AP Interview: Wade's summer will be spent thinking ahead (The Associated Press)

MIAMI (AP) -- Dwyane Wade is thinking about retirement.

No, it's not imminent.

That being said, there is a target date that the Miami Heat guard and three-time NBA champion has in mind. It's a closely guarded secret that he said he's only sharing for now with his wife, Gabrielle Union. The way he's talking, next season won't be his last.

But at 33, the next chapter isn't far away for Wade, either. So the only upside to missing the playoffs - for only the second time in 12 years - is he gets to spend the next five months thinking about what comes next, on the court and off.

''I don't sit on my hands,'' Wade said in an end-of-season interview with The Associated Press. ''Obviously, everything's…