![]() ![]() ![]() “I take them to my grandmother’s house, where we always spent so much time as kids growing up,” he said. With Liberty City continuing to resonate. So they understand the more rough, rugged side of things from where I’m from, the actual inner city of Miami.” “They like to say that Dade County dad comes out, as opposed to the dad they have now. “They like to make a joke when I get a little fired up,” he said of his three sons. “And I make sure I take them with me when I go to do charity things, so they can see the other side, and what life is like for some people and not just us.”īut, he said, there is no questioning that he also is a somewhat of a reformed Dade dad. “I’m very careful of that, that they’re privileged, that this is not reality,” he said of his Southwest Ranches compound. What Haslem won’t allow to be lost in the commute is what the 305 means to him and how that passion has to resonate even while raising his family in a different setting. Sometimes I listen to the Isley Brothers, which was my father’s favorite group.” When I’m here in the arena, my time belongs to the Heat and the team. For the part at my home, my time belongs to my wife and my kids. It’s one of the few times I get peace and quiet. The fact that I’m on the fourth one, it probably tells you how it’s been like for them. “You got to ask my drivers,” Haslem said with a laugh when asked about the a.m. The timing of many Heat practices and shootarounds means morning rush hour. And when I leave from everything that I’ve got to deal with, I can go there and recharge and do whatever I need to do and get ready for the next day.”Īnd, yes, like the rest of South Florida’s commuters, there is a tradeoff, the traffic tradeoff. “I wanted my own peace and my own little compound. But I needed like four acres, and I knew where I could find that. You might get a half an acre, an acre lot. “I always wanted land,” the Heat’s 42-year-old captain said recently by his locker at Miami-Dade Arena. The tranquility of the suburbs, he said, allows the passion to flourish both in the locker room and in the community when he crosses the county line. To Haslem, Broward is the oasis, while Miami-Dade remains the pride.
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