A fan wrote on Twitter earlier this week that Dwyane Wade would have retired with five championships (instead of the three he won in 2006, 2012 and 2013) if he had better knees. Wade responded to the tweet, adding that he’d have six.
Is he right?
The simplest argument in favor of Wade’s case is that LeBron James wouldn’t have left the Miami Heat if Wade’s performance hadn’t cratered the way it had during the 2014 NBA Finals. The 2006 Finals MVP scored just 15.2 points per game on 44 percent shooting in the 2014 Finals.