It was just short of four years ago, back in the summer of 1999, that Dwyane Wade found himself wondering. Here he was, unheralded and about to enter his senior year at Richards High School, and suddenly he was part of an AAU team that included such acclaimed names as Darius Miles and T.J. Cummings.

"I had so many great teammates," Wade remembered last month. "Out of everybody, I was the one not known."