The Team on Wade's dance moves

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“I said, ‘Let’s win a game and then I’ll dance,'" Wade recalled Thursday (Jan. 17). “Sure enough. I’m a man of my word."

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Freshman forward Naz Reid captured a video of the whole thing.

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“You gotta have fun,” Wade added. “The fun’s in the winning. You want to have fun when you’re winning. You don’t want winning to be miserable. We had fun in that locker room. It was a good locker room, now. We hadn’t won many like that.”

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Junior guard Skylar Mays laughed and said Wade’s dance moves were “awful.”

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Sophomore guard Tremont Waters pleaded the fifth: “That’s coach Wade’s style. I respect it whole-heartedly," Waters said.

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Junior guard Marlon Taylor called the moves the “Bring the House Down."

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“For him to open up, he’s not that type of guy,” Waters said. “He’s just not the one to walk in a room and just start dancing. That’s a family thing. We obviously knew he’s not that type of guy, but for us to get that out of him, I feel like we’re coming together as a family and just knowing that winning can help everyone, including the head coach. It’s a humbling feeling and it boosts our confidence a lot."

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Mays said he’d never seen Wade dance before. Waters said the same thing. “That was my first time seeing him come out of character. His character is yelling in practice, yelling on the court and in games and just being serious. He’ll give you a few smiles and laughs and jokes, but to see him step out of his character and start to dance, that was a great feeling and great experience for our team.” Mays added: “It was for a great reason, even though he’s not the best dancer we want to keep him dancing.”

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