Why is dwyane wade not playing tonight

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Atlanta Hawks. Thousands of pro games, hundreds of thousands of college games, millions of high school games and billions of youth-league, rec-league, bar-league and whatever other sort of league games you can think of were contested in Wade ended his paternity leave Tuesday night, checking in for the Heat midway through the first quarter of their game against the Brooklyn Nets Instead, he was on the bench for a rest in his first game in nearly a month.

With all his unbridled imagination, a trait that fascinated his parents since he was a toddler, Duane Lawrence never saw this coming. I know Pat Riley likes to write cards to players, little messages on index cards, right? These blue cards. What's one of the more memorable cards you remember him writing to you?

I use my notes [app] on my phone, I'm the same way. I got to write everything down. And that's how he is. So he always carries those index cards. In the doc, you talk about how you, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh agreed to play on the same team, but that he then went radio silent on you in the days leading up to The Decision.

What was your interaction after that? I know you had a TV special, but text me back! This might be the first time anybody ever heard about it when the doc comes out, because we didn't talk about it no more. We were just excited that he came. I understood that his decision was harder than mine and Chris's decision. I just wanted to make sure that we were still going as planned. That's what I mean!

You guys had decided to play together and then he ghosts on you. I was just like, "Okay, well, me and Chris Bosh are together. That's good. I just started playing that in my mind. So I'm glad we got that footage. Listen, I appreciate them giving us credit for being that damn smart. I'm thankful for it, and being a visionary like that. When did it actually happen? The convo you guys had, the three of you agreeing to play together? I don't remember when the first one happened, but I think the documentary talks about the one on July 4th.

I was in South Carolina. My wife was shooting a pilot out there and we were about to do a whole July 4th thing on the beach. I remember getting a text message from Bron about getting on the phone. So I go have this phone call, and this was a moment that we all decided. I remember coming back and everybody looking at me because they know I just took an important call. You can tell when someone's on an important call. Everyone looking at me like I was going to tell them something, and I just waited.

I told my wife, right before the fireworks. I was like, "Shit about to change. What's something you know now that you wish maybe you'd known sooner in your career? Absolutely nothing. My baby smiled today. And she spends 20, 30 minutes on her and I sit back. I would probably become more knowledgeable about my body at an earlier age. I had some great people around me. Wade: No, no, no, no.

The snotty-nosed kid from inner-city Chicago? Wade: You have your best friends. The locker room conversations, the bus rides, the plane rides, the traveling with the Olympic team, traveling to China with Carmelo [Anthony] and [Chris Paul], and just sitting on the back of the bus with Bron.