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Zaire Wade Carving His Own Path In Salt Lake City

It's never easy to have to live up to a name.

Zaire Wade knows that better than most.

Growing up in the shadow of his father, Dwyane Wade, Zaire admits to struggling to establish his own identity in the basketball world. It's difficult when your father ranks as one of the best shooting guards to play the game and is widely viewed as a future first-ballot Hall-of-Famer.

But he's now forging his own path after being drafted by the Salt Lake City Stars with the No. 10 overall pick in the 2021 NBA G League draft.