Before the three NBA championships, the fame and the eight-figure contracts, Dwyane Wade was just a kid from the South Side of Chicago who faced an uncertain future because of the inequitable situation life had dealt him and his family.
Does this narrative sound familiar?
Wade’s rags to riches success story from an impoverished neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago to the NBA mirrors the very story that made Chicago fall in love with Derrick Rose when the Bulls drafted him in 2008.
Time sometimes erases the memory of past circumstance and this has become the case for Wade.