The Miami Heat selected Michael Beasley with the second overall pick of the 2008 NBA Draft, passing on players who have been on All-Star teams and have won gold medals such as Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook. O.J. Mayo has also become an established scorer this season.

"I mean those guys are the future of the NBA," Wade said of the 2008 draft class. "But I think when you think about in the position we were in, we took one of the most talented guys in the draft. Michael Beasley is very talented. His career hasn't gone the way the other guys' have, for whatever reason, but I thought we made a good pick."

Beasley was traded by the Heat in a cap clearing room in 2010.

"I liked Mayo coming out, somebody that I was lobbying for," said Wade. "I knew he was going to be pretty good. But Kevin Love I think exceeded everyone's expectations. We knew that he had talent, from when you watched him at UCLA, but you didn't know he had this kind of talent."

If the Heat had hit on the 2008 draft, they could conceivably have had a Big 4.

"That's OK," Wade said. "We got a championship. So who knows what would have happened if something else would have happened?"