Dwyane
Wade
Man of Many Roles “Wade is that rare breed of basketball player who has learnt the valuable lesson that helping others is the one of best ways to heal yourself.”
Dand a millionaire many times over, a much sought after spokesperson for companies as diverse as T-Mobile, Gatorade and cookie makers Pepperidge Farm, but that’s not all he is. As well as a fashion icon (Esquire named him the best dressed NBA player and Forbes magazine voted him one of America’s best dressed athletes) and an outspoken advocate for social justice (he appeared on the cover of Ebony magazine wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt to protest the Trayvon Martin killing), he’s also a philanthropist (the Huffington Post named him “number one featured doer” for his charitable work). His Wade’s World Foundation has hosted Christmas parties for underprivileged kids, organized free basketball camps and raised money for earthquake victims in Haiti. But Wade insists that the most important role he plays is that of a doting father to his two sons, six year old Zion and eleven year old Zaire.
Wade won sole custody of the two boys in 2011 after a messy and highly public divorce from his childhood sweetheart. In his recently
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Dwyane Wade has achieved success against some of the longest odds possible. The Miami Heat shooting guard was born dirt poor in 1982 on Chicago’s notorious gang-infested South Side and in his early years he subsisted on government handouts.This was a time when the crack cocaine epidemic was beginning to devastate inner city neighborhoods across America. One of the early victims of this drug scourge was Wade’s mother, Jolinda, who sold cocaine to feed her habit. Lost to the crack pipe, she was unable to look after her son, so Wade was raised by his beloved sister Tragil, only five years older than him. After his mother was sent to prison for dealing cocaine, Dwayne went to live with his father, Dwyane Sr., a former army sergeant and strict disciplinarian who Wade credits with setting him on the road to eventual basketball stardom. Wade was ten years old.
In a remarkable turnaround in fortune, today life couldn’t be sweeter for the NBA superstar. He’s one of basketball’s most valuable players