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Dwyane Wade still believes his knee will be ready for the Beijing Olympics.
The Miami Heat guard, who missed the final 21 games of last season because of chronic soreness in his surgically repaired left knee, said Sunday that he's been playing 5-on-5 games for about a week with "no problems."
Wade is spending much of his offseason rehabilitating in Chicago, with eyes on both getting a spot on the Beijing-bound team -- USA Basketball will finalize its Olympic roster later this month -- and ensuring that he's fully healthy when the Heat open training camp in late September.
"Just trying to get my timing back because I haven't played since March," Wade said at a promotion for the annual Zo's Summer Groove, a charity event in South Florida that Heat teammate Alonzo Mourning has asked Wade to help headline this July. "But 5-on-5 went well and I'm looking forward to next week, going back to my second week of 5-on-5 and the competition picking up more. I'm doing my job of trying to bring more competition down to Chicago."
Last week's wild rumors out of Chicago suggesting Wade could be traded to his hometown Bulls didn't surprise him, either.
"It isn't anything but talk," said Wade, who did his best to shoot down the rumors last week as well. "My focus is what we're going to do next year for the Heat, what we're going to do in the draft, what we're going to do during free agency to get us better."
