Wade Returns. Doesn't Really Matter

Completing the NBA trio, Wednesday night Dwyane Wade returned . . . and the Miami Heat still lost. This was probably not the return he was hoping for, but now it's official: even with his help, the Heat are scraping the bottom basement of the league.

BUT, because every cloud has a silver lining, the Heat's loss gave Kevin Durant the Seattle Supersonics his its first win as a pro of the season.

Good. We killed two potential "news" stories with one stone. One, the story of Wade's return. Two, Durant's first win.

Tomorrow, when I'm not working until 1 a.m., I hope to tackle story #3 that I wish would die out: the Boston Celtics are the . . . I can't even say it. They're a good team, but they are SO overhyped, you'd think they drafted Larry Bird out of Indiana State again.

I guess this is better than Kobe-watch. Although, I did hear a comment during the Lakers game that Kobe Bryant was rumored to be coming to the Detroit Pistons, but the deal died. The Pistons? Detroit? Chicago - I might see him there. It was good enough for Michael Jordan, it's good enough for him. But Detroit? If you don't think the city he plays for has as much to do with any potential trade as the team that plays there, you are sadly mistaken. Big markets mean big money. If he leaves L.A. for Detroit, Kobe would be playing the best basketball of his life, because at that point, you know he is really getting desperate for a ring sans Shaq, and he's serious.

But I digress, because that won't happen. What will happen is that if the Heat don't start improving with Wade on the floor (and Pat Riley threatening to put his arthritic hip in the game over his current players), this has to be the last year of Shaq and Wade.

Get your tickets, people. I see a lot of shake-ups if this season is a bust for some of the more star-studded teams.