The Miami Heat could've had LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul and Chris Bosh on the same team, had it not been for a jersey number.
That's what Wade and Paul claimed during an episode of Wade's "The Why" podcast published Wednesday, in which the two friends looked back on a fascinating hypothetical for the James-era Heat.
As the two explained it, the Heat's core and Paul had several conversations about how such a team would work. This was likely in 2011, the offseason after James' and Bosh's first season in Miami and when Paul was up for a trade from the New Orleans Hornets.