Former Heat Star Recalls How Millionaires LeBron James and Dwayne Wade Once Fought As A Unit Over $1000 Bill, 'He makes $100 million and there’s a thousand...'

Although LeBron James and Dwayne Wade have made several millions as professional ballers, yet there evidently is a case when the two cut out an acrimonious figure over a $1000 bill, which they enforced onto themselves albeit a petty error. The two were fined for not wearing Miami Heat gear on a road trip.

Lebron James and Dwayne Wade Lost Their Cool Over a $1000 Bill

Speaking on The OGs podcast, Arroyo brought to light how LeBron and Wade had fine slips waiting for them in their lockers after practice one day, and Haslem laughed as he recalled that they were so livid by it that they had to be separated from assistant coach Keith Askins.

They were .38 hot. They were hot as a pistol … They got into it. We had to separate ’em. [Askins] wasn’t backing down. D-Wade wanted some smoke. He make $100 million and there’s a thousand-dollar fine slip and he wanna fight.

Years later, the incident has taken the shape of a funny story about two superstars overreacting to something that should have been insignificant, but it could be seen as one of the first documented instances of “Heat culture.”

Following LeBron James' decision to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in the Miami Heat, the Heat reached at the tip of global attention, but their championship success can be attributed, in part, to the team's commitment to holding all players, including stars, to the same high standards of accountability.

King Willing To Wait For Wifi

The aforementioned case was not the first instance when Lebron chose to be economical over wealthy. LeBron's former teammate Kevin Love told Bleacher Report about how King James always waits for free wifi rather than using the facility of data connection, which is an active feature of every smartphone.

They talk about wealth, and sometimes it’s the things you don’t see, and for [LeBron] behind the scenes, if we’re in Toronto, that drive from the airport and going through customs to then getting to our hotel, yeah, there’s no data used at all, he’s waiting for the wifi all the time. Then the drive from the hotel to [the arena], also waits to get to the arena wifi.