MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade still cringes as he thinks back to his initial reaction when NBA schedules were released last summer and he saw the gauntlet that awaited the Miami Heat in the first month of 2016.
Total January games: 17
Total January road games: 12
"It's the toughest (stretch of a) schedule I've dealt with in my 13 years," Wade said Sunday night. "When it came out, you looked at this month and you were like, 'Whew. That's going to be a crazy month.' So to come out of it -- especially with everything we dealt with and went through -- playing our best basketball, it shows how strong-willed this team is at times.