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  • >>Male presenter: Thank you, welcome to Google in New York.

  • [applause and cheering]

  • Please welcome Dwyane Wade.

  • [applause and cheering]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: How ya doin'?

  • >>presenter: Have a seat, yeah.

  • [applause]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: How y'all doin'? How y'all doin'?

  • >>voices in audience: Good, good.

  • >>presenter: And welcome to Google.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Thank you.

  • >>presenter: You've never been here before, right?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: No, I've never been here before only been on the website.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: Cool, cool.

  • [laughter]

  • Now we're really, we're really excited to have you here today. There's a lotta big fans.

  • I myself I grew up on South Florida so I was like an original Heat fan, like Rony Seikaly,

  • [cheering]

  • Glen Rice, all that stuff.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: How many people here are from Miami?

  • [cheering]

  • >>people in audience: Yeah, yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Alright represented, we've got a few.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: But so I read, you have a new book out this week and this is part of the

  • Authors@Google series and the memoir is called A Father First and I thought we could talk

  • a little about that today and your experience and some of the stuff you discuss in that

  • book.

  • And I think, like many people in this room, I and a lot of us knew you as the NBA final,

  • the two time NBA champion, the NBA Finals MVP, and the guy who took Marquette the Final

  • Four and all that, but I think --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I'm still that person.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • [laughter]

  • I think that story which you definitely tell in the book is sort of almost secondary to

  • this other sort of set of tales about you. This kid who grew up in a tough life in a

  • rough part of Chicago and who learned to be, learned he was going to be a father at 19

  • and I think that, that, do you feel like that's true that, that part of that story, the story

  • of the guy who had to learn how to make all these tough decisions very early and learn

  • how to be a father and all that is the primary story of the book?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Well, yeah, I think it would have been easy for me to write a book about

  • basketball but I also think y'all can Google it. [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: Nice, nice.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: That was so corny.

  • [laughter]

  • I didn't even think about that one it just came to me.

  • [laughter]

  • But no, I felt that if I was gonna go down this path I wanted to write something that

  • I felt was meaningful and I felt that can help others in a sense. So I talked a lot

  • about my childhood, I talked a lot about my upbringin'.

  • And I do a lot of foundation work so I know kind of the same struggle that's goin' on

  • in the inner city, kinda the same way I grew up. So I see kids everyday that's just like

  • I was and goin' through some of the same issues that I went through. So I took this opportunity

  • to kind of express that and talk about it because when kids see me and I come and talk

  • to them they see Dwyane Wade, the two time NBA champion and all these accolades, but

  • I don't think they necessarily understand that I was them and I remember being in that

  • same seat and I remember bein' told that I wasn't gonna be successful and I couldn't

  • do this and I couldn't do that.

  • So I thought I would take this time in this book and kinda share those personal experiences

  • through my life. And also the title of the book is A Father First and it's not necessarily

  • directed to just fathers, I wanted to really express to families that's gonna through the

  • same issues that I went through whether it's a divorce, or whether it's the battle between

  • the custody from the kids, and kinda just share my experiences the negative and a positive

  • of it and hopefully it can help someone look at things in a different way or it can help

  • them in some facets of their life so hopefully I accomplished that. Oh a little basketball's

  • in there, too.

  • >>presenter: Yeah, yeah, definitely.

  • So why did you decide, I mean the book opens with you getting full custody of Zion and

  • Zaire --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: and so why did you decide that you wanted to get this out there?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: It just, I really don't know. I've never really thought that I was gonna

  • write a book, I never thought I'd be an author before I always looked at it as hard work,

  • which it is --

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: but I just felt that I go through everything in life for a reason. It's some

  • reason I went through this process for many, many years and still going through it today.

  • And I just know that a lotta guys especially in my league, in the NBA, that come up to

  • me had a lotta questions, gave 'em hope in a sense.

  • Before I got custody, I got appointed to the Fatherhood Initiative from our President himself

  • and to be seen in that field as bein' someone who can speak for fathers in a sense I just

  • thought it was my duty and my job and obligation to kind of share those experiences with others

  • hopefully, like I said hopefully it can help them, hopefully it can give them a different

  • perspective --

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: on how to handle somethin' because when I was goin' through this custody

  • battle, it was kinda like shootin' in the dark. You didn't know what was gonna happen

  • and where the ball's gonna end up. So hopefully if anybody's gonna through the process they

  • can kinda see, "Well, you know what this is how D. Wade said he dealt with it, this is

  • what he went through," and they can see this is how hard it's supposed to be, this is as

  • hard as it's gonna be, just so many different things so.

  • >>presenter: Yeah. You describe yourself as an introverted guy in the book but there are

  • some very personal things that you share in there. Were there parts of it that were difficult

  • for you to sort of explain or put out there and share with the world?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I mean anytime you're talkin' about your personal life in a sense

  • is always difficult. I've had to live my life under the microscope in a sense and it's very

  • public so a lot of things I didn't want to get out got out and I would love to deal with

  • a lot of things behind closed doors but it's not the hand I was dealt. But I kept a lot

  • out.

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I like to tell people that what you read in here is a little mild version

  • of my life -- [chuckles]

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: especially the divorce and the custody battle --

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: it was hectic but, and at the same time it was public so --

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: you can go find out that kind of information. I didn't wanna really get

  • too much into it in the book.

  • >>presenter: I mean there's also some very emotional stuff from when you were a kid growin'

  • up and some of the experiences with your family and the relationships that you had with them.

