Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Paul Pierce explains why he’s better than Dwyane Wade.
However, if you ask Pierce, he’ll chalk up the difference to the talent surrounding Wade in Miami. During his podcast appearance, Pierce said his skills were “underappreciated” because, unlike Wade, he didn’t get to play with many great players in their prime like Shaquille O’Neal, LeBron James and Chris Bosh. “Put Shaq [O’Neal] on my team. Put LeBron [James] and [Chris] Bosh with me. I’m not gonna win one?” asked Pierce. “Put me, LeBron and Bosh… we not gonna win a couple?”
“For a long time, my skills went unappreciated because I didn’t get to play with a lot of great players,” Pierce continued. “And then I got to play with KG and Ray [Allen] past their prime. Four years earlier, you put me, Ray, and KG together, you think we’re not walking away with three ‘ships?”
Despite his various statements about Wade, Pierce made clear that he was not attempting to discredit the soon-to-be Hall of Famer’s decorated career. Wade was a three-time NBA champion, 13-time All-Star, and eight-time All-NBA selectee. If circumstances were swapped however, Pierce thinks he could have been just as successful, if not more.
Boston Celtics great Paul Pierce made several eyebrow-raising remarks on this week’s episode of the “It Is What It Is” podcast, claiming to be better than fellow Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade, which led to a fiery response from a former Miami Heat teammate.
Commenting on Pierce’s hot take, Heat fan favorite Udonis Haslem said that appearing on podcasts has former players “getting diarrhea of the mouth.”
Haslem is fully qualified to defend Wade, having played alongside him for each of his 15 seasons in a Heat uniform. Furthermore, Wade was arguably the better player when looking at their career accomplishments.
With most of their careers overlapping, the pair matched up against one another 33 times, with Wade getting the better of Pierce, even by the slightest of margins.
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