LeBron James has license to order for Dwyane Wade when they’re at dinner

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade’s friendship transcends basketball. We know this. We’ve read about this. Some outmoded blowhards have even debated whether their relationship is disingenuous to NBA competition. (It isn’t, let’s move on.)

But we didn’t know they were so tight that LeBron has license to order meals on Wade’s behalf.

Until now.

Pablo S. Torre penned an excellent feature that takes a deep dive into the brotherly bond shared between two of the NBA’s biggest stars. If you have a chance, read the entire thing. You won’t regret it. But peruse this excerpt immediately:

"A recent playoff practice has just ended inside Miami’s American Airlines Arena, and Wade, still in uniform, is thoughtfully marshaling proof while perched on a tall brown chair. Like the fact that whenever he is running late to meet James at a group dinner, there is only one person the finicky Heat guard can entrust with culinary power of attorney. Even when Union is also waiting at the table. “My wife wouldn’t know what to order,” Wade says, “but Bron’s like, I got it.” Two years ago, at just such a dinner in New Orleans, Union could only watch, deeply confused, as James unilaterally picked sea bass for a man who’d expressed a lifelong distaste for fish. “It’s what I wanted,” her husband would later explain, shrugging. “Bron got me on sea bass.”"

Well, damn. I wish my girlfriend of eight years knew me like LeBron knows Wade. Seriously, “Bron got me on sea bass” needs to be tattooed on someone’s forearm—or at least made into a t-shirt:

Perfect.

On a heavier note: LeBron and Wade’s friendship is cool. The entire thing they have going with Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul is kind of awesome. It’s click-y, sure. But it reminds us that their lives extend well past the confines of the basketball court. And, sometimes, we need that reminder.

Because everyone, even NBA superstars, needs a friend, like Wade has in LeBron, to get them on their own proverbial sea bass.