NBA: Heat launch campaign website to keep Wade in Miami

MIAMI — Send dessert to Dwyane Wade's table or start a standing ovation. Don't ask for a car or display your D-Wade tattoo.

These, and other tips for Miami Heat fans, are now available on a website — www.wewantwade.com — unveiled Thursday by the team with hopes of keeping the 2006 NBA finals MVP in South Florida for years to come.

"We want to show Wade the love," the website says.

Wade learned of the Heat's web campaign Thursday morning, shortly after the team's marketing department launched the new site — which was already getting posts from fans within a few minutes of going live.

"I thought it was hilarious," Wade said. "But I appreciate it. I do, I really do."

The former league scoring champion will exercise his right to become a free agent, and he'll be clear to talk with other teams at 12:01 a.m. July 1. He has said many times that his preference is to stay with the Heat, which can offer him a deal for six years and worth about $127 million — more years and more money than any other club could offer.

Signing him, of course, is the Heat top priority for the offseason.

The website touts itself as the "place to show your support for our MV3 and to help keep Dwyane Wade in Wade County! ... And we'll be adding things right up to the start of the free agency period, so check back often for the latest D.Wade info, events, downloads and more."

Wade said he didn't expect a website in his honor, but has learned not to be surprised by any approach when it comes to his future. Everywhere he goes, he's asked by fans where he'll play next season — and, more often than not, begged to sign in their city.

"You get a lot of people respectful of you and you understand that they want you to be in the city — whatever city that is," Wade said. "They express that opinion no matter where you go. I'll never be surprised of anyone who says it."

Free agency is only one significant issue for Wade this summer.

He's embroiled in a bitter divorce and custody case in Chicago, and in Miami, is facing a lawsuit brought by former partners in a failed restaurant deal. Wade is also seeking damages from those partners over use of his likeness, and other suits involving plans to sell memorabilia and attaching his name to a charter school are pending.