CHICAGO -- Dwyane Wade is confident that he's going to win a World Series bet he has with his good friend, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James.
Wade, who will play his first regular-season game as a Chicago Bull on Thursday night, bet James the Chicago Cubs would defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series. Wade revealed the first part of the bet on Tuesday night in a video posted on Uninterrupted, saying the loser of the bet had to show up to the winner's home arena in a full uniform of the winner's team. If the Cubs win, James would have to show up to the first Bulls-Cavs game in Chicago wearing a full Cubs uniform. If the Indians win, Wade would wear an Indians uniform to the first Bulls-Cavs game in Cleveland.
"I feel very good about being 1-1," Wade said after Thursday's shootaround. "It was tough because we made the bet and they was up 1-0 right away. But we're in a good place right now."
Wade explained that the loser of the bet needs to dress himself to the nines, making sure all the baseball details were covered.
"It's your job to get your own," Wade said of the jersey. "But you got to come in looking like one of the players, for sure. I'm talking about glove, bat, whatever you decide."
Wade also revealed a second part to the wager between the close friends.
"I haven't thought about [the uniform] because I don't plan on losing," Wade said. "We haven't thought that far. We've got a little time before we play each other. But [the bet] is just something friendly. We've got two parts to the bet. That was one, the friendly one, that we thought was cool and then we've got another one where we send each other certain cases of wine depending on who wins or loses as well."
James and many of his Cavs teammates were in attendance during Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday night, and Wade is hopeful he will be in attendance on Friday night during Game 3 at Wrigley Field.
As for his Bulls debut against the Boston Celtics on Thursday night, Wade, who signed with the Bulls over the summer after 13 years with the Miami Heat, sounds excited about the atmosphere.
"I got a lot of my family that didn't even show up, they didn't even want to see the preseason," said Wade, who expects to play 30-32 minutes to start. "They didn't want to hear my name being called yet. So tonight will be pretty special -- for me and for my family. My family will all get to be here and get to hear my name being called here. We grew up Chicago Bulls fans. It's cool from there, and outside of there I just want to go out and win a ballgame. Figure out a way to come out here against a very good team and get a win to start this thing off right."
