<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> MIAMI (AP) -- Dwyane Wade is finally ready to play.</p> Miami's All-Star guard, recovered from offseason shoulder and knee surgeries, was on the active roster for the first time this season Wednesday night, when the Heat faced the Seattle SuperSonics.</p> "We have been as diligent and as careful, and he has been as diligent and as careful, as I think anybody could be with your primary asset," Heat coach Pat Riley said. "This isn't something that we haven't really thought long and hard about ... but there's got to be a time when you go out there."</p> Wade's return couldn't come at a better time for the Heat, who entered the night with a 1-6 record and are averaging an NBA-worst 83.3 points.</p> But having Wade -- who averaged a career-high 27.4 points last season -- is sure to help in both of those categories.</p> "It isn't going to be one man that's going to turn this around," Riley said, echoing a line Wade has used in recent days. "He will change the game for us, as he progresses in live action."</p> Wade was not in Miami's starting lineup.</p> Seattle coach P.J. Carlesimo said Miami "instantly" gets better with Wade, but he also cautioned that he didn't expect to see the 2006 NBA finals MVP back in top form right away.</p> "When you miss as much time as he missed, even as great as he his, I don't see him coming back and not missing a beat," Carlesimo said before Wednesday's game. "But when he comes back, I expect them to be what they have been, which is one of the best teams in the East."</p> Wade had surgery on his left shoulder and left knee May 15, and was told by doctors that the rehabilitation process would last six months. Thursday is the six-month anniversary of those procedures.</p> The shoulder -- which was dislocated in February -- no longer necessarily concerns Wade, who said earlier this month that it's stronger than his right one.</p> But the knee was Wade's primary source of worry over the past couple weeks. He had surgery to relieve the condition commonly called "jumper's knee" and said he didn't want to return to the Heat lineup until he was convinced that the joint could hold up to the rigors of NBA life.</p> Team doctors cleared him for full-contact practice earlier this month and Wade began those workouts Nov. 5, although he was able to participate in certain on-court drills since training camp began about a month earlier.</div></p> Source: Yahoo Sports</p>
Not good for Miami fans. DWade is back, but the Heat are down by 20 points right now to the Seattle Supersonics (0-8). Miami at home with the excitement of Wade returning playing against the worst team in the league and down by 20 points is a bad sign. Has this team thrown in the towel already on the season?</p>
