Just an ordinary basketball player , Wade s father doesn t think he can make it to NBA

According to an article written by US sports media F/W analyst Gautam Warrier. It took Dwyane Wade Sr. a long time to start believing his son would make it to the NBA.

Wade has become one of the greatest NBA players of all time, but his father didn't think he would amount to much growing up. Dwyane Wade Sr. appeared on The Timeout and was asked when he realized his son would be good at basketball. "It took me a long time to recognize him as a basketball player," Wade Sr. said. "So, it could have happened like when he went to Marquette. It didn't happen before that. I mean, that was the one time before that. He was down in form or something in his AAU, and he came off the bench and they won a championship because he got them there."

"So, that was probably the opener, the eye-opener," Wade Sr. continued. "Before this, I mean, he was just a regular basketball player. He wasn't so... he was okay." Wade admitted he wasn't very good at basketball when he was younger, but thinks he was already "playing basketball" by the time he entered Harold Richards High School. Wade Sr. said that was indeed when he played in that AAU tournament, but despite seeing those flashes, he still didn't think his son would make it to the NBA.

"That's the truth," Wade Sr. said. "Everyone was talking about, 'Oh, when I saw him at Marquette, I knew he was going to NBA. 'But, when he was at Marquette, I didn't even know that until the Final Four. Like, that's really when you could see it, because you didn't really see it much, so, you didn't see it. And then when he got to the Final Four and put up the numbers that he did, you're like, 'Well, yeah, he's probably ready,'" Wade Sr. added. "So, but no, I couldn't see it before that."

The old Wade revealed that Wade jumped too high at the beginning and his athletic ability was not that strong. It wasn’t until later that he became the athletic freak we see in the NBA. Wade really began to make a name for himself when he led Marquette to the Final Four in 2003. Of course, the highlight of that magical game was the 29-point victory over No. 1 seed Kentucky, 69-83, in the Elite Eight. Marquette would lose to Kansas in the next round, but Wade's potential had risen significantly by then. He averaged 21.8 points, 6.6 rebounds, 6.0 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.6 blocks in the tournament, and the Miami Heat would select him with the fifth overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft.

Wade won three championships, a Finals MVP and a scoring title during his 16-year NBA career. He was also a 13-time All-Star, eight-time All-NBA selection, and three-time All-Defensive team selection. We rank Wade as the third-greatest shooting guard of all time, with only Jordan and Kobe Bryant ahead of him. Wade was subsequently named to the NBA's 75th Anniversary Team in 2021 before being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2023.