Just about every NBA player dreams of making it to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and this weekend, Dwyane Wade and Dirk Nowitzki will achieve that dream.
They were two of the NBA’s top stars of the 2000s and early-2010s, and together they combined to win four world championships while scoring countless points.
Wade and Nowitzki recently teamed up to record a funny video in which they answered some questions about who was better at certain aspects of basketball, via NBACentral.
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Wade was drafted No. 5 overall in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Miami Heat at a time when the franchise was going through hard times after a strong run in the late-1990s.
As a rookie, he quickly showed he was special by coming up clutch during the playoffs, and the following year, he blossomed into a superstar by averaging 24.1 points and 6.8 assists.
His quickness down the baseline was amazing, so much so that teammate Shaquille O’Neal nicknamed him “Flash.”
In just his third season with the Heat, Wade won his first NBA title, and he had one of the greatest performances anyone has ever had in the championship series, averaging 34.7 points a game and winning the series MVP award.
Two more championships would follow in the years to come after LeBron James took his talents to the team in 2010.
Nowitzki’s path to greatness was a lot more frustrating, as his Dallas Mavericks teams regularly fell short in the playoffs for many years.
It was his Mavs that fell to Wade’s Heat in the 2006 NBA Finals, but in 2011, he got his revenge when Dallas knocked out Miami in six games to win it all.
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