Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade has had a lot of battles with the Boston Celtics during his legendary playing career.

During the Big Three era with LeBron James and Chris Bosh, Wade used to get viciously booed by Celtics fans when the Heat came to Boston.

The rivalry Miami's Big Three had with the Celtics' Big Three of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen was intense and it only got more fierce when Allen signed with the Heat in the summer of 2012 as a free agent.

Still, Celtics fans appreciate greatness when they see it. When the Heat came to Boston earlier in the season, the crowd at the TD Garden gave Wade a huge ovation, something the future Hall of Famer didn't expect given his history against the Celtics:

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Wade and the Heat are in Boston on Monday. It is Wade's final regular-season game at the TD Garden and he will surely get a standing ovation from the crowd.

Wade and Miami have bigger things on their minds, though. The Heat are fighting for their playoff lives right now. They enter Monday in the eighth and final playoff spot in the East with six games left in the season.