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NBA legend Dwyane Wade reveals he still has letters mom sent him while she was incarcerated – ‘I read them sometimes’

NBA legend Dwayne Wade has revealed he still reads the letters his mom sent him from prison.

The former Miami Heat star was very open about his mother Jolinda’s past.

Dwyane Wade and his mother celebrating a Miami Heat victory.
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She was incarcerated during a time she battled addiction, and was released from prison in 2003.

Jolina is now an ordained pastor and she describes herself on Instagram as a “Mother, pastor, speaker, entrepreneur, granny, and author.”

Wade, 43, gifted his mother a church in Chicago in 2008.

And he still reads over the letters she sent him from behind prison walls.

The former NBA shooting guard told TMZ, “No matter where you go in life you’ve got to go back and take a look to appreciate things.”

He added, “We wasn’t judging her. We wasn’t pointing fingers at her.

“We just loved her and we just wanted her to come home to us.”

“It was the greatest pen pal that I’ve ever had.

“To be able to, like you know, have a connection still to my mind, you know, even though she wasn’t there in the physical, we still had a connection.

“We still shared things, right, and so she was still there for me.


“And I knew that she was going to get out, and so I just wanted to be there for her as much as I could.”

Wade returned the letters Jolinda sent, and she found his words just as valuable and meaningful.

She said to Wade last week, “Your letters got me through each day and enabled me to be a part of all the wonderful things that was happening in your life.”

Fans were touched by Wade’s humble take, with one writing, “How can you not love this guy?” while another shared, “This is making my heart melt with joy.”

Jolinda was arrested in 1994 for possession of crack cocaine.

She is thought to have served anywhere from nine to fourteen months before entering a work-release program.

While there, Jolinda fled and lived as a fugitive for several years before eventually turning herself in and completing her sentence.

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