Bob_The_Cat
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The weirdest thing about the Dean Wade injury is the vague way the team is handling it. JBB keeps stressing that it really is "day by day", that he may be available in the next day or two, but he might not, even though the team keeps preparing like Dean will miss the next game.
That's why a lot of people think there's something deeper going on with him or his family.
Just seems like people are jumping to conclusions based on literally zero information at all.
The assumption that people have made is that since 1) Dean had a baby and 2) he hasn’t played or posted pics on his social media of the baby, THEN something must be wrong with the baby or his family.
This sounds like the jealous significant other that thinks their spouse/BF/GF is cheating on them because their partner went to the bar with their friends and isn’t responding to texts every 10 minutes or posting pictures on social media with their friends. Their lack of evidence or response makes them assume the worst.
However, we have evidence of Wade constantly being injured going back to his HS days. The Cavs have him listed as being injured. Because of Wade’s history, him getting injured in a non-sports related accident wouldn’t really be a major shock.
Also, Philly got a $100,000 fine for listing Embiid’s availability incorrectly for a single game. If the Cavs were listing a player incorrectly on the injury report for almost two months, the league would probably drop the hammer on the Cavs to discourage others from doing it.
It’s not like missing time for personal reasons is some unprecedented thing in the NBA that the Cavs would need to disguise. Wiggins missed a bunch of time last year for personal reasons and the Warriors didn’t make up some injury to ‘provide cover.’ Jrue missed a lot of time when he was NO for personal reasons due to complications surrounding his wife and the birth of a child. Lowry missed a bunch of time. There have been many others.
Point is, speculating on his absence with no other information doesn’t seem wise.
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