![]() ![]() Being locked in for the next six years kind of helped that." And when the commercial ends you see I was trying to get out of the bathroom. It's also just a tiny bit bold - a coveted player joking in a national campaign about a trade demand. And then Charles Barkley, Spike Lee, Steve Nash, everyone's seeing this. ![]() "I send this 'get me out of here" video and everyone says oh my god, D-Wade wants a trade. Wade makes and shares a video with his phone (something Wade says he actually is tech-savvy enough to do in real life) saying "Get me out of here." In the narrative of the ad, it's widely misconstrued as a trade demand. ![]() One of the spots, for T-Mobile, features Wade locked in a hotel bathroom. "So when I found out he was one of the candidates I was like oh yeah, perfect." Wade says he'll work with Lee anytime: "I had worked with him previously. I'm not going to have them on the set forever. "I know them," he says, "they are friends. Lee - whose student thesis film included a rhyme about Converse, and who had a relationship with Nike dating to the Mars Blackmon character in his first major motion picture "She's Gotta Have It" - says making commercials with NBA players is a natural. ESPN WEDNESDAY BASKETBALL COMMERCIALS TVThe director of "Do the Right Thing," "Malcolm X" and the chilling Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke" doesn't think that anymore.īut he's still making NBA-themed TV commercials, including two that debut on Christmas Day, starring Dwyane Wade and Charles Barkley. Spike Lee once wrote that early in his career, he was probably better known as a Knick fan, and as Mars Blackmon in those Michael Jordan commercials, than as a filmmaker. ![]()
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