Welcome to Wade County

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“The Cavs could nose dive into the cellar of the Eastern Conference playoffs, or DeWayne Wade or Kobe Bryant could go on some insane 40+ point streak. But if things play out like I believe, the NBA and its fans will be crowning a new king at season’s end.” _crunkbuc4d1 1/12/09

I guess I was partially right on this one. The Cavs haven’t nose dived but D-Wade has gone on an insane streak lately. Well, it’s less of streak and more of a cluster of games. I mean, the dude has gone off in the past two months. He’s even putting up 40 points a game over his last seven. I really don’t like scoring averages, but I look them up from time to time just to keep an eye on what’s going on. In Wade’s case they’re hard to look past sometimes when every night he’s in the Sportcenter top 10, and Stuart Scott’s screaming “Booyah!” like an idiot.

What he did the other night against Chicago was amazing. I didn’t see the game live, but ESPN did a great job of recreating the moment. Seriously, D-Wade should FedEx Heat tickets to whoever put that highlight package together because it was sweet. They even included his misses in the damn thing. There was one play where he had 3 dudes trying to guard him, and he slashed through them and got to the rim. But the sickest play of that game was the last one.

Wade picked Salmons pocket, ran up the court, leaped in the air from behind the three, called his baby momma, posed for a DIME cover, added Moon to his fave 5, and then decided he wanted to hit the game winner. That’s how crazy that moment felt to me. D-Wade was Peter Petrelli and I was a civilian wondering what the hell I just saw. Come to think of it, Brad Miller must’ve thought the same thing.

AP Photo/J Pat Carter

Anyway, Bron Bron is still the MVP. I’m not changing my pick unless D-Wade keeps doing what’s he’s doing and the Heat get the 4th seed. That’s the only way I can see him swaying votes his way. Either way I’m gonna sit back and enjoy the show.

Props to maxamillion711.com for the clip.