After coming off the bench for the first time as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers and now with his old team, the Miami Heat, Dwyane Wade is pondering his imminent future for the first time in his NBA career.

The three-time champion admitted that at the end of this season, he'll be forced to go back home and evaluate the choices for his player career, even if that includes retirement.

“I don’t know,” Wade said, according to Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald. “I have told everybody around me that I am taking it after this season and go from there. It’s the first year I’ve ever went into the summer with that mind-set. I always went into it as a free agent or opting out of a deal to get another deal.”

“This is the first summer I can say I’m just going into the summer and see how I feel and see the position this organization is in and go from there. I’m not really concerned with it, honestly. I’m cool with whatever I decide to do. It will be my decision.”

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Wade's aching body has noticeably started to catch up to him after many years of taking reckless contact going hard to the rim and the bruising battles in the playoffs.

The man formerly known as Flash is no longer the dazzling on-ball master that will make defenders shake on their sneakers, rather a step slower and unable to torch teams for 20-something points in a nightly basis.

Wade is back with the team that once drafted him, and without his old role — it might be time for him to decide how and when he'd like to hang them up.