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From Robbins to the NBA, Dwyane Wade got to Hall of Fame doing it his way

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Wade, from Robbins, will go into the Hall of Fame on Saturday as a 13-time all-star, three-time champion and Olympic gold medalist.

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The extraordinary career that took Dwyane Wade to NBA championships, an Olympic gold medal and now basketball’s highest honor, never seemed normal to him. It still doesn’t.

As Lisa Salters introduced him at an event for incoming Hall of Famers, the ever-cool Wade looked almost jittery. She hailed him as a kid from Chicago’s South Side, and he interjected with an emphatic, elongated, “Yeahhh.” When she asked if he could describe his journey from Robbins to Marquette to the Heat, he responded simply, “No.