There’s a reason why I’m still here.”Back when it all began, Wade heard James before he actually met him. It was the spring of 2003, and Wade was waiting to be examined by doctors in a small room at the N.B.A. Pachulia, who had been playing in Turkey, arrived for the draft at Madison Square Garden in a new suit. But he was still expecting to go in the first round after his agent had advised against his entering the 2002 draft. “Just wait another year,” Pachulia recalled his agent telling him.

Source: New York Times December 20, 2018 17:20 UTC