  • Do you think it was easier telling some of the stories especially about your mom and

  • stuff because it was also sort of a lessons learned tale that you were telling?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, not easy but the lesson learned tale made me really feel comfortable

  • tellin' it, but it's still not easy today. We was on The View the other day, my mom and

  • my sister came, and we had a segment and my mom was talkin', I put my head down in there

  • 'cause I almost lost it, I almost went in tears. And it's kinda sometimes like I'm lookin'

  • at someone else's life when I hear about it or when I think about it it's kind of like

  • that's not my life, that wasn't me. But it was me. So some of those emotions, some of

  • those memories come back in a sense so writin' this book was like my therapy, it was kind

  • of therapeutic --

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: in a sense. So it's like bein' in a dark room and talkin' to my writer about

  • my life. And I remember so much, like it started coming back and I remember things like it

  • was yesterday as well so it was very, very therapeutic.

  • >>presenter: Yeah. The subtitle of the book is How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball

  • and that came from something that your mother used to say to you.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, she's always, she know I loved basketball, she know I wanted to be

  • a basketball player but she didn't want that to be my only dream. But she always told me,

  • "Son, you life," she still tell me this day, "Your life is bigger than basketball, your

  • life is bigger than basketball." I never understood it then 'cause when you're a kid you're like,

  • "No, I'm gonna play basketball." And that's --

  • [laughter]

  • that's what I would do. But I lied I was like, "Yeah, mom I wanna be a doctor --

  • [laughter]

  • is that good?" But I didn't wanna be a doctor.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: [chuckles]

  • >>presenter: One of the things you talk about in there is with your two sons and your nephew

  • is man time and man talks right

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: where you have like these serious conversations about important things with

  • them.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: And how important is that in your relationship with them?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Well it's very important to give them their time together and apart. Like

  • I said I had to learn this stuff too, takin' parenting classes, my kids are in therapy

  • as well, going and sit down with them in therapy sessions and tryin' to learn about them not

  • thinkin' that just because I was a kid once and now I'm an adult, I have all the answers.

  • So I understand that man time for them is very important because they want it every

  • day. "Like I gotta go to a game. You all want man time now?" So they want it all the time

  • but it's good that they like to hang with me that way and it's not always just fun sometimes

  • we sit across from each other, and one day it was rainin' so it was like okay we couldn't

  • go out so I put like a table in my room with chairs all around it, had everybody name on

  • the chair, had questions for everybody written down on note cards that we asked each other.

  • And I was sittin' there and it was like real life questions and I want them to know they

  • can, I'm an open book they can come to me about anything and I want them to feel comfortable

  • about comin' to me about stuff but I also ask them questions, the tough questions and

  • I wanna be able to answer it for 'em. So that's one thing that consists of man time, it consists

  • of obviously doin' fun things.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: My kids are they're simple in a sense like my youngest son if I put him

  • in the car on the expressway and drop the top and we rollin', he great, that's amazing.

  • [laughter]

  • He like, "Faster, faster."

  • [laughter]

  • I'm like, "I don't wanna get pulled over but," --

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: but, so I got to drop the top to make it seem like we goin' real fast and

  • he's like lovin' it. So it's like certain things is just to me when we spend time together

  • and no one else is involved in that moment.

  • >>presenter: Yeah. Are there things that you feel like you haven't been ready to explain

  • to them yet that they've kind of come to you with the man talks?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Not really, I mean, like I said I'm pretty honest with 'em. I think it's

  • things that they not ready to ask me yet.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Most anything I don't think they still tryin' to make sure they get as

  • comfortable as possible to be able to open up in a sense. They still a little guarded

  • on certain things. It's tough for them, they goin' through things that I've never been

  • through so I tell my oldest son, "You know what I don't know what you goin' through.

  • I've never been the son of a quote unquote celebrity basketball player and all the stuff

  • that he go through. If I have a bad game he gonna hear about it in school. The kids gonna

  • talk about his dad. So I don't know how to --

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: When I grew up everybody Dad sucked, it was --

  • [laughter]

  • it was [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • it was the way of the world. [chuckles]

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: and so it's a lot different [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • different now. But so it's tough, it's tough man, he deals with a lot of emotions that

  • I've never had to deal with and that I don't really understand and I'm tryin' to teach

  • him how to handle things in a certain way, so.

  • >>presenter: Do you ever worry about that they'll have a strange perspective on the

  • world that's, because, I mean their life is so different than yours was when you were

  • that age and there is a difference between being the son of a famous person. Do you ever

  • worry about that perspective?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I worry about it a lot. Everybody so much when you're young and you

  • get older you start thinkin' about your family, you wanna give your family everything you

  • didn't have and so I worry about givin' 'em too much, they might not have the work ethic

  • that they need to be successful. I mean, they not gonna live off my money 'cause I'm gonna

  • retire and live off my money --

  • [laughter]

  • so I think about all these things. It's not necessary, it's not easy and everyone in the

  • world thinks that, "Well, I know it might not be easy but just give me that money and

  • I'll make it work." That big and small, more money, more problem stuff --

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: that, it makes it a little harder. I think my parents, I think it was

  • very simple to be my parents. We don't have anything so you don't get anything.

  • [laughter]

  • Sounds simple enough to me.

  • [laughter]

  • [chuckles] And I understood that. But it's tough but, like I said, I'm still learnin'

  • and only thing I can hope is that I always say I'm raisin' future leaders. My son is

  • 10, my oldest son is 10, Zaire, Zion is 5, and my nephew Dahveon who lives with us as

  • well he's turnin' 11 next week, so I'm raisin' these future leaders of the world and I gotta

  • try to do my best job that I can to hopefully raise 'em to be better men than me.

  • >>presenter: Yeah. And Zaire likes to play basketball, right?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, it's just sickening.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: So you said in the book that you made this deal with him when he was nine

  • that he could play but he had to play for fun only --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: like he had to play because he wanted to be having fun.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah,.

