Miami Heat: Dwyane Wade done in again by ESPN All-Time rankings

The greatest Miami Heat player of all time is the third-best shooting guard of all time, hands down. How’s he only ranked 26 all-time by ESPN then?

The Miami Heat are an organization used to being underrated, overlooked, and kicked when they are down. While they don’t stay down that long, a testament to their dogged mentality and determination, they have gotten accustomed to having to get up off the mat and come back out fighting.

That is something that has been instilled in their players as well, whether that was a guy struggling to make the team, the last guy on the bench, or Dwyane Wade, the greatest player in the franchise’s relatively short history. Plain and simple, the Miami Heat are used to being disrespected, it’s commonplace in the NBA.

Dwyane Wade recently took to social media to call out an instance of the very same type recently, but that apparently wasn’t the only place he should have been looking. ESPN released an all-time NBA player ranking on Tuesday, their top 74 players of all time to be exact. Needless to say, they need their heads examined.

With Flash ranked as the 26th best player of all time, that’s right and only the 26th, it is another slap in the face by an entity that calls themselves and is supposedly the Worldwide Leader. This means that they should know better, but obviously they don’t. Here is what their rankings had to say of Wade.

"Wade was more than just a sidekick to LeBron James during the duo’s run to four NBA Finals with the Heat. In just his third NBA season, Wade was named Finals MVP after helping lead Miami to a title in 2006 with Shaquille O’Neal. Wade, one of the better shot-blocking guards in history, never finished higher than third in MVP voting, but he was an eight-time All-NBA selection."

They seem to know the facts, so why such a poor assessment of those facts? That is the most important question here.

Needless to say, we disagree with these rankings, wholeheartedly and we’ll have more to say on it moving forward. For now though, ESPN, just know you you got the game messed up.

If you want to know what we are thinking when we see this list, think legendary actor Bill Duke from his legendary interrogation scene in the 1993 cult classic Menace II Society. That’s how we feel.