{"id":490897,"date":"2026-06-23T03:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490897\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:29:13","slug":"dwyane-wade-opens-up-on-mental-health-struggles-after-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490897\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwyane Wade opens up on mental health struggles after retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/dwyane-wade-says-he-started-therapy-after-retiring-from-nba-11998944\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on People\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">Dwyane Wade shared that retiring from basketball \u2014 a sport he had played his entire life \u2014 took an emotional toll. \u201cOnce you retire, that&#8217;s when, you know \u2026 you really go through a moment, a time of depression,\u201d he said.<\/a> \u201cAnd it&#8217;s how you decide to handle that depression which is going to determine your next step because, you know \u2014 since I was 5 years old \u2014 that&#8217;s what I did, played basketball. And then I was really good at it. So now you&#8217;re coming out of this world and \u2026 now I got to get another skill,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/dwyane-wade-says-he-started-therapy-after-retiring-from-nba-11998944\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on People\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dwyane Wade shared that retiring from basketball \u2014 a sport he had played his entire life \u2014 took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[124958,134,554,555,111,139,69,212940,212941,212942,239110,128359,246049,128362,127435,127111,151725,124961],"class_list":["post-490897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-accessfree","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sourcehoops-hype","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-tagdwyane-wade","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagmental-health","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}