Dwyane Wade is blogging, sort of

June 30th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

Busy day, and so my own blogging has taken a bit of a hit (until later tonight when I finally get caught up, that is), but this is too interesting to pass up: Dwyane Wade has filed his first blog post for the Chicago Sun-Times. Of course, it is the Sun-Times, which means it’s called a “diary” and not a blog — just like Jay Mariotti’s midday missives are “mini-columns” — but it is what it is. There’s nothing particularly interesting, though I do wish I could be a fly on the wall during press-related stuff like this:

We have a lot of fun together on the court, but we also have fun together off the court. Friday night we all got together off the court. Myself, LeBron, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Carlos Boozer all had a chance to get away from basketball at a club and really chill. We’re going to have fun together and we’re going to keep doing it with the rest of our teammates as well. While I might be one of the funniest guys on this team, LeBron is by far the craziest guy on this team. With him, it doesn’t matter, he will say anything. Carmelo is very silly. We keep J-Kidd (Jason Kidd) and Kobe (Bryant) young because we keep them laughing a lot.

Is LeBron really that funny? I’ve always had the impression that he felt the need to be funny as a means to a very wealthy end, not because he actually was funny. Maybe he actually is funny. Or maybe Team USA is just a very willing audience.

Either way, D-Wade is writing for the Sun-Times, which is kind of strange, I guess, but he is a Chicago guy, and probably sees the Sun-Times gig as the first step in the door. No doubt he longs to one day return to Chicago to play basketball here during our brutally soul-crushing winters. Right.