019t in a position to take a back seat, which he made clear in the team\u2019s practices.<\/p>\n Former NBA player Norris Cole was a member of the Heat during James\u2019 tenure. He witnessed firsthand one of the most heated moments between James and his now close friend Dwyane Wade<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was one practice, him and D-Wade got to going at it,\u201d Cole said on the Club 520 Podcast. \u201cThem two was basically playing 1-on-1 in practice with just four other cats out there.\u201d<\/p>\n James and Wade know how to separate themselves from basketball. However, once they were in between those lines, they became the ultimate competitors. This specific practice, the competitive energy between the two was at an all-time high. Their duel would\u2019ve been must-watch television for the average fan. Unfortunately, there\u2019s no footage, so Cole\u2019s word will have to suffice.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n It quickly became a consensus that this practice wasn\u2019t going to go as originally planned. Cole revealed that it seemed LeBron had a special agenda.<\/p>\n *\u201cIt was [LeBron] proving a point that he was different. D-Wade is different too, he\u2019s an alien. He hit a couple, and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s about to be one of them practices,’\u201d* Cole said.<\/p>\n All of a sudden, the other eight players on the court became completely irrelevant. James and Wade were having a one-on-one matchup masked in a five-on-five scrimmage. However, the type of shots that they were making weren\u2019t easy by any means, especially the ones James was making, which Cole remembers quite vividly.<\/p>\n \u201cHe starts shooting shots like wrong leg left hand hooks layups. Starts doing almost MJ layups, not looking. Then he\u2019d run down and look at Pat Riley like, \u2018I know it\u2019s different. I know D-Wade is y\u2019all boy, but I know it\u2019s different,’\u201d Cole proclaimed.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n If James\u2019 performance in that practice wasn\u2019t enough evidence that he was different, his play on the court did the trick. James would go on to win two more consecutive MVPs as a member of the Heat. Most importantly, he led the franchise to back-to-back championships in 2012 and 2013.<\/p>\n LeBron would only play in Miami for four seasons, but accomplished what very few can do in their entire career. Cole\u2019s story is just one of the testaments to James\u2019 true greatness.<\/p>\n The post LeBron James Humbled Dwyane Wade in Practice Just to Prove a Point<\/a> appeared first on The SportsRush<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The early 2010s Miami Heat was easily one of the most talented teams in NBA history. It was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,2604,4166,185,150,189,6,16225],"class_list":["post-605098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-chris-bosh","tag-dwayne-wade","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-norris-cole"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116076502407140714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}