For a handful of minutes Wednesday after the Miami Heat’s 108-74 win against the Detroit Pistons, Wayne Ellington sat at his locker in the visiting locker room at AmericanAirlines Arena, scrawling a message on the giant “0” of his blue No. 20 Pistons jersey with a black Sharpie marker.
By the time the Ellington was done, the entire numeral was covered in black ink, a note to Dwyane Wade after the two guards squared off for likely the last time.
“It’s been an honor to play with D-Wade this past year and some change, and to get to know him as a person has been even better, just to know what type of guy he is off the floor,” Ellington said.