I hadn’t made Luol Deng highlights the whole season, and now I’m doing them on consecutive nights? What’s the deal here?
The deal here, I guess, is that Dwyane Wade is dead and Pat Riley has told Deng to play as much like a him as possible so that the fans don’t realize that Wade is never coming back. It’s working! While composing this vid, I found myself thinking a few times stuff like, “Wow, Wade must really have been working on his jumper, that looked pure.” and “Maybe Wade has knees after all!”.
If I, a seasoned and staid NBA fan, am thinking those things, you can imagine how excited the average Miami pleb is that Wade is revitalizing his career right before their eyes, not knowing that he has passed from this existence into the next. Hell, I bet some of them earnestly believe that prime LeBron has returned to South Beach, the way Deng has played the last two games.