CHICAGO — Perhaps the most important thing Dwyane Wade has ever done is happening far from a basketball court. Far away from All-Star weekend and the NBA. It isn’t a game, or a single act, or spoken words. It’s the love Wade and his wife, Gabrielle Union, have privately and publicly shown for their 12-year-old transgender daughter, Zaya.
And it is, to the only openly gay player in NBA history, “Inspiring.”
That’s the first word former NBA center Jason Collins used in a conversation with Yahoo Sports on Thursday night. His face lit up when asked about Wade, Union and Zaya.