TEXT MESSAGE TALK SHOW
Players' Tribune
8.19.20
WITH DORELL WRIGHT
Gooooood Mornting!! It’s
ya boy Dwright!!! Back with another episode of
Text Message Talk Show!!
Today we have a Living Legend, 3time NBA Champ, Finals MVP, 1x Gold Medalist, 13-time NBA All Star, Wade County, Flash, Future HOF aka
Dwyane Tyrone Wade!!!
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not Tyrone Tho
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Whats up witcha Boooyyy
You know I had to drop the Tyrone in there my boy
DWade
What’s up witcha boiiiiiiiii
Man I gotta go get my middle name changed
What’s up witcha boiiiiiiiii
Naaa bro!! That's the perfect middle name.
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Mines is Lawrence
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Lawrence is the name your grandkids will call you.
Grandad Lawrence
Bro idk about being Grandpa Lawrence lol. Mia said she wants my grandkids to call
me Big Daddy
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I’m crying
not Big Daddy
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Lmaoo bro I’m off Big Daddy
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Man what you on?
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I’m chilling bro enjoying this SoCal sun!!!
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Bro why is this heat out here on my neck like Vegas heat
This me looking at my wife. Since she made me move to Cali
Listen Gab knew what was up. I’m sure when winter rolled thru it was all worth it haha
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Let’s kick off the show with a throwback. I like to ask all my guests, Who's your hometown favorite?
Well my hometown Favorite is Zeke!!! Isiah Thomas
DWade
But Mike Jordan is the reason I fell in love with the game
Zeke was so cold bro!!! You being from the Chi was blessed to see so many dope locals and MJ. That’s wild.
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Best of both worlds living in the Chi. Just like LA. I'm sure that's the reason both cities have the most NBA players. And umm LA being number onebeing from the Chi was blessed to see so many dope locals and MJ. That’s wild.
DWade
Bro LA is the new number 1 but Chi held it down for a long time!
But I gotta give it up to our brother QRich. When I was coming up Q was that dude. I can't lie I had a poster of him in my locker at school
Aaayyy shout out to my bro bro QRich. A real one. And a member of the #135
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135 ALL DAY!!!
I know being a dad to teens is fun, but do you relate and vibe to the music Z, Dada and Zaya listen to?
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Music??!?
man DWright I can’t relate.
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Listen when Devin is in the car and wants to take over
the aux. I’m like who is this bra.
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I don’t live the life that this new generation is talking about. So I definitely can’t relate. I vibe to their beats but man I be lost.
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Fasure us hahhaha
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Bro this all they do nowadays
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Man these tik tok kids be going crazy Hahahaha
My knees hurt watching them!!!
Okay who are you listening to now??
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I’m listening to my Big Bro “The Biggest”
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Man you can never go wrong wit Ross. A real legend. Wow!!
Did you catch him and 2Chains going at it??
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I stick to the music that inspires me bro. Jay, Drake, Ross…
Listen 2Chains has some bangers!!!!!
But Ross got a Catalog so deep. It’s only a few can mess with.
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Fasure us hahhaha
Bro stop playing. After hearin this. And ya in Greece. Whoooooa
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But I loved the show that Ross and Chainz put on. It was entertaining!
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Bangers. A lot of ppl didn’t know.
Bro how did being a young father motivate you?
DWade
Bro it gave me my real purpose. When I was younger I wanted to be successful for my Mom. You know, buy her that big house like every little boy. But having Zaire at 20 years old give me my WHY
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That’s so dope!!! And I 100% understand that feeling. By any means get to the bag!!!
DWade
My responsibility to show him what hard work looks like was my driving force. I wanted him to get a chance to experience life differently then I had. I didn't want him growing up with the same inner city challenges I had.
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Big facts Bruv
I think it’s dope how you’ve been showing your support for Zaya, and being a megaphone
for the trans community. What has been the most eye opening thing for you in learning about the community?
DWade
Thanks lil bro. First and foremost I’m just being a parent. It’s my job to help facilitate who and what my kids wanna do and be. It’s not my job to change them in any way. We are here to guide them and try to help them make as few mistakes as possible and find their way in the process
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I’m 100% with you bro!!! Doing your Job and doing a damn good job at it.
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The support that Zaya has gotten from her community has been nothing less than amazing. The biggest thing I’ve learned throughout is information and knowledge that I had no clue about. So I thank my daughter for helping my wife and I be more educated. Which leads to us being better allies!
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Shout out to Zaya! Keep being you and living life!!!!
DWade
My message to all the haters tho
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People ask me all the time why I picked you and QRich to be Devin’s godfather!!! Why!!! Two stand up guys and role models. Why wouldn’t I won’t my son to look up to you guys!!!!
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Dev!!!!!!!!
That’s right bro. Q is one of the best dudes I’ve ever met. My brother has been a real one from day 1!
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BTW it was an honor when you asked me to be Devin’s Godfather with QRich. Dev is good. He will never hurt for Nothing!!!!
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This guy is trying to make a tear come down.
Bro we’ve been knowing each other for a min now. It feels like Zaya has inspired you to be even more bold with your fashion statements, does she get the credit for that?
DWade
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Shout out to Cali. Becuz boy look at us. Lmaoooo
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Nah bro bro she gets no credit. I gotta give that to my stylist Calyann Barnett-Watson! She’s the mastermind behind this mess over here
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Bro I found myself saying no the other day
Don’t do it. I look at Dev crazy every time he says that.
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It’s the Zaire influence
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Bro ima drop a pic and you tell me how cold we thought we were.
The OG walker
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Not the walker suit
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We talk about this fit all the time and nobody knows what we’re talking about.
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Bro you couldn’t tell us s***
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Had the chain coming out that thang!!!
