D-Wade Says He Enjoys New York City. Now Move Along, There’s Nothing to See Here.

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↵In today’s Miami Herald, Dwyane Wade makes a pretty obvious, but subtle point about the way athletes get quoted in the media. It’s in reference to an earlier Newsday report that he’d consider jumping to the Knicks in that fabled year of 2010:↵↵⇥The Newsday story “was reported wrong,” Wade said Friday. “When they asked me about [Knicks coach] Mike D’Antoni, I said when I played with him in the Olympics, if it was between him and Nate McMillan, I love being on the court with him. Miami is where I want to be. If I say I like a city, people will say I want to be playing in that city. And that doesn’t mean that at all.”↵↵Interesting here -- in a sports context, when you mention a city by name alone, it’s assumed you’re referring to its team. If I write here “I like San Diego this year,” it means I enjoy the Chargers. If an athlete does the same thing, it’s a public statement about his interest in toiling for that organization. Whatever happened to just liking a place because of its food and weather?↵
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↵When you think about it, of course Wade would just mean “I heart NY.” What’s more likely: That this most demure of players drops a bombshell about his free agency intentions, almost two years before the fact or that he’s innocently asserting that he likes hanging out in the Big Apple, which many people do? I know the former makes the internet go ‘round, but come on people, smile on your brother and have some common sense.↵