SALT LAKE CITY -- Dwyane Wade and his wife, Gabrielle Union, tried to mix in at the back of a crowd outside Salt Lake City's Delta Center in early October as thousands waited for a procession of stars to celebrate the opening night of the Utah Hockey Club's inaugural season.
Wade, the retired Basketball Hall of Fame guard who starred for the Miami Heat and is now a limited partner of the Utah Jazz and the Hockey Club, turned to Ryan Smith, his billionaire partner and the man who sold him on the idea of Utah as the next big thing in basketball, soccer and hockey.