The school shooting in Parkland was a tragic event to say the least, one that left 17 innocent people dead and affected the entire United States on the deepest of levels. The affect has reached the NBA, specifically Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade.

One of the victims of the tragedy was Joaquin Oliver, a 17-year-old who had recently become a naturalized citizen of the U.S. His parents recently revealed that he was buried wearing a Wade jersey.

When Wade heard about this days later, he was overcome with emotion. He addressed it to the media for the first time on Monday, per Ira Winderman of the Sun Sentinel.

“You really can't put that in words,” Wade said in a measured tone while seated at the west end of the team's practice court on the second level of AmericanAirlines Arena. “You hurt for the family and if you're able to get an opportunity to speak to them, you just try to hope that the time where he was alive, that you were able to bring some form of joy to his life and something memorable, a story that you guys can talk about.

“I don't even know the word for it. Like I re-tweeted on Twitter, I said, ‘You're going to make me cry.' It’s emotional even thinking about that, that his parents felt that burying him in my jersey is something that he wanted. I take a lot of pride in what I've done in this state and what I’ve meant for the youth, so I appreciate that.”

There's no telling what Wade was feeling when he heard about the burial and in his comments to the media. It's obviously a situation from a fan that he and no one else wishes had ever happened.

Wade conducted himself with class and it says a lot about him that the family of Oliver made that gesture.