Honestly, I love D Wade the player. He's fearless, reckless, and just fun to watch when he wasn't playing with Lebron.
Is he a dirty player? Sure, but so are some of the greats.
Rondo's elbow sucked, and it was a dirty play, but I don't think he was trying to hurt rondo, at least in the manner he did. He's no Albert haynesworth. He does get calls, but just wait til he's 34 and his body has abandoned him. He earns his fouls in tendinitis, arthritis, and other ailments.
Wow, really?
You aren't intending to cause someone pain when you kick them square in the nuts?
Likewise Rondo's elbow. What that replay tells me is that Wade felt himself falling and instinctively knew that if he fell it would give Boston an advantage, so he grabbed Rondo and pulled him down as well - in turn dislocating his elbow.
Then there was the game when I think it was Mike Miller set a hard screen on Rondo and knocked him to the floor...so then on the other end KG set a hard screen on Miller and knocked him to the floor. So Wade retaliates by running from half way across the court and send a flying shoulder straight into KG when the ball was not even close to the play.
That's just a selection of dirty plays by Wade that had no play at all on the ball, and all of which could have caused injury or pain.
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen Wade hit guys with intentional fouls with blatant disregard for whether or not they are hurt as a result.
People love to call KG dirty, but I've never seen him attack somebody with an intent to cause injury.
