Dwyane Wade traded back to the Miami Heat

Dwyane Wade arrives in Miami and has a message for HEAT Nation.

* 2017-18 NBA Trade Tracker

Dwyane Wade did not see this coming.

Not right now, anyway. He has fully believed for many months that he would eventually return to the Miami Heat, though he figured it would happen in a free-agent deal this coming summer and not on a Thursday afternoon while he was headed into Cleveland's practice facility for a workout with LeBron James.

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Then came the text from agent Leon Rose: ''Call me 911,'' he wrote.

''So if you get a text like that and the trade deadline is coming up and you know the team that you're on is going to be very active, you know something is going down with you,'' Wade said. ''And my mind went right to, 'No, it's not Miami. There's no way.' My mind went right to that because I felt like that's the only other place I can be.''

He was right. Wade, who left Miami in 2016 for his hometown of Chicago, is now back in his NBA hometown. He's with the Heat again, getting traded as part of Cleveland's massive roster shake-up Thursday in exchange for a second-round pick in 2024.