High School Dwyane Wade Was Rightfully Confident

One of the most important aspects of great athletes is that they are incredibly confident people. It is why the greatest players in the game have the belief that every shot they take will go in, allowing them to look failure in the eye at the most important moments and believe that they can overcome it. Some athletes don’t develop that confidence until later in their life though, as growing high school bodies can leave some stars in awkward positions. As it turns out, Dwyane Wade wasn’t one of those kids lacking for confidence in high school.

While plenty of kids, even up to high school age, will say their goal is the NBA, young Wade took it to a different level with the proclamation that he would be retiring as one of the greatest players ever. What would really be impressive is if Wade got the prediction entirely right. According to Wade he made the prediction when he was 18 years old meaning that for it to come completely true he needs to last another five more seasons in the NBA before retiring. If he does that you should probably go to Vegas and bet on whoever he predicts as NBA Champion another 20 years down the road.

Also just a heads up to those people who may go comment on Wade’s post on Instagram. Don’t be like those other people who tell him that the school spelled his name wrong. He knows that, that would be why he put “my school still got my name wrong after 4 years” as a hashtag. Though I can’t blame his school because it is still really hard to spell Dwyane correctly.

(h/t to our old friend Ananth Pandian for the find).