“I was pissed he got fired. I don’t know all the ins and outs of what happened. But who cares? I didn’t like it,” Wade said. “We spent a lot of time together. Vacation in the summer together. It’s something we talked about beforehand. So I wasn’t shocked when it happened. But I knew he was a very good coach and a coach like that is not going to be out of a job for long. So it was cool to be part of the process as his friend, talk about certain teams and certain places he was going (for job interviews).”