5 Things We Learned From ESPN’s Feature on LeBron James and Dwyane Wade’s Friendship

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are even better friends than everyone thought, according to a new ESPN feature.

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When the Heat lost to the Raptors on Sunday, it ended Miami's season. It also ended any hopes of Dwyane Wade squaring off against his former teammate and close friend LeBron James in the Eastern Conference Finals. But thanks to a feature story ESPN published early Friday, people are still talking about the LeBron and D-Wade connection.

It's not exactly a secret that LeBron and Wade are BFFs. Back in early March, they both caught a ton of flack after their trainer posted a Snapchat video of them working out together. It caused some people to question their commitment to their respective teams. But in the ESPN piece—which is called "The Friendship That Divides the NBA"—reporter Pablo S. Torre digs deep into their relationship and discovers that it extends far beyond the basketball court. He also uncovers some interesting tidbits about them that we didn't already know. Here are five things we learned about LeBron and Wade's friendship from the feature.

LeBron knows more about Wade than his wife Gabrielle Union does.

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Wade routinely trusts LeBron to order meals for him when they go out to eat.

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Wade hates seafood. At least, that's what his wife thinks. It seems he doesn't mind eating it if LeBron orders it for him, though, according to this excerpt from the ESPN piece that describes how LeBron often orders dinner for Wade when he's running late:


"My wife wouldn't know what to order," Wade says, "but Bron's like, I got it." Two years ago, at just such a dinner in New Orleans, Union could only watch, deeply confused, as James unilaterally picked seabass for a man who'd expressed a lifelong distaste for fish. "It's what I wanted," her husband would later explain, shrugging. "Bron got me on seabass."

Oh well. As far as secrets your significant other doesn't know about you, it could be a lot worse, right?

LeBron and Wade used to have sleepovers during road trips.

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LeBron helped Wade when he first gained full custody of his two sons.

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LeBron and Wade (probably) use the L-word.

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