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I had 2 of every main color and rotated them joints over and over with the Donald Pliners tho
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Couldn’t tell us nothing
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Bro your line up was soooo low on your forehead
Omg I hope the youngsters don’t think we didn’t have swag Becuz we rocked the Donald Pliners
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Man I would of gave PG13
a run for his money about 15 years ago
Remember Sidekicks Are you the only NBA player to have had their own signature phone?
DWade
Yes sir!!!
That white and Gold edition was
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Had everyone on my bumper
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Lmaooo bro I’ll never forget that thang was so icy!!!
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My boy is really a trendsetter nobody had they own phone. “The boy has his own phone” Pops on coming to America voice lmao!!!
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This was my anthem when I had those
Favorite or unknown
‘06 memory?
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Being able to stay out to 5am and still score 40 points for noon game
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Humble Brag. Not many could do that Flash!!!
But for real just being on a team with dudes I grew up watching. Like we played with Shaq ,Zo, GP, AWalk, White Chocolate bro. Legends!!!!
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Living Legends.
It was super dope of you to get that 06 championship team on Zoom a few weeks ago! Haven’t seen some of those guys in forever
Living Legends.
Man we laughed the entire time. We gotta get together more man. That was some of the best time in our professional lives!
DWade
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Facts bro
I was gassing them on the chat but that 06 team was legendary! I’m taking that team any day of the week. We had heart!
DWade
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Bro what factors played into your move to Li-Ning? Was it a difficult decision to make?
Honestly it wasn’t as difficult as I may have made it out to be at first. The only thing I was losing was the cool factor. Being with the jordan brand gave you a certain cool factor with celebs and others.
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Outside of that I had to think about my future and what I wanted to accomplish. So I looked no further than the man himself MJ for that inspiration.
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That’s real. I’m so big on Legacy!!! And that’s how I looked at it!!!
Got a chance to start my own brand with Li-Ning. So It was really a no brainer.
DWade
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Exactly bro!
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Also they had your boy like this….
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And I appreciate you bringing ya boy on as well. Those four years under the W.O.W
DWade
Ayeeeeeee
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What’s your favorite thing to do now that You’re retired?
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EAT!!!!!!
Man you know Chef Rich cooking that
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Bro Chef Rich
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@ChefRLI on IG if y’all wanna get FOMO!
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Bro I’m still trying to figure out, what the hell was that Dessert he brought out at the crib few weeks ago! Shid was
DWade
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How dope is it to see Z becoming a young man and hooping?
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Man I’m loving it Dwright. The kid has his own business at 18 years old. He’s grinding on the court and in the weight room. He’s a good student. He’s respectable. He’s just a good kid man. I got so lucky to have my first born be Zaire
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Man you love to hear it!!! Shout out to my lil bro/nephew. Keep it up!!!
How’s the golf game looking. Last time we were on the links you were doing your stuff. How’s your game been since you retired?
DWade
Man you see that set up. I’m nice hahahahaha
Man golf is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.
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Bro one of the hardest games ever.
Switching it up for a minute… How did you, Melo and CP3 come together to create the Social Change Fund??
DWade
In 2016 at the ESPY awards we had a call to action to all our fellow athletes so this was a continuation of that. We wanted to put something together that all of our fellow athletes and so many others can get behind and be involved with. So we created The Social Change Fund that supports organizations and people on the ground in the community doing the actual work to create change.
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Bro
DWade
We decided that our reach was greater together than apart
So we wanted to come together and bring our resources and platform together to make the biggest impact.
Love what you guys are doing!!! Making a change!!!!!! Congrats to you guys!!! Using your platform and creating opportunity.
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Pic I took last summer.
Hahahha boy was locked in. I hear that bro.
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Russ focused
That’s me praying hahaha
My 1st tatt was at 15! Why did you wait until ya 30’s to get tatted
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Bro. I had to focus on ball. I couldn’t get distracted. I didn’t drink,smoke,get tatts or anything until I knew I had everything taken care of.
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Now I’m Tatted!!!
You was brave for this one my boy!!
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Shout out to my guy Steve Wiebe
Can’t run from that pain hahaha good pain tho
That knee has had so many problems. That Tatt is for my war wounds on that knee.
3 surgeries later…
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That’s fye
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YOOOOO we have to give a big shout out to our Vacay group the 567!!! What you think bro. Anybody out there messing with our travel group!!!
Man 567 is bro. Our range is unreal. We have so many people with so many different vibes. We literally touch everything.
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Our convos be next level but what I love most is
the honesty. None of us have the answers and we ok with saying that. We’re
all trying to find the answers to life and it’s a journey we’re on together
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So true bro. I’m the youngsta out the group.
So I appreciate everyone Becuz I leave
so motivated and more
educated then I was
b4 I got there.
I know my boy be hella sleepy too.
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Hella matchy matchy
Top five favorite WNBA players??
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Imma go with
Diana Taurasi,
Candace Parker,
Sue Bird, A’ja Wilson,
Sylvia Fowles.
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A lot of dope players in the league but those are my favorites.
DWade
love it!!!
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Speaking of Top 5…
Is there anyone on Gab’s level when it comes to throwing a theme party?
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Bro you know Gab’s parties are legendary!! People fly in for them. We’re definitely top 5 greatest theme party throwers hahaha
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Big facts. Mia and I fasho top 5 too.
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Yea y’all do y’all thing forsure!
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My dawg Mia!
Hahahahaha
Man bro bro I appreciate you coming on the text message talk show with your boy!! I know your a man of many things!!! I also know Boss lady Kaavia is waiting on you!! Love you bro bro!!!
Man it was my pleasure!
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Me walking back to
daddy duties
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