Quietly, Dwyane Wade turns 30 in a few weeks. That’s the magical number when most athletes begin to show their age. Given that, it makes perfect sense that a 34 year old Wade wouldn’t want to play in the 2016 Olympic Games.
No U.S. men’s basketball player ever has appeared in four Olympics or won three gold medals. Cross Dwyane Wade off as a candidate to do either.
The Miami Heat guard, who won a bronze medal in Athens in 2004 and gold in Beijing in 2008, said Sunday night that 2012 in London will mark his final Olympics.
“This is my last run,” Wade, 29, said in an interview with FOX Sports Florida. “No chance (Wade will return for another Olympics). No chance at all. Not a chance.”
Wade initially had believed he was through after 2008.
“I thought I was done after the last one,” Wade said. “There are so many great young players in this league, and you want to give everybody an opportunity to be able to play on that stage. And I’ve been able to play on that stage two times already. I got a chance to win my gold medal so I thought, ‘This is a great way to end it.”‘
Source: foxsports.com