  • >>presenter: Do you think that that's going, I mean in the book you talk about how you

  • like to play for fun but there are times when you're not, you're clearly not playing just

  • for the fun of it --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: you're fiercely competitive.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: Do you feel like you worry about that with him, like do you feel like that's

  • goin' well?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I got double, it's like I got double standards.

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I'm tellin' him just to play for fun and like leave the refs alone and

  • don't have an attitude out there and I know he's like, "Dad, I watch you play --

  • [laughter]

  • and like what are you talkin' about?"

  • [laughter]

  • So, but I do this, I told him I don't want no pressure, I don't want him to put pressure

  • on himself because it comes with bein' my son. So automatically everyone he plays basketball

  • with is, on one hand, they're gonna come after him. On the second hand, they expect him to

  • be this amazing player.

  • But if he wants to play this sport I want him to play it because he enjoy playin' it,

  • he havin' fun. I mean, he's in fifth grade now, I mean, you're not workin', you're not

  • makin' no money off this --

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: so why stress yourself.

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • So I mean I'm payin' all the bills I ain't get no help.

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: So I just try to tell him that. He had an episode one time where he, and this

  • was the moment where I became that dad. I always thought I was gonna be the cool dad

  • and sit in the crowd with my head low and sit in the back. And then this moment I became

  • that father 'cause he was out there, man, and everything he was havin' an emotion day.

  • It was a girl that he likes, she was a cheerleader at the game, so first game cheerleadin' so

  • he was, he didn't know how to act.

  • [laughter]

  • [chuckles] His little brother, Zion, had kicked him the groin so his groin was hurtin' from

  • the night before --

  • [laughter]

  • my dad, everybody was at the game, my dad, the whole family was there so that's another

  • emotion. So he out there, every time a call is called he runnin' to the ref. The coach

  • say somethin' to him he talkin' back and he's just not playin' so I stand up in the middle

  • of the game: "Zaire!" I never thought I'd be that dad.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I calmed myself but then I went to talk to him at half time, "Hey, you

  • wanna got get in the car? You wanna go? 'Cause you not doin' what we say you're gonna do.

  • Second half he came out he was back to his dancin' ways and --

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: and playin' --

  • [laughter]

  • doin' all those things.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: When --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: [chuckles]

  • >>presenter: when you were in school you talk about your sister used to push you academically

  • and I know that Coach Crean pushed you to finish strong in school even though you left

  • early. But do you ever talk to your kids about how you didn't finish, how you decided to

  • go pro early? And what is your perspective on the whole going pro early I mean is it

  • purely an economic decision or?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I haven't, I haven't really gotten to that conversation with them yet

  • about me leavin' early. For me, the decision, I think everyone has a different reason why.

  • Some people are just, they're so good, they're so ready. It's time for them to go to the

  • next level.

  • For me, I felt that I was ready to go but, and then, I talk about this a lot. Financially,

  • I was strugglin'. At the time I married, I was 20, 21, 20 years old, married with a child

  • that ate a lot and --

  • [laughter]

  • needed a lot --

  • [laughter]

  • and I was makin' $220 a month. It was rough. And so it came to the point where I was like,

  • "I love college basketball, I would love to get my degree right now, but I have to do

  • what's best for my family and these stomach rumblins', it's not workin'." So I had to

  • take my, I had to go to the next level and take a chance. So everyone has their own journey

  • and their own path to the reasons why they have to do that.

  • >>presenter: Um-hum. Professional athletes have this, have a pretty bad stigma when it

  • comes to being fathers and fatherhood and you talk about, that's one of the things you

  • mention in there. Do you think that that portrayal is fair broadly?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I think, I think it's fair in a sense the one's that they focus on. I

  • think just as much negative, just as much as we focus on negative just as much positive.

  • So I don't think it's just professional athletes. I mean, my dad was a professional athlete

  • and he wasn't around for the first eight or nine years of my life then he eventually became

  • a part of it.

  • So a lot of fathers out here, it's no secret about it, that for whatever reason they have

  • left not even the home but they left their responsibilities. But professional athletes

  • anything we do is gonna get a little bit more and rightfully so.

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: So I think it's a lot of great fathers as well and I think that's one of

  • the reasons that I wrote this book as well to kind of shed light on those positive fathers

  • out there. Goin' through this process I get it, I get situations why certain dads are

  • not in the house, let me just say that now. It wasn't me, I wasn't gonna stop fightin'

  • but it's not easy from a situation that I dealt with where really tryin' to push me

  • out and really tryin' to make it impossible for me to become a father to my kids. So I

  • understand certain fathers to move on, but I don't accept it, I'm not sayin' that's what

  • you should do, but I get it.

  • >>presenter: Um-hum. There's a funny anecdote in there about your kids are out playin' basketball

  • and they're callin' each other Lebron, right?

  • [laughter]

  • And you were kind of like --

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: It's crazy. No matter what you do --

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: no matter what you do somebody [chuckles] yeah, they, I mean they like me

  • they --

  • [laughter]

  • I'm one of their top players --

  • [laughter]

  • but it's, they got they favorite players --

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: and everyone does. [chuckles]

  • >>presenter: But do they like know, is the team a part of your life with the kids.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, yeah, they yeah. All of our, we have a family atmosphere in Miami

  • so all of our kids are friends of each other's and they play. Like, if anybody ever really

  • like focused, if they did a reality show a day on the kids of the Miami Heat players,

  • they would see that they only watch the first half of the game, they never around for the

  • second half of the game because they be upstairs on the basketball court playing they own game.

  • [laughter]

  • Me and my kids have to make a deal like, "You gotta watch at least two quarters."

