Dwyane Wade on his new book, marriage and legendary NBA career: "I kept fighting because it was my dream"
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For 16 years, NBA all-star Dwyane Wade gave everything he had to the game of basketball. Day in and day out, he played in front of thousands of fans until his retirement in 2019 — and Wade says performing on the hardwood is what he misses the most about the game.
"I miss making a shot and seeing 20,000 people stand up, and I know they're going to go home and their [is] dinner going to be better. Their relationship is going to be better. Like, I understand, like what sports do," Wade told "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King.
Since retiring from basketball, Wade has been busier than ever — as a father, entrepreneur and author.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.