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Crowder: Heat Fans Liked Wade ‘Until He Changed’ His Identity

Dwyane Wade has one week to exercise his opt-out clause and expectedly became a free agent before next Monday’s deadline.

In the meantime, the public leverage battle over a new deal has to be filling Heat fans with discomfort as alternate destinations get rattled off by the day by their once indisputable, self-proclaimed Heat lifer.

“They liked him until he changed who he was,” Channing Crowder said on the Kup and Crowder Show on WQAM. “Heat fans, Wade, double-digit years, we’re used to Wade being a Heat lifer. Coined the phrase Heat lifer. Taking sacrifices.