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: So they are very close, they are very close to everyone on the team. Kids

  • love guys that can fly and can do amazing things in the air. So Lebron James is that

  • guy that does all those amazing things, so he's a favorite. But now he's gettin' pushed

  • over a little bit 'cause KD is now become the favorite in my house. So we got to the

  • finals and I'm like, "So who you rooting for?"

  • [laughter]

  • >>[laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: [chuckles] They's like, "Dad it's gonna be tough."

  • [laughter]

  • It's crazy.

  • >>presenter: Because you guys are, you say in there that you guys are pretty close right

  • now on the team, there's a family atmosphere, like you said, down there, do you feel like

  • this championship was any different from the last one?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: It is different, obviously it's a different --

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: total different team --

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: from the standpoint of what we've dealt with. When Shaq came to Miami,

  • it was a love fest

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: everybody loves Shaq and the Miami Heat and that team and we was able to

  • win the championship. That was my third year in the league and I was like still young and

  • just excited and felt on top of the world and untouchable and then reality set in. [chuckles]

  • And then, now winnin' this one. It took me six years from then to win another championship

  • and I've just been through so much in my own personal life.

  • And a lot of guys on the team, besides me and Udonis who won in '06, no one else has

  • won a championship that we had on our team so we had a lot of guys that really was humbled

  • by this game.

  • And so this one meant a lot more for me because of everything I've been through. When you

  • go through, I had three surgeries in between the time where I had shoulder surgery that

  • took me out for awhile, actually two knee surgeries or whatever, and divorce, custody,

  • lawsuits, everything I've dealt with since these six years' span and to finally win it

  • it was kinda like just thank God that I've stuck with it and that I believed in my ability,

  • I believed in me but I continue to work because I was written off so many times since then

  • and just kept fightin'.

  • >>presenter: Um-hum. So since you are at Google, I thought we'd talk a little bit about technology

  • and the Web. You're one of the 50 most followed profiles on Google+ right now, I think you

  • have two million followers or somethin' and you have millions of fans that follow you

  • on other social networks: Facebook, Twitter. How do you follow, how do you use your social

  • media? What's the role that it plays for you right now?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Well, I use it so many different ways. I mean social media's a good thing and

  • a bad thing 'cause you really have no private life.

  • [laughter]

  • But I think it's a good thing first of all 'cause you really get to connect one on one

  • you get to connect. Me and you can connect just on Twitter and you can really feel like

  • you know him and I know you, we might not never meet. How you doin'?

  • [laughter]

  • But I think I use it in so many different ways to express myself from a standpoint of

  • people really getting' to know who I am. And obviously I talk about a lot of things that

  • I'm gettin' involved in and I'm doin' whether it's Foundation, whether it's me showin' up

  • to a book signin' somewhere, me endorsin' a product and wantin' people to try it out

  • and do these things. I do so much but I talk about my kids a lot, you see I have fun on

  • there, with my fans I try to have fun on there as much as possible. I mean I get talked about

  • a lot on Twitter so --

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: it's not easy to read all the comments but I try to make light of it. Someone

  • say somethin' negative I say, "You need a hug?"

  • [laughter]

  • "It's not my fault you're angry."

  • [laughter]

  • So, but I enjoy it, I'm amazed that that many people will follow me and wanna know anything

  • about me. I've never thought that someday roughly all these millions of people gonna

  • wanna know that my life is that interesting, I don't think it is, but I guess somebody

  • does.

  • >>presenter: Yeah. When you, I mean, a lot of this stuff is pretty recent, when you started

  • in the league this stuff didn't exist

  • >>Dwyane Wade: No.

  • >>presenter: So I'm curious to get your perspective on has all this stuff changed the sort of

  • public life of a star professional athlete?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: No question it has. I mean this is a different time for professional

  • athletes. It's like I said some symbolism, everyone know where you at at all, well not,

  • it's not always accurate because I've been in Miami and somebody Twitted all the pictures,

  • "Ah I just seen D. Wade." It was the back of somebody's head it was back in Tennessee

  • somewhere. I'm like, "I'm not out there."

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: But for the majority of the time most people know where you at.

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: You can walk by and say, "Oh I just seen D. Wade at walkin' into, walkin'

  • down the street with his young, what color's that, is that teal? Is that teal? Walkin'

  • down the street with this lady with curly hair with a teal shirt and took a picture

  • of us backing in lookin' like we goin' into a hotel but we're really comin' to Google.

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: It's [chuckles] --

  • [laughter]

  • [chuckles] That's the way the world is so --

  • [laughter]

  • it's the privacy is really, you really have no privacy at all.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: And so.

  • >>presenter: Well, so there's the privacy aspect right and then there's the other aspect

  • right which is you have this instant communication platform to every fan, journalists, whoever.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: So you have these younger guys who are comin' like you that are pretty young

  • when they're comin' into the league and now they have, they can just talk to a million

  • people by --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: the push of a button. Do the more veteran guys see that as liability or

  • like a concern for the team dynamic?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: It could be dependin' on the young guy comin' in.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: You had a, if anybody had, if Michael Beasley, Mario Chalmers and those

  • guys when they was rookies when they came in together, if social media was big then

  • oh, we would have been in trouble.

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Those rookies right there was terrible.

