Dwyane Wade and Ex-Wife Siohvaughn Funches’ Ups and Downs Through the Years: A Timeline

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After falling in love as teenagers, Dwyane Wade and Siohvaughn Funches’ relationship fizzled nearly five years after getting married.The NBA star and Funches initially connected in high school in their Illinois hometown and navigated their relationship as they went off to college.

Wade and the AWOW Women entrepreneur eventually wed in 2002, one year before the basketball player entered the NBA’s annual draft.“I wanted to strike first.

I wasn’t a big name in the class like those guys, so I needed something to separate myself or something that would put me on their level and winning a championship at 24 was that to me,” Wade said of his athletic achievements on the “Point Forward” podcast in August 2022.As the former athlete’s career started to climb, his family also grew.

Wade and Funches welcomed son Zaire in February 2002 and daughter Zaya, who publicly came out as transgender in 2020, in May 2007. (The former Chicago Bulls star also shares son Xavier, born in November 2013, with Aja Metoyer and daughter Kaavia, born in November 2018, with wife Gabrielle Union.)“I think when it comes to your kids, I think different journeys and different places in life you see the different parents,” Wade exclusively told Us Weekly in June 2022 of fatherhood. “You see the different personalities come out of different parents and so I think they have a little bit of everyone in them and you just look for your percentage and you hope that the good percentage of you come out.”Shortly after Wade and Funches became parents of two, they decided to go their separate ways.