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Wade was really good in 2006 imo. I feel like I don't really see it mentioned the way it was to see it. I know that you look at his boxscore... nothing record-breaking. But he had that perfect mix of savvy and energy, something that most players are either too old or too young to have both at the moment.

Miami "only" won 52 games - but their score with Wade on court was waaaay better than the total suggests, which really says a lot considering that he played almost every game, and for 38 minutes. Wade played most of his minutes that season without Shaq on court, but that wasn't a big issue - lack of Wade was just completely cutting what that team was capable of though.

Funnily, that season might have also been the individual peak for Kobe Bryant, although his teams won so much more years before and years after. I still think that individually, it was very impressive what he was doing on the offense, the stuff he was doing then, it was really something special; and that one, I think almost everyone in the NBA did notice, way than more enough.