  • [laughter]

  • We would have been in trouble. So I guess it just depends on the rookies that come in

  • if they mature or not so, yeah.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: They's bad.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: So I mean this is going to be a central part of your kids' lives as they

  • get older but do you worry about them getting exposed? You talked a little bit about them

  • getting hassled in class right but like if they set up a Twitter account or something

  • like and they're young do you worry about them getting exposed in this sort of social

  • media world to all kinds of stuff that you wouldn't be comfortable with?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I mean I can't imagine bein' a kid and growin' up in this time. The

  • world is so different from obviously when even when I was growin' up and I couldn't

  • imagine. Only thing I could try to do is continue to tell 'em right from wrong and hopefully

  • they continue to abide by the rules and things that I'm tellin' 'em what's right. And I know

  • there's gonna be times come up when they gonna do things that I'm not gonna approve of and

  • hopefully they learn from their mistake that they're making and they continue to grow from

  • it. My kids haven't asked me yet for a Twitter handle yet, they haven't asked me for to be

  • on Facebook and stuff yet so and they only 10 so hopefully I can hold out a little longer.

  • If I had a conversation it's gonna be quick it's gonna be like, "No."

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: It's gonna be very quick.

  • [laughter]

  • But I don't really wanna have that conversation right now so they haven't asked for it yet

  • so we still in the phone and BBMin' and all that stuff, they still cook with that so I

  • don't wanna go through somethin' and see a Z. Wade Twitter handle and Zaire takin' a

  • picture in his own bedroom.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: They gonna do stuff like that, like they gonna try to be sneaky but it's

  • gonna be a picture of them in they bathroom as you might--

  • [laughter]

  • that's in the house, I know that's your page. [chuckles]

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: No one else has been in here so --

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • You mention that your kids watch YouTube all the time and you call Zaire the king of all

  • media in the book.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: I know you have a channel on YouTube also. Do you have any favorite videos

  • or channels that you watch?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: You know what, like I said Zaire is, he's the king of watchin' YouTube,

  • him and my nephew watch YouTube, Zaire really he gets up early just to watch YouTube before

  • he goes to school.

  • [laughter]

  • It's a problem like --

  • [laughter]

  • it's seriously a problem. I think it still be dark outside, like early in the sixes and

  • he gets up and he dresses real fast, he might forget to brush his teeth, brush his hair,

  • but he's gonna get on YouTube --

  • [laughter]

  • and he's gonna watch videos, he gonna watch all this stuff and it excites him. Me, I mean,

  • I don't know I go as the wind blow, sometime I'm on it often and sometime I'm not on it

  • at all so I'm late on a lot of things.

  • >>presenter: Yeah. In the book you talk about how when you were growin' up some of your

  • new school clothes were clothes that had been left at the local Laundromat right that's

  • what used to --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I used to get some nice things out of the Laundromat.

  • [laughter]

  • That's nice.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: Now you've been named the NBA's best dressed player and somebody told me that

  • you're good friends with Anna Wintour and --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Oh, Anna.

  • >>presenter: and first of all, what?

  • [laughter]

  • But also --

  • [laughter]

  • do you ever think about,"How did I get from from A to B on that?"

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I have no idea how --

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: how that happened. I got a great team around me that's all, they push

  • me, they made Anna be friends with me, I think.

  • [laughter] No it's been cool. I think as a kid I've always

  • loved the thought of dressin' up. I wasn't able to do it my whole life but I used to

  • say I used to see my dad, my dad used to work and he delivered pretty much delivered boxes,

  • he might have had a sexy title for it but the man delivered boxes to other companies,

  • that's what he did.

  • But he used to dress up on every Friday. I used to have to get up and iron his clothes

  • so I know he used to dress up every Friday. And I used to see that and I used to be like,

  • "Well, one day when I got to work this is how I wanna go to work." So my thought of

  • dressin' up came from that and then just goin' through life and now you startin' to feel

  • who you are and see what you like and I got into a great situation with my stylist where

  • she kind of like pushed me out of my comfort zone in a sense. I still get flak, and my

  • sister not here but she always give me flak about what I'm wearin' cause she like we wear

  • the same stuff like --

  • [laughter]

  • like, "Your pants are red, I got the same pants on."

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: So like but like she's pushed me and now I'm just comfortable. If anybody

  • seen me on Letterman the other night I had on this bright yellow jacket, it was like

  • the seat covers right there and I wasn't comfortable in it but she was like, "Come on you're gonna

  • look good. I mean you gotta put it on." And I was like, "Forget it." And I walked out

  • there with as much confidence as possible and hopefully I didn't get murdered for wearin'

  • the yellow jacket. But it actually didn't look too bad once I kept watchin' it.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: My business manager she told me she couldn't hear the first half of the

  • interview because of my jacket was so loud.

  • [laughter]

  • But it worked and when I walked out David was like, "Is that yellow?" I was like, "Yes."

  • [chuckles]

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: So I enjoy it and havin' the opportunity. Last night I went out to Fashion

  • Night Out and last year was my first year here and I couldn't believe how many people

  • was so excited about Fashion Night Out and it was like a big concert goin' on, it was

  • like everything in one, it was like everything like so many people on the street you can't

  • drive nowhere. So last night really bein' a part of goin' to the Calvin Klein and bein'

  • a part of the Calvin Klein Collection and sittin' next to Anna Wintour signin' my book

  • and signin' the Vogue Magazine was kind of like a cool moment. I just think about how

  • far I came to be here so fast so like I said, I mean, we must have somethin' on Anna, I

  • don't know what it is --

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: but it's good to have a great relationship with someone who's a legend and

  • respected so much the way she is.

  • >>presenter: Yeah, yeah, definitely.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: She's nice to me, I don't know about everybody else.

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I seen September, too, and I was like, "What, I don't know about this

  • one." But now she's very nice to me so.

  • >>presenter: That's cool.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Thought I'd add that.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: [laughs]

  • >>presenter: Let's talk about, I have just a couple last questions here and then we'll

  • open it up to everybody here about the future for you. So where do you picture yourself

  • right now in 10 years?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Well, I won't be playin' hopefully. I'll be 40 so hopefully I'll be retired. And

  • hopefully that all the opportunities that are being created now, there's so many doors

  • that I'm so blessed to be able to walk through hopefully I'll continue to find my niche of

  • what I wanna do next.

