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Dwyane Wade: Y’all know how good Norman is. He was an All-Star this year out there in the West. And so, for the Heat to be able to get a player like that with Bam with Tyler, as the one-two options, like, all right, great! All right, let's go. Dorell Wright: He's a Heat culture guy. He spoke on that when he got traded and talked about him going to Miami that he's Heat culture. He checks all the boxes. He checks all the boxes for a Heat guy.
Dorell Wright: If I coach, it'll have to be for the Miami Heat or the San Antonio Spurs. That's the only stability. No Golden State. That's the only stability in the NBA. Everybody else, you're going to move your whole family and you're going to be out in about a year or two.
Dorell Wright: "I remember Pat Riley calling my agent right before they drafted me and said, 'Do you think Dorell can handle Miami?' I told him, 'Yeah, what do you mean?' I had no idea about Miami other than what I saw on TV. The first day I got there, I realized, 'This is what they were talking about.' Then I’m on South Beach hanging with my teammates, being grown at 18 and 19. Pat called me into the office, 'Man, you need to stop hanging out on the beach. You're underage. You need to go to the University of Miami with people your age.' "
Brady Hawk: Delon Wright: “I wish I was here earlier in my career. Watching my brother, watching D-Wade.”
Tim Reynolds: Among the former Heat players expected to attend tomorrow in support of Udonis Haslem on the jersey night: Jason Williams, Goran Dragic, Dorell Wright, Tim Hardaway, Mario Chalmers, Dwyane Wade, Quentin Richardson and Shane Battier.
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Kimberly Hicks, the mother of Justin Johnson, a starting forward at Donda Academy, on Thursday told USA TODAY Sports the team practiced that morning. She also said the team's head coach, Dorell Wright, told her the team plans to play during the upcoming season. “I trust Dorell Wright by making a decision for the boys,’’ Hicks said.
Kerith Burke: Fun chat with @Dorell Wright and his brother @Delon Wright. Dorell entered the NBA out of high school, at age 18, drafted by Miami. He said Pat Riley told him to stay away from South Beach. 😂
Warriors analyst Dorell Wright, who was a teammate of Klay's for the 2011-12 season, told NBC Sports Bay Area's Grant Liffmann about why he's such a fan of Thompson's talent. "You fall in love with the game because the jumper is just so pretty," Wright said on "Dubs Talk." "We keep bringing up the game he had when he only took 11 dribbles and had 60 points or something like that, that's so crazy to me.”
Dorell Wright: "The way he approaches the game, he plays on both ends, he's not one of those superstars that's like, 'come on, this guy,' he doesn't complain, just goes about his business, brings his hard hat and his lunch pail every day."
Dorell Wright announces retirement from basketball
Veteran guard Dorell Wright announced his retirement from basketball at the age of 34. Wright has spent 12 seasons in the NBA. He played six years for the Miami Heat, winning a championship in 2006, then he had stints with Golden State, Philadelphia, Portland and again Miami in the 2016 playoffs.
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Dorell Wright: So I wanna ask with the statue going up at Staples... Which of Kobe's signature moves should be on his statue? Shaquille O'Neal: That pull up jumper at the buzzer versus Phoenix in the first round of the 2006 playoffs.
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