Former pro athletes are usually done with the pro part of their lives by their late 30s and have to find other things to do. Some coach. Some teach. Some become analysts on TV.
Dwyane Wade actually did basketball analyst work for TNT for three years after he retired from the NBA in 2019 after a Hall of Fame career. Though he stepped down from that role last year, he has kept his relationship with Warner Bros. Discovery by hosting the game show “The Cube,” which returned for a second season on sister station TBS earlier this month.
In “The Cube,” which is shot in metro Atlanta, two players tackle increasingly difficult physical and mental challenges in a small translucent cube with the chance to win up to $250,000. There are 60 different types of games to choose from, many involving finishing a task in a particular amount of time, memorizing particular patterns or quickly learning a puzzle on the fly.