  • Like I said I got so many, I got too many things that I'm tryin' to do right now. But

  • I think this is the right time for me to figure out what's next for Dwyane Wade even though

  • I still wanna play at least another seven years. I think that'd be good in an ideal,

  • perfect world and then after that I can start stalking my kids.

  • [laughter]

  • I told Zaire I was like, cause I always tell him, "Y'all gettin' out of my house one day."

  • I be like, "Eight years, you outta here son." But so then I told him I said, "Once you go

  • to college I'm gonna buy an apartment right by your dorm room."

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: "I'm gonna [chuckles] I'm gonna live through you."

  • [laughter]

  • So I'll just hopefully move into the next phase of my life and --

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: do somethin' that I again enjoy doin' and but also spend a lot of time with

  • my kids. Zion at the time will be, like, if I retire when I want to will be like 12 years

  • old --

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: really gettin' into the meat of his goin' to high school soon so it'll

  • be kinda cool.

  • >>presenter: Yeah. You mentioned in there that Shaq was one of the people who really

  • introduced you to the world of like being --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Silly.

  • >>presenter: young, like, but yeah, yeah, but also being a brand or like being a personality

  • beyond --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: the game.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>presenter: Like to you feel like that has started you on that trajectory to get ready

  • for some post-game stuff, too?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, it was great havin' Shaq at the time when I did. It kind of helped

  • me come out of my shell. We would have not been able to do this interview years ago,

  • no way possible. I'd have been lookin' at that clock nervous, sweatin' like, "I got

  • an hour?"

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: It's no way I'd of been able to sit up here. But so kind of bein' around

  • him kind of helped open me up a little bit. He came along, he coined me Flash at the time

  • and kinda gave me a different person to be. So I really fed into it, like I really was

  • Flash on the basketball court, like don't call me Dwyane. I am Flash.

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: That's weird.

  • [laughter]

  • But so it really was big and I think it just opened me up to people to really see who I

  • am and me to see who I am in a sense and not be the introvert kid that I was when I was

  • young.

  • >>presenter: Yeah. Again goin' to the 10 year, 15 year range like what is the thing that

  • you most want for your kids when they get to that age? Like what is the thing that you

  • wanna make sure is just right with them?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Well, I mean to me obviously I think I want them to have an unbelievable

  • education, I want them to kind of have their vision and their dreams of who they think

  • they wanna become. I'm a big believer in dream big and vision boards and all that, I'm a

  • big believer in that. It's puttin' down what you wanna be, who you wanna be and it's no

  • problem with workin' towards that. And if somethin' steer you in a different direction

  • then you take that road, but you need to have a vision. So hopefully around that time they,

  • I'm payin' a lot for their education, seriously it's like college, like college fund and my

  • son's five years old, it's like it's a lot of money. So it better work out.

  • >>presenter: Yeah.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: So but hopefully on my end it's just make sure that I take care of my

  • responsibility, my job, to make sure that they don't have the concern, if they can't

  • right away find out what they wanna do or find a niche that they have enough security

  • --

  • >>presenter: Um-hum.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: to fall back on.

  • >>presenter: Yeah. Alright cool, so let's open it up, there's two microphones, I think,

  • so for questions just line up and we'll just alternate back and forth.

  • [pause]

  • You're first [ indistinct ], you wanna go for it?

  • >>male #1: Hey D. Wade, a big fan. So like you're like the father of style in the NBA

  • and you actually pull it off. What are your thoughts on like Russell Westbook and Kevin

  • Durant showing up --

  • [laughter]

  • like clowns?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Thank you, I appreciate that. So what's you're sayin', they don't pull it

  • off?

  • [laughter]

  • >>male #1: Have you seen [unintelligible]?

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I am not the one to judge.

  • [laughter]

  • But it's not for me, I couldn't do it but he's what he's got and he's getting everyone's

  • attention. I get a question about Russell Westbrook fashion every time I'm do somethin'

  • about fashion. So he's doin' his job of gettin' out there, so it works. But I don't think

  • you would look good in it --

  • [laughter]

  • and [chuckles] and I don't think I would look good in it.

  • [laughter]

  • So [chuckles]

  • >>female #1: Hey there.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: How ya doin'?

  • >>female #1: Sara, huge fan as well from Miami. I grew up down there and I'd just love to

  • get your perspective on what it's been like raising your sons in Miami. People always

  • ask me, I've been in New York for five years now, "Are you ever gonna move back down?"

  • It's always something I've considered but I'd love to hear what you think.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Are you gonna move back down?

  • >>female #1: Maybe, maybe.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I just thought I outta add to the people.

  • >>female #1: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: 'Cause when you retell the story you be like, "Yeah D. Wade be askin'

  • me if I'm gonna move back down."

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: "People are always askin' me."

  • [laughter]

  • I do that all the time, I name drop.

  • [laughter]

  • [chuckles] I think my kids rather enjoy livin' in Miami. I mean you think about obviously

  • everyone knows that it's the Sunshine State so they enjoy the ability to be able to go

  • out and do many different activities outside, they don't have to go through the winters,

  • those tough winters like in Chicago where they kinda grew up in a sense.

  • So I think they like it, I think they like how every day, I remember goin' through the

  • season where we won 15 games but no matter what when I woke up and looked outside and

  • went outside I was like, "Ah, it's not that bad." I think they like wakin' up to it's

  • not that bad kinda feeling 'cause when you're growin' up in Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit,

  • and all those places it's kinda like, "Man, it's another day?"

