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Wade recalls posterizing Varejao: 'He gon cry in the car'

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Nov. 12, 2009 will be remembered as the day Dwyane Wade snatched Anderson Varejao's soul, then walked over his lifeless carcass.

Playing for the Miami Heat against the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers, Wade worked his way through the middle of the lane before hammering home one of the nastiest one-handed dunks in NBA history over the Brazilian big man, despite being six inches shorter.

When asked what was going through his mind at the time by a Twitter follower, all Wade recalled was that he was going to make Varejao weep afterward as a result of the facial jam:

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