With LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh on the club, the Miami Heat were among the NBA’s most successful teams.

Chris Paul, a fourth star, was almost included in the mix in 2011, however.

During an interview with Dwyane Wade on iHeart Podcasts’ The Why, Wade said that Paul was not transferred to Miami because he refused to part with his No. 3, which the Heat finally retired in 2020.

“We were discussing my visitation to Miami. We were discussing who would hold the ball in their hands and the mechanics of the game,” Paul said at the one hour and twenty-eight minute point. “Who was it then? Was it Paul’s brother CJ who made a comment about who would wear number three?”

“Bro, that’s what I wаnted to get to,” Wade said. We discuss everything from who will have the ball to how we will all play together to the fact that no CP can have the ball. After we had worked everything out, someone said, “So who’s going to wear number three?” Stillness. ruined the whole trade up.

Maybe Paul would have won a championship if he had been dealt to the Heat. Rather, he ended up joining the Los Angeles Clippers, where he is now regarded as one of the greatest players to never win a title.