Gabrielle Union shared a hilarious story on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" in May about husband Dwyane Wade's post-NBA life, discussing how he was blown away by simple things like buying milk and going to Old Navy for the first time.
Wade was given an opportunity to respond in an interview with Rohan Nadkarni of Sports Illustrated and explained that moving from Miami to Los Angeles has finally allowed him to do his own shopping.
"OK so, what I was freaking out about - if you want to call it freaking out - was the prices," Wade said. "I'm sure some guys do, but I got to a point, especially being so known in Miami - which is a good thing but at times when it comes to personal life stuff, it can be tough - where I hadn't been to a store in so long. I had a chef to go shopping, a stylist to do this, all that. I don't really go shopping, so I don't really know the prices of stuff.
"So I go into Old Navy and I start buying stuff. So I grabbed what I felt was like, (laughs), a lot of stuff, like it's got to be $100,000. Not a $100,000, but just speaking in that sense. I got up to the register and it was like $500. I was like, 'Holy shit, I thought this was way more.' So I'm kind of freaking out about that kind of stuff. And just to be able to be in L.A. and go shopping and nobody notices me was a cool experience. I never thought I would say that 16 years ago when I wanted people to notice me. Now I'm going places hoping people don't, so I can enjoy myself and not have anxiety or anything."
Wade spent the first 13 years of his NBA career with the Miami Heat before returning to the team at the 2018 trade deadline. He retired at the end of the 2018-19 campaign.
