MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade still isnt totally ready to leave Miami.He felt he had no choice.The soon-to-be Chicago Bulls guard offered his side Saturday of the process that led to the end of his 13 years with the Miami Heat and deciding to play for his hometown team. Wade insisted he has the utmost respect and admiration for Heat President Pat Riley -- who drafted him in 2003, coached him to his first title in 2006 and now played a role that led to him leaving a franchise thats clearly in transition.And despite his anger about the breakup, he made clear that he will never bash the Heat or Riley.I love Pat Riley, Wade said. Hes been someone whos been a figurehead in my life since I got drafted here at 21. But at the same time, he has a job to do. He has a different hat to wear. That hat sometimes is not to be my best friend. That hat is to be the president of an organization and to be a businessman. And it sucks. You know somebody so well, you guys love each other, but the business side comes out.Im not saying that weve hugged and cried and shed tears at this moment. But I love Pat. And I will always love Pat. And, you know, I know he feels the same way about me.Since Wade announced Wednesday that hell sign with the Bulls, hes felt countless emotions. He went past the arena the Heat call home Friday, blown away by the tribute the team was paying to him on external video screens. He couldnt believe how many people were lined up to buy merchandise with his name and number on the back. He choked up when he saw the full-page ad the Heat took out for him in South Florida newspapers.Moments like this, it sucks, Wade said. The business side of the sport, sometimes it just sucks. Thats what were dealing with.Miami offered just over $40 million for two years with hopes he stayed. Chicago landed him with a contract worth about $47 million for two years.Wade was in a hotel room in New York when he made the decision to leave Miami, and before long he started seeing the video montages of his Heat career coming across screens.It seemed funereal.They started playing tribute videos and Ive assumed thats what its going to be like when Im no longer on this Earth, Wade said. Thats what it felt like. It felt like it really was the end of life.And I guess in a sense its the end of life in Miami -- as of now.Wade won three titles with the Heat, leads the franchise in plenty of stat categories, was a 12-time All-Star in a Miami uniform. And there will be undoubtedly be speculation about a return one day, which is not out of the question. The Heats ad thanking Wade included these words: Well leave a key under the mat for you.This aint the ending of this book, but we got through a lot of chapters of this book, Wade said. And this is a best-seller, for sure.His sons and nephew that hes raising have mixed emotions about the move. His nephew was particularly leery, since he moved from Chicago to Miami for a better life -- and now hes going back to a city that Wade knows has big problems with crime, particularly violent crime.At the end of the day, they will understand as they get older they will have to make decisions for their families, Wade said. Some decisions are hard. ... Some are going to be seamless and easy.This one fell into the hard column.He drove around Miami on Friday with his hand out the window, grabbing at the warm air that hell think about when in frigid Chicago this winter. Hell be in Chicago on Monday for a physical. He then heads to Los Angeles for the ESPY awards and business commitments before going to China for a week of promotional appearances.As of now, the plan is for the Bulls to introduce him July 29.So that will be Hello, Chicago.If Wade gets his way, there will never truly be a Farewell, Miami.This is never goodbye to South Florida, Wade said. The words, `Heat Lifer, Im a Heat for life. Ill always be a Heat. Wholesale Jets Jerseys . Capitals head coach Adam Oates said Ovechkin was injured in the first period against the Vancouver Canucks on Monday and clarified it was not a head injury. Wesley Walker Jersey . LOUIS -- St. http://www.cheapnewyorkjetsjerseysauthentic.com/?tag=authentic-ladainian-tomlinson-jersey . Traditional contenders Brazil, Greece and Turkey drew the other three spots to complete the 24-team field for this summers tournament in Spain, basketball governing body FIBA announced Saturday at its meeting in Barcelona. 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McGraw returns most of the core from a team that went 33-2 last season.She was happy for the compliment, but found the ranking a little high considering her team is coming off one of its most disappointing seasons in a few years and didnt reach the Final Four for the first time in six years.Id rather we earned it, McGraw said. Were coming off the worst season weve had in six years, it seems odd that were preseason No. 1. You should have to earn it.McGraw has had a bunch of very good teams over the last 15 seasons that never reached the top spot. There always seemed to be someone just a little bit better.Other teams have had good teams, too. Connecticut has had some pretty good teams in there, McGraw said. There was a year when yeah maybe, Stanford beat Connecticut, but then South Carolina went to No. 1.Baylor was a close second, four points behind the Irish. The Lady Bears garnered 12 first-place votes.Being preseason No. 2 in the country brings great recognition to our school and our program, Lady Bears coach Kim Mulkey said. We welcome it. We have a schedule, nonconference and conference, that will be most challenging early in the season. Its one that I think will help us late in the season.UConn, which has won 75 consecutive games and four straight national championships, was third. The Huskies had been the No. 1 team for the last 24 weeks.I dont think we should be No. 1, UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. I dont think we should be anywhere near the teams that almost went to the Final Four and have everybody back and have all that experience and all that talent. Weve been in those situations before and were not there now. So, wherever they put us, Im OK.South Carolina and Louisville round out the top five teams. 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The Tigers reached the NCAAs for the first time in a decade and return star Sophia Cunningham. Unfortunately, they already lost second-leading scorer and top rebounder Jordan Frericks and reserve Bri Porter for the season with knee injuries.MISSING TRIANGLE: Duke is not ranked in the preseason for the first time since 1994-95. The Blue Devils arent the only member of Tobacco Road absent from the poll. North Carolina and North Carolina State arent ranked either. Its only the second time in the 41-year history of the poll that none of the three are in the preseason rankings. It also happened in 1986.HOOSIER HYSTERIA: Indiana is ranked for only the third time in the programs history. The No. 23 Hoosiers are coming into the season after equaling a school record with 21 victories and winning the teams first NCAA game. Indiana is led by junior Tyra Buss, who averaged 18.8 points last season.---AP Sports Writer Pat Eaton-Robb contributed to this story from Storrs, Connecticut.---More AP college basketball http://collegebasketball.ap.org ' ' '