Why does Dwyane Wade get all the credit for 2006?

Anybody remember a little guy by the name of Shaquille O'Neal? All NBA center the last 9 years, except for 1 year. And who do you think that 1 other all NBA center was, must have been pretty good right? Alonzo Mourning, who incidentally played back up for big Shaq.

I guess nobody remembers how good Antoine Walker was. He had been a 30 minute per game, 20 point, 9 rebound guy before he went to Miami. But Miami didn't need to start him, because they had a freakishly atheletic power forward named Udonis Haslem.

You think they didn't have a floor general to run the offense? Only one of the best of all time, Gary Payton, but they didn't even need to start him most of the time, because they had another all star caliber piont guard, named Jason Williams.

They also rounded out the roster well with quality role players, guys who knew their roles and did exactly what was needed, like James Posey and Michael Doleac.

Those guys all knew their roles, and were resolved to doing them because of the hall of fame coaching of one mister Pat Riley.

So stop saying that Wade "single handedly" won a championship ring. He did no such thing. He was an integral part of the team, yes.

But Wade's role on that 2006 team was barely larger than Kobe's role on the 2000-2002 Lakers.