Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade admits he's going to go to therapy with his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, once he's retired from the NBA.

Basketball is all Wade knows. Now that basketball is going to be in the past, Wade, the best player in Heat franchise history, wants some guidance on how to live the rest of his life, something a lot of athletes struggle with once they stop playing.

“I'll be in therapy. Seriously,” Wade told Rachel Nichols of ESPN. “I meant it, it is going to be a big change. I told my wife, I said, ‘I need to do therapy, and we need to do a little bit.'

“I was always against someone that don't know me telling me how to live my life or giving me instructions. But I need someone to talk to about it. Because it is a big change. Even though I got a long life to live, other great things I can accomplish and do, it's not this. So it's going to be different.”

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Wade and Union had a baby girl at the beginning of the season, so Wade will obviously be doing a lot of dad things once he's retired.

It's good that Wade knows he has to receive some type of counseling once he embarks on his post-basketball career.