Review

For this post I was meant to write a book review, but instead I am going to write a review on a basketball magazine that I read. The name of the magazine is Dime and it was my first time reading a magazine concentrating only on basketball, and I enjoyed it a lot. With Aquille Carr on the cover, it contained large articles about Magic Johnson, Dwayne Wade, Rajon Rondo, Kobe Brynat, Lamarcus Aldridge, and Ben.G. The article I am going to talk about was the one I found most interesting which explained Dwayne Wade’s childhood.

As many may not know Dwayne Tyrone Wade Jr. had an extremely harsh upbringing. Born on January 17, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois he lived with his mother and his older sister. As his mother was a heavy drug consumer, Dwayne saw things a child his age should never see. Before Wade was the age of 3 his parents divorced and his father moved on to get remarried and have two other sons. As Dwayne’s mother started to slip into worse conditions, Dwayne’s sister realized it was time for her to step up, and she forced Dwayne to move in with their father. Within in this time Dwayne’s mother was put in jail 3 times all equaling to 21 months. Dwayne’s father didn’t know how to bring his child’s mother back so instead he led his child to turn to Basketball and Gym. By the time Dwayne was 17 he led his school to three nation championship wins. The last high school game that Dwayne got to play before being drafted into the NBA was when he was 19, and leading his school into their final championship his mother had just came out of jail and decided to go see her son play for the first time in her life. Seeing her son excel so much and show so much passion for the game on court, and feeling the love that came from him after all those years instantly inspired her to change as a person and become clean, and also turn to religion for help. She has now been clean for 19 years and is a priest with a church signed to her name by her son, in who loves her unconditionally.

Reading this article really made me realize that if you want something you have to push through whatever you’re going through, and fight for it. And as I have learnt, life is not always going to be easy, therefore; you always have to put your heart in whatever you plan to do. Usually when I am watching basketball I never really thought of what the players may have gone through to get them there, and unbelievably a lot more players than I thought have had a harsh childhood, which makes me love the game a tremendous lot more.