How basketball's biggest names found golf

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Ballers: Former NBA teammates Dorell Wright and Dwyane Wade launch a golf business

DWYANE WADE AND DORELL WRIGHT were introduced to golf through NBA teammates, but neither had any interest in playing the game at first. Wade thought it was a “waste of time” and didn’t understand teammates who were spending so much time on the course instead of “working on their craft” on the court. Wright went so far as to actively mock those who were playing.

“I used to go out on the course with them and sit in the cart and laugh at them playing golf,” Wright says. “I used to roll around and think that it was just so lame.”

Now the two former Miami Heat teammates look back and laugh about how wrong their first impressions of golf were. Wade would eventually start playing sporadically, finally getting serious about golf during his final NBA season in 2019. Wright followed as one of the many who picked up the sport during the pandemic when there wasn’t much else to do. These days there’s not much else these two buddies would rather do.

“I’ve had a couple of moments this summer where things have happened physically, and all I thought about was, ‘Uh, can I golf?”’ Wade says.

Few have had better basketball careers than Wade, a three-time NBA champ and first-ballot hall-of-famer, and there also aren’t too many golfers with a better hole-in-one story.

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From the Archive

MARCH 1988 Issue

The NBA superstar sets the record straight about his gambling, shares advice he's told Tiger and vows to play more (and better) after retirement

In March 1998, Michael Jordan was already thinking about life after basketball, and golf was a big part of the plan. While chasing his sixth NBA championship with the Bulls, he played whenever he could, including 46 holes during one trip to South Florida. He told Golf Digest he planned to give the game more time after he retired, and he described how Davis Love III first introduced him to golf in 1984. Nearly three decades later, basketball and golf are more closely tied than ever, and for former Miami Heat teammates Dwyane Wade and Dorell Wright, the course is where they get to be teammates again.

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