DWYANE WADE SPENT just one season playing alongside Jimmy Butler in Chicago, but that was all that was needed to form a deep -- and familiar -- impression.
"He's a Heat guy," Wade later told Erik Spoelstra, the coach of Wade's longtime franchise, the Miami Heat.
Spoelstra probably didn't need the future Hall of Famer's recommendation -- he saw from afar that Butler and his famous work ethic would fit within the team's system -- but those entrenched in Heat culture know when a player is one of them.
"You know what's really cool about that?