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AP source: Wade to sign with Cavaliers, reunite with LeBron

By TOM WITHERS son as a free agent. be “a pure basketball de-
AP Sports Writer The Cavaliers emerged cision and I’ll make the one
CLEVELAND (AP) — To- Tuesday as front-runners that I feel fits me best at this
gether again: LeBron and over the Heat and Okla- point in my career and with
D-Wade. Just like old times. homa City Thunder to land what I feel I have to offer
Dwyane Wade has decid- the 35-year-old Wade, who a team that needs what
ed to sign with the Cleve- many feel say has plenty of I have to offer.”Following
land Cavaliers and reunite game left. practice on Tuesday,
with LeBron James, a per- He’ll now have a shot at Cavaliers forward Tristan
son familiar with the situ- another championship — Thompson said Wade
ation told the Associated his fourth — while playing would be a “great” fit in
Press on Tuesday night. alongside James, whom he Cleveland.
Wade, a 12-time All-Star, has been friends with since “He’s a guy that’s proven,
is expected to clear waiv- they broke into the league not just individually, but
ers on Wednesday and together in 2003. When a team that won three
then join the Cavs, said James left Cleveland as championships,” Thomp-
the person who spoke on This April 8, 2017 photo shows Chicago Bulls guard Dwyane a free agent in 2010 and son said.
Wade (3) watches game action from the bench during the sec-
condition of anonymity ond half of an NBA basketball game against the Brooklyn Nets signed with Miami, much “He’s pretty familiar with
because the deal cannot in New York. of his reason for leaving his most of the guys on our
be completed until Wade Associated Press home state was a chance team. ... He’s always been
goes through the waiver “He brings another cham- in Jae Crowder and Jeff to play with Wade and a good locker room guy.
process. pionship pedigree, cham- Green, wing players who Chris Both. We’ve never heard any-
In Cleveland, Wade will be pionship DNA,” James said may help them defend the Wade played his first 13 thing bad.
reunited with James, his at Cleveland’s media day. Warriors if those teams get seasons in Miami, leaving in “It would be great for our
close friend, former Miami “He brings another player back to a fourth straight Fi- the summer of 2016 to sign team to have another
teammate and a player to the team who can get nals matchup. a two-year deal with the championship-mentality
he confided in before sign- guys involved, can make Thomas isn’t expected to Bulls. player.”
ing with his hometown Chi- plays and also has a great play until January because But the Bulls are in a rebuild- Wade has averaged 23.3
cago Bulls last year. basketball mind. ... I hope of a hip injury, but until he ing mode after trading Jim- points, 4.8 rebounds and
Wade and James won two we can bring him here. I returns the Cavs have plen- my Butler this summer, and 5.7 assists in 14 seasons.
NBA titles together during would love to have him.” ty of firepower in James, instead of paying Wade He averaged 18.3, 4.5 re-
four seasons with the Heat Once Wade completes the Wade, Rose and All-Star $23.8 million to play for bounds and 3.8 assists for
and will now chase anoth- waiver formality, he’ll be Kevin Love, who could what will likely be a strug- the Bulls.
er one with the Cavs, who the latest new, high-profile thrive as Cleveland’s No. 2 gling team they agreed One of the game’s pre-
have been revamped af- player to join the Cavs, scoring threat now that Ky- this weekend to buy him miere closers in the post-
ter losing to Golden State who traded for All-Star rie Irving is in Boston. out and let him find a bet- season, Wade has av-
in last season’s Finals. point guard Isaiah Thomas, Wade agreed to a con- ter situation. eraged 22.5 points, 5.3
On Monday, James said signed former league MVP tract buyout earlier this In an interview with AP, rebounds and 5.0 assists in
he would “love” to play Derrick Rose and added week with the Bulls, who Wade said that whatever 172 playoff games.q
again with Wade. two strong wing defenders signed him before last sea- decision he makes would ___
WADA suspends France’s only anti-doping lab

By JOHN LEICESTER Olympic Games in 2024. It
AP Sports Writer has previously been recog-
PARIS (AP) — The World An- nized for pioneering work
ti-Doping Agency has pro- in drug testing. It has never
visionally stopped France’s been suspended before,
only accredited anti-dop- Teoran said.
ing laboratory from car- The problem originated
rying out testing after a with a batch of 80 samples
positive sample it analyzed taken from bodybuilders,
from a bodybuilder con- he said. Many of the sam-
taminated two other sam- ples tested positive, and
ples with traces of a steroid. some were found to con-
The indefinite suspen- tain 17 different substanc-
sion means France’s anti- es, he said.
doping agency will have One sample with a particu-
to send blood and urine larly high concentrations
samples abroad for test- of a steroid — some 200
ing, until the facility in the times higher than generally
Paris suburb of Chatenay- found in positive cases —
Malabry is re-accredited left traces of the substance
by WADA. on a testing machine,
The French agency’s sec- which then contaminated
retary general, Mathieu two other samples, he said.
Teoran, told The Associ- Such machines are rinsed In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, the test kit for human urine doping testing with A
ated Press in an interview between samples to pre- and B sample bottles are posed for photographs in London.
Tuesday that it’s not clear vent contamination. But Associated Press
when the suspension might the cleaning procedure
be lifted. wasn’t sufficient this time, night, Aug. 25, and WADA day, he said.The fault has He said no athlete was
The lab will be used for drug he said.The lab detected was informed three days since been fixed and sam- wrongly punished because
testing when Paris hosts the the problem on a Friday later, on the following Mon- ples were analyzed again. of the contamination.q