  • [laughter]

  • And you look out the window you like, "This sucks."

  • [laughter]

  • So I think [chuckles] I think they like wakin' up and and like, "Ah, let's go get it. Let's

  • go to school." It's cool.

  • >>presenter: Nice.

  • >>female #1: Thanks.

  • >>presenter: Okay.

  • >>male #2: Hey, I'm Aaron. If you're the most stylish guy on the team who's the least stylish

  • guy?

  • [laughter]

  • [pause]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Let me think, let me think. Do, do, do, do, do, do do. Oh Joe Anthony.

  • [laughter]

  • He's terrible, he's terrible, he's terrible.

  • [laughter]

  • There's no help for him either so.

  • [laughter]

  • 'Cause he's cheap, 'cause he's cheap, he's not gonna spend no money so --

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah and we got, so Joel Anthony and James Jones. James Jones is, he [chuckles]

  • is, I love him he's one of the best teammates I ever had, one of the funniest guys ever.

  • But if we go on a two week road trip you'd be lucky to get two pair of jeans outta him

  • --

  • [laughter]

  • and more than two polos. Like he keeps it simple as it get. He's gonna pack one pair

  • of shoes, he gonna pack two pairs of jeans, and two polos and that's gonna be two weeks.

  • [laughter]

  • It's like you didn't think you gonna go eat --

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: or, doesn't care.

  • [laughter]

  • >>male #2: You gonna help him out or no?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: No, he's not spendin' no money.

  • [laughter]

  • You gotta, it's an investment to dress nice, it's very expensive now days and J.J. like,

  • "For what?"

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • "I'm married with like five kids nobody wanna look at me." [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • So I love him, it's hilarious. So we gotta a couple guys who don't really get into the

  • dressin'. They like to see what we wear and that's about it.

  • >>male #2: Thanks.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Hopefully J.J. don't really hear me. You can't tell him what I said.

  • [laughter]

  • >>male #3: Hey, D. Wade, [ indistinct ]. So lots been said about Heat for the past two

  • seasons but you've been totally cool in media I mean is it just you're a good actor or you

  • just don't care about what media says?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, I don't. I'm not gonna say I don't care, I do care, I'm not immune

  • to it, but you can't really let it consume your life in whatever you decide to do. And

  • I get talked about obviously with my fashion, I get talked about when I don't perform the

  • right way, but no one can be as hard on me as I can be on myself.

  • So yes it's a part of the job and it's unfortunate that media does that but. Now I think one

  • thing that's great with social network is you can kinda control your own in a sense

  • and you can beat 'em to it, [chuckles] to beat 'em to the punch. So it's a part of it

  • and it's not meant for everybody to deal with it, to handle it so I think that we do a good

  • job of try and handle the best way possible.

  • >>male #3: Thank you.

  • >>presenter: Over here.

  • >>male #4: Hi. When a lot of us were growin' up our parents are always embarrassing us,

  • we're very embarrassed of 'em. So I was wondering, as a celebrity, do find that your kids are

  • embarrassed of you at times and of your friends, your friends' kids?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Good question. They haven't told me yet --

  • [laughter]

  • but I'm sure there been a few times I ain't performed right they've been like, "Man oh

  • --

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: I don't really wanna go to school,"

  • [laughter]

  • 'cause they gonna hear it. But I think it's gonna hurt me when the day comes that I'm

  • not the cool dad no more. It's kinda comin' soon 'cause they already tellin' me that so,

  • but they don't really mean it yet, I think so.

  • [laughter]

  • So, but yeah, it's a time where you kinda get away from, you grow out of it in a sense,

  • so it's gonna hurt me when I can't, I mean, now I like kissin' my kids on the forehead,

  • there's gonna become a time when they not gonna be havin' it no more.

  • [laughter]

  • And that's my boys, man, so it's gonna hurt. I'm gettin' emotional --

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • thinkin' about it.

  • >>male #5: So Ryan, I lived in Miami for 20 years and I was at game three in 2006 when

  • the Heat were down by 12 points and --

  • >>Dwyane Wade: 13, go ahead, go ahead.

  • >>male #5: 13, sorry, sorry.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • >>male #5: 13.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: That's fine.

  • >>male #5: Anyways and you took over the game and even from before that I was a big fan.

  • But my real question is more about fatherhood. So I have a five year old as well and I've

  • found that when I first became a father I had this concept that I was gonna be his teacher

  • and that I was gonna be the one teachin' him everything, but the more he gets older and

  • the more I get mature basically I've realized that he is more my teacher. So I was wonderin'

  • if you feel like the same way?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: You hit it right on the, you hit it right on the head. I talk about it

  • in my book, there's a passage in there where I talk about learnin' from my kids. I'm learnin'

  • how to be a father, I'm learnin' how to be a parent from them, they teach me every day.

  • And you guys see I like to make light of a lot of situations, but it's seriously I took

  • parenting classes, like I said I go to their therapy sessions, and it's times where situations

  • come up I have no idea how to handle it. But I'm learnin' from my kid, the personality

  • that he has, I'm learnin' from his history of how much trouble has he got in before,

  • so I'm learnin' from them how to handle these situations.

  • So I learn so much, just as much as they gonna learn from me, it's the same as I'm gonna

  • learn from them. And I always tell them when we together I'm like, "Hey, we learnin' on

  • the fly together." And that's just the way it is. There's no guidebook to tell you how

  • to be the perfect parent or perfect father or tell you exactly how to handle every situation

  • that comes up.

  • Sometimes you gotta go off your gut and we're gonna be wrong sometime and hopefully they

  • understand that and we gonna be right sometimes. So I'm glad to hear that you have that mentality

  • because that's exactly what I said in the book. But some parents don't have that mindset.

