Dwyane Wade Says He’s Producing a Redeem Team Documentary
Written by SOURCE on April 26, 2020
The 2008 United States Olympic basketball team will go down in history as one of the best teams ever assembled. Now that he’s retired, Dwyane Wade decided to focus some of his spare time on creating a documentary that details how this team was assembled.
During an appearance on The Platform podcast, Wade revealed that he’s executive producing a documentary about the 2008 Olympic team.
“It’s something that we’ve been working on for the last year or so,” Wade said.
In 2004, the United States Men’s team fell from the throne. Although they walked away from Athens with the bronze medal, this was considered an embarrassing defeat. As a result, the United States and Nike decided to revamp the national basketball program heading into the 2008 Olympics. The aptly named “Redeem Team” was spearheaded by Kobe Bryant, who was absent from the 2004 Olympic team. Wade touched on Kobe’s international appeal and competitiveness during his talk with The Platform.
“Yeah, dude. That man was coldblooded,” Wade said when explaining how Bryant would talk trash to the other world teams in their native language. “We’d get in competition and he would talk to other players in their language and we don’t know what he’s saying.”
“It was dope just even being around him,” Wade said before comparing Bryant’s stardom to Michael Jordan’s international popularity. “You’ve seen [The Last Dance] when everybody ran up on Jordan when he was in Paris? That’s how it was for Kobe in China. … And you got some of the best players in the world on this team but it was Kobe. It was all about Kobe.”
