It’s a sticky early-summer morning in New York City, and deep in the maze of 30 Rockefeller Plaza I’m watching Dwyane Wade gargle a glass of water.
The Hall of Fame basketball player, 13-time All-Star, and three-time NBA champion is meticulous about his body, which in many ways is still his instrument. From 2003 to 2019, he was Flash, an apt nickname for a man who zoomed up and down the court with a controlled recklessness that made him a top-three shooting guard in NBA history. But today, he’s doing vocal warm-ups rather than calisthenics, considering his new gig no longer requires him to dunk someone through the floorboards.
