Miami Heat great Dwyane Wade was one of the judges for the most recent NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Amid controversy, he now wants to chat with Aaron Gordon.
The Miami Heat have always been a team known for dealing with the inevitable controversy. You could look at how they initially went about acquiring the services of the slick back wearing Pat Riley for one of the earliest examples in the franchise.
A backdoor deal betwixt the two sides while he was still employed by the New York Knickerbockers, which eventually amounted to a trade based on the penalty pieces Miami had to relieve themselves of. The penalty consisted of a first-round pick and monetary compensation.
You could then fast forward to the year of 2010 when the infamous pep rally took place. It was “not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven, ayee” but 10 years ago when this famously infamous phrased was uttered by the NBA’s glorious king. That is a controversy of sorts that the Miami Heat and LeBron James himself will never be able to escape.
Now, here we are in 2020. The Miami Heat are the surprise team of the NBA and being led by Marquette’s own Jimmy Butler, when your friendly neighborhood Airplane Mode, Derrick Jones Jr., decides to enter the NBA Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend. This is where our other favorite Marquette player of all time comes into play.