Dwyane Wade suffered major setback right after leaving NBA
While Dwyane Wade’s NBA career was decorated with achievements, his life right after the retirement didn’t turn as he wanted. Wade started experiencing digestive and urinary issues, which were later diagnosed as Stage 1 cancer in right kidney. In ‘The Why with Wade’ podcast, he opened up about the same:
“That moment was probably the weakest point I’ve ever felt in my life.
The moments I was by myself, I was struggling.Dwyane Wade emerged victorious from the medical challenge after getting his tumor removed in December 2023.
On his podcast, Wade used his experiences to influence people and helped them find positivity even in situations when everything went against them.
Dwyane Wade donned writer’s hat in 2012 to talk about parenting
Dwyane Wade, while struggling through his cancer, kept his mind at work. He talked about struggles as a single father. Later, Wade and his wife, Gabrielle Union, opted for surrogacy
They found it useful to talk about the challenges people face and chose books as a way to normalize issues parents refrain from talking about.
Wade wrote the book ‘A Father First’ to talk about the challenges he faced while raising his sons as a single father. The book was published in 2012 and bec
which was a children’s picture book. The book was titled Shady Baby. Through this book, they shared how to convert shade into power, and normalized methods like surrogacy and discussions around the same.
Dwyane Wade had to tackle another challenging situation when their daughter, Zaya, came out as transgender. Talking about that phase and how they protected their child from hate around, he shared:
“I’m such a proud father, and I try to post my kids.
So, as my child got older and got confident and comfortable with us talking more about her and talking more about her situation, that’s when we did.Dwyane Wade invested in NBA, WNBA, and NHL franchises
Dwyane Wade used his financial footing and love for sports to stay closer to the games. He acquired stakes in NBA, WNBA, and NHL teams to pump in money and resources for the betterment of these sports.Dwyane Wade’s other notable ventures in food, wine, beauty, fashion, and luxury accessories industries
Whatever Dwyane does comes from the space of pushing his community to the forefront of things. He started a beauty products line aimed at providing cosmetic solutions to people of color.
His business acumen merged with compassion enabled him to see ventures from a samaritan’s perspective, who was out on a mission to help people. Talking about his view on using businesses as a means to help, he told Athletic:
“Not everyone is going to be invited into that room, so you can hold the door open to see if others can come in.
If not, make sure that you’re doing your job, giving back to the people that you hope will walk through those doors.”
His successful wine venture, Wade Cellars, partnered with the Jones sisters, who owned an Inglewood, Calif., establishment, to enable the expansion of the Black-owned wine community. One of the Jones sisters, Leslie, commented, as per an Athletic’s report:
“Every time I get to speak about him in the wine space, I love to do it.
I think that he, better than anyone, has used his platform and used his celebrity (status) to push the Black wine community along.”
“He brought on all Black-owned wine brands to be the vendors.”
