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NBA Fans Hilariously Dub Cleveland Cavaliers Player As The Real D-Wade

Cleveland Cavaliers player Dean Wade had 20 fourth-quarter points in a comeback victory against the Boston Celtics, prompting the Internet to compare him to Miami Heat legend Dwyane Wade

Shandel Richardson

NBA Fans Hilariously Dub Cleveland Cavaliers Player As The Real D-Wade
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Throughout his NBA career, Miami Heat legend Dwyane Wade was simply known as "D-Wade" to fans. 

Apparently, that nickname now belongs to someone else. Cleveland Cavaliers player Dean Wade scored 20 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter to spark a comeback victory against the Boston Celtics. 

"He was himself," Cavs coach J.B. Bickerstaff said of Wade. "This is a version of Dean Wade that we've seen in the past and it's the one that we press, and press, and press from him to be. "When Dean Wade is playing with that extreme confidence, he's a hell of a basketball player. He's a multi-faceted guy. He's not just a spot-up shooter. We know the thing he can do defensively, but he has an offense game and tonight he got it rolling. The belief, the confidence, that's who he is at his core."

The Cavaliers took down the league's best team by rallying from 22 points in the fourth quarter. Naturally, the Internet decided to have fun with the other Wade's performance. 

Fans began calling him "D-Wade" on social media. 

The new Wade has a long way to go before he reaches the status of the original. Dwyane Wade is widely considered the best player in franchise history after his Hall of Fame career. 

But one night, his nickname belonged to someone else. 

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Shandel Richardson covers the Miami Heat for Inside The Heat, a Fan Nation channel for Sports Illustrated. He has covered the NBA since 2010.

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Shandel Richardson
SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star.  TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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