  • >>male #5: Yeah. Thanks.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Thank you.

  • >>male #6: So I was actually sitting here listening to you and I realized that we got

  • a lot in common, like we absolutely love our family, we love our children, and then I said

  • also we love basketball. Who's better, that's still debatable.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>male #6: But on a serious note, do you feel any pressure with bringing your children up

  • in, if they say they love basketball do you push 'em in that direction or do you try to

  • let them figure out what they wanna do?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: You know what I'm gonna come back to that other part.

  • [laughter]

  • I'm gonna answer your question first.

  • I'm just that person that just believe that whatever they wanna do I'm gonna support and

  • obviously they wanna play basketball, it's something that we can share together, but

  • it's nothin' that I would push them towards. When you tell me this is seriously what you

  • wanna do I will make sure that you have all resources you need to be able to do it. But

  • I'm all about somethin' else.

  • Like my youngest, Zion, he's played, he likes soccer. Even though he quit last year he's

  • back on the team this year. And I'm like, "Ooh cool." So now I'm tryin' to learn more

  • about soccer, I wanna get into soccer more. So they gonna be they own man and they gonna

  • have they own idea of what they wanna do, and I applaud that and I celebrate that and

  • I want them to be that.

  • Now back to --

  • [laughter]

  • back to the basketball thing. I love your confidence, that's all I'm sayin'.

  • >>presenter: [laughs]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Anybody watch Love & Hip Hop in here?

  • >>voice in audience: Oh yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Y'all watch that crazy show? Don't he kinda look like the guy that's on

  • --

  • [laughter]

  • is married to the rapper, the girl who raps, the good couple, the good couple?

  • >>voices in audience: Yeah, yeah.

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah, the good couple.

  • [laughter]

  • Kinda looks like him.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: [laughs] That could be him, that could be him.

  • [laughter]

  • Let's go over here.

  • >>male #7: Hey, D. Wade.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Did you say that was a good show? Man.

  • >>male #7: Hi, huge NBA fan here.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Thank you.

  • >>male #7: I was just wondering what do you think about the current era? Obviously like

  • when you guys came in 2003 that was an amazing year in terms of the talent in the draft,

  • but then there's been several other years where it was just incredible players.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Yeah.

  • >>male #6: Where do you think this current era is in terms of the history of the NBA,

  • is it like a golden era, the talent, the teams, the competition?

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Well I think that obviously I believe that 2003 was that year was a great

  • time for the NBA. I kinda felt like before that the NBA had a couple down seasons in

  • a sense and I felt that there was new energy for the league that it needed at the time.

  • And I just think now that we're continuing to get very good young players and you kinda

  • look at it and understand that our game is in great hands with all the young players

  • comin' up. So our game is as big as it's ever been. And even though the older players before

  • us will argue and it's always debatable of what era was the best era, I just think that

  • our era's the most important era to grow the game because we're doin' so much globally

  • to grow this game, so many kids really gettin' into, worldwide, really gettin' into the game

  • of basketball, it's so big everywhere. So I just think that we're doin' a great job

  • of continuing to try to grow it.

  • I mean David Stern and the NBA has done an unbelievable job of kinda changing the outlook

  • of how players was kinda viewed in a sense and they've done an unbelievable job of that.

  • So I'm glad that I'm in this era and not the other eras.

  • >>male #7: Since you're in New York tough question, Knicks or Nets who's gonna be better

  • this year.

  • [laughter]

  • >>presenter: [chuckles]

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: There's a tough question because no one knows how the Nets are gonna come together.

  • They put together a pretty decent team, they gonna be pretty good, and then with the excitement

  • in Brooklyn and everything they put together a good team. But you never know how long it

  • takes the continuity to take, to really work.

  • The Knicks kinda have some in a sense, they did lose Jeremy Lin but they still have a

  • lot of the core of their team. So because of that they might start a little faster than

  • the Nets, you just never know. So I'm sure it brings excitement to the City of New York

  • and as a fan of the game I will sit back and do the same thing you're doin' and watch and

  • see who would be the best in New York.

  • >>male #7: I think it's gonna be the Knicks.

  • [laughter]

  • [applause]

  • >>presenter: Alright, I think we have time for one more.

  • >>male #8: Hey, huge fan. I was just wondering you said your kids and a bunch of the kids

  • of your teammates play basketball all the time. Who's the best?

  • [laughter]

  • >>Dwyane Wade: Of all the kids?

  • >>male #8: Of all the kids on your team, yeah.

  • >>Dwyane Wade: You know that's a great question because if you ask each of them they would

  • all say themselves.

  • [laughter]

  • Yeah, so I don't get the luxury to be able to watch them play together. I think right

  • now a lot of it has to do with who's the oldest and who has the most height, so they ain't

  • reached the point they're all that talented yet. But they be havin', they be competin'

  • up there. There's been a couple, separate them a couple of times I heard.

  • [laughter]

  • They get real and so it's good, it's good and some of them play together like AAU Basketball,

  • some of them play together. I think Lebron's youngest son, Bronny, Lebron Jr., his older

  • son, he plays like he's seven, I think he plays like the 12 year olds or somethin'.

  • [laughter]

  • Like, but he try to humble him already. But he's gettin' that experience so they all are

  • gonna be in competition with each other for a long time to come. So it's gonna be interesting

  • to see how it all shakes out.

  • >>presenter: Cool. Alright, we'll wrap it up here Dwyane. Thanks very much for comin'.

  • [applause]

  • Dwyane Wade everybody.

  • [applause and cheering]

>>Male presenter: Thank you, welcome to Google in New York.

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