D-Wade is still a D-Bag - Dallas-Mavs.com Forums

MFFL · 08-05-2020, 02:22 PM

On the NBA TNT show He said “I don’t like saying a lot of good things about the Dallas franchise”

MFFL · 08-05-2020, 02:22 PM

Inside the NBA

DevinHarriswillstart · 08-05-2020, 02:34 PM

Because they called you out on your phantom free throws and embarrassed you after you joined Lebron and Bosh? Gosh, can't imagine why...

MFFL · 08-05-2020, 02:46 PM

Let’s not forget calling him out for fake coughing

mac222b · 08-05-2020, 03:01 PM

I watched the 4th quarter of the Portland game and was going to watch highlights of the day’s games and as soon as they said “D-Wade” I turned it off.. It sucks that Dirk has to enter the Hall with that classless cheating(peds/super team collusion/championship gifted by Stern and refs) phoney. The contrast between the two could not be more stark.

SMC0007 · 08-05-2020, 05:53 PM

But he was quick to ask his daddy Dirk to Jersey swap for his collection.

Thespiralgoeson · 08-05-2020, 07:08 PM

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I watched the 4th quarter of the Portland game and was going to watch highlights of the day’s games and as soon as they said “D-Wade” I turned it off.. It sucks that Dirk has to enter the Hall with that classless cheating(peds/super team collusion/championship gifted by Stern and refs) phoney. The contrast between the two could not be more stark.

I've said it in a different thread, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Wade is the closest thing Dirk ever had to a proper rival. They're both all-time greats- and yes, we can hate Wade all we want, but he is easily a top 30-40 player of all time- and they met in the finals twice. Their names are linked in NBA history forever. Even if we view Dirk as the hero and Wade as the villain (and I have no problem with that,) it seems totally appropriate that they would go into the HoF together.

mac222b · 08-05-2020, 09:02 PM

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I've said it in a different thread, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Wade is the closest thing Dirk ever had to a proper rival. They're both all-time greats- and yes, we can hate Wade all we want, but he is easily a top 30-40 player of all time- and they met in the finals twice. Their names are linked in NBA history forever. Even if we view Dirk as the hero and Wade as the villain (and I have no problem with that,) it seems totally appropriate that they would go into the HoF together.

I get that viewpoint. In some cosmic sense it’s certainly poetic. It’s just I’d rather that day be about Dirk and not all the Diva bullshit.

Murphy3 · 08-08-2020, 09:31 AM

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I've said it in a different thread, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Wade is the closest thing Dirk ever had to a proper rival. They're both all-time greats- and yes, we can hate Wade all we want, but he is easily a top 30-40 player of all time- and they met in the finals twice. Their names are linked in NBA history forever. Even if we view Dirk as the hero and Wade as the villain (and I have no problem with that,) it seems totally appropriate that they would go into the HoF together.

I’d say that Duncan would qualify as a rival.

Thespiralgoeson · 08-08-2020, 05:22 PM

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I’d say that Duncan would qualify as a rival.

I never thought of it as a rivalry. Mavs-Spurs was maybe a rivalry, but Duncan-Dirk never seemed to be much of a thing. Wade and Dirk though? There was very real (and very public) animosity between them.

Murphy3 · 08-17-2020, 03:15 PM

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I never thought of it as a rivalry. Mavs-Spurs was maybe a rivalry, but Duncan-Dirk never seemed to be much of a thing. Wade and Dirk though? There was very real (and very public) animosity between them.

TD and Dirk were definitely rivals...just not heated or hated rivals. Respectful rivals..