Dwyane Wade is opening up about why he and his family made the move to California from Florida.

The 41-year-old former NBA star, who played for Miami Heat as a point guard, spoke to People about leaving Florida behind for the opposite side of the country with wife, Gabrielle Union, and their shared children.

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It wasn’t because of his lack of love for Florida, Dwyane says, but more about the right move for his family at the time.

“When we had to decide what the next step was for our family as we were all coming together a little bit more, we had to think about our family and how it looked and how we wanted our kids to feel, what we want them to see on a daily basis.”

He added that “Florida just wasn’t it for us at that time anymore.”

Dwyane does point out that the California is a better state as a whole to raise daughter, Zaya, who came out as transgender in 2020.

It was the “ideal place because of everything that it represents and the community that’s represented out here.”

Just last month Dwyane was inducted to the NBA Hall of Fame.