Dwayne Wade, a three-time NBA champion, once responded to the stunned crowd at the FTX Arena following his spectacular dunk against Kendrick Perkins and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
In the late 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s, Dwayne Wade was a world-class basketball player. He was one of the best players in the world thanks to his ability to score, play defense, and be athletic.
Wade receives accolades for his flawless body of work over a 16-year period, but he doesn’t come close to receiving the respect due to him for his athleticism and dunking prowess.
When questioned about the fierce dunk he produced against the Thunder in 2011 on Kendrick Perkins, the 41-year-old once gave his perspective.
Dwayne Wade reacts to his dunk on Kendrick Perkins!
A fresh, though brief, rivalry between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat Big Three was born at the start of the decade. The conflicts between the two franchises were legendary and legendary.
After all, was said and done, Flash and the Heat were crowned champions after squeaking into four consecutive NBA finals and winning two of them. The Thunder, on the other hand, advanced to the 2012 NBA Finals where they were eliminated by the Heat in six games.
Wade, though, gave Heat supporters worldwide an exceptional memory prior to their NBA Finals collision when he established the tone of the organizations’ rivalry in 2011.
The thirteen-time NBA All-Star made an unexpected turn of events as he viciously dunked over Perkins. Flash took the ball in on the left side, drove, spun, and raised himself to the basket’s rim. He showed no reserve.
Wade said the following regarding the dunk:
“Spin on Perk, prolly my second best legendary dunk, and Perk was disrespecting me a couple of nights before, so I thought I’d hand a little disrespect back to Perk and hit em with the..(imitates dance).”
A dunk of such magnitude ranking as his second favorite ever dunk says a lot about Wade’s extraordinary talent.
Dwayne Wade’s Most Distinguished Dunk!
Wade ranked the dunk against the Thunder as his second-greatest ever, which he acknowledged. His devoted following might now be left wondering what the Heat legend’s all-time best dunk is. Look nowhere else.
In the 2009 Miami Heat vs. Cleveland Cavaliers matchup, Dwayne Wade played a game to remember. The American chose to assume responsibility for guiding his squad during the contest. Despite their failure, the game is fondly recalled for just one reason.
Wade ran coast to coast across the court while the game was still in progress, gathering the rebound after a missed dunk attempt by LeBron James, before dropping a spectacular dunk on Cavaliers forward Anderson Varejao. It is without a doubt the Flash’s best piece of art in the history of the game.
