Read Ben Steele’s Dwyane Wade Series

[El Guerrero 2]

Ben Steele is publishing a series honoring DWade’s enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. First piece was great. Let’s give him some clicks: https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/marquette/2023/08/01/dwyane-wade-recruited-to-marquette-by-tom-crean-from-illinois-warriors/70462743007/

[HutchwasClutch]

Excellent piece today by Steele.  Cordell’s account on what Quentin Richardson told Wade on his DePaul visit is pretty incredible stuff to hear.  Who knew Richardson had such a profound impact on direction of MU basketball?!  Maybe Wade would have ended up at MU anyway, but Cordell apparently felt it was a huge moment.

Also kudos to Crean (sorry 4ever, credit where it’s due) and Buckley being able to project the incredible untapped potential and Fr Wild for giving the green light to allow him in as a partial qualifier. 

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Ben Steele can't be his real name

[JakeBarnes]

Ben Steele can't be his real name

His legal name is actually Steele Fox, but he wanted to have a more vanilla name as a reporter.

[Spotcheck Billy]

Part 2 is up today. It mostly details his first year while sitting out.

Best part IMO:

Wardle: "After my senior year, I got asked by the Milwaukee Bucks to come play pickup games in the summer. But Coach Crean asked the Bucks if Dwyane could come along because he was a talent. So Dwyane was in the car, I drove him over and we went to play open gym with the Bucks. And on the way, I was driving my girlfriend’s car at the time – who is now my wife Lecia for 20 years – so I have Lecia’s car and it starts storming out and we get in a little fender-bender car accident. I’m kind of all discouraged, worried about the car, wondering what I am going to do. But this was a big open gym for me because I am trying to play well and impress people because I’m done playing at Marquette.
"I just remember that open gym that day with Dwyane, that was the day I said D-Wade is completely not just a NBA player but a NBA all-star. Because I watched him in that open gym play unbelievable against Ray Allen, Sam Cassell, Big Dog (Glenn Robinson). And he hadn’t played a college game yet and he was controlling the open gym. I remember Sam Cassell was talking trash to Big Dog like ‘Who is this guy?’ And there was such a buzz in the gym about him that the GM and the coaches just came down to the court to stand on the sidelines to watch this kid because he was playing so well. And I remember Coach Crean calling me like ‘How’d you play, Brian?’ I’m like ‘I wasn’t very good.’ I was always very self-aware as a player. I go, ‘I wasn’t very good but, Coach, you not only have a NBA player on your team, this guy is going to be an all-star just because I just watched him really do what he wanted to do in a gym full of all-stars."

[BrewCity83]

Ben Steele can't be his real name

Bend Steele is his full given name.

[BrewCity83]

Part 2 is up today. It mostly details his first year while sitting out.

Best part IMO:

That was an awesome story!

[The Lens]

Q was on the Ryen Russillo pod recently and talked about how he often went up to MU to visit Cordell + Wardle.  He called Cordell his best friend.

This Steele peice is the best MU stuff I have ever read.

[Lennys Tap]

Q was on the Ryen Russillo pod recently and talked about how he often went up to MU to visit Cordell + Wardle.  He called Cordell his best friend.

This Steele peice is the best MU stuff I have ever read.

Q and Dennis Gates worked for a guy in my trading pit at the CBOE so I had the opportunity to get to know them a little. Very nice young men.

[wadesworld]

Q and Dennis Gates worked for a guy in my trading pit at the CBOE so I had the opportunity to get to know them a little. Very nice young men.

Mizzou had a day people could go tour the arena, locker rooms, practice gym, etc. to try to sell season tickets. I went just to see the facilities since I’d just moved to Columbia and I chatted with Gates for a few minutes about Milwaukee/Marquette. Seems like a great guy. Said he hung out at Mayfair Mall a lot in Milwaukee.