If your wife makes a suggestion she usually has a point.

When Dwyane Wade's wife Gabrielle Union gave her husband some helpful advice during NBA free agency, he took it.

Wade is a smart man.

"I was in Spain on vacation and I remember talking to my wife before I talked to Jimmy [Butler]," Wade told CSN Chicago's Mark Schanowski in an exclusive interview.

"She asked me about Chicago and I said, 'Baby I don't know how open Jimmy is going to be to it.' And she said, 'You never know. You should reach out to him."'

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Now good advice only becomes great advice when the person receiving it acts on it. What happened next surprised Wade.

"I reached out and said, 'Can you send Jimmy my info and tell him I want to talk to him?' And he called me immediately."

"I was very open and honest with him. You know, I'm 34. I'm very open and honest now about everything. I said, 'You know Jimmy, I wouldn't think you would want me here because the light is shining on you now in this city."'

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"Sometimes people have a hard time with sharing the light and he was right away saying, 'Listen, I want to win...I know what you bring to the game and I know we can win together and I want you here,"' Wade recalled.

Wade then came to a realization.

"From there, that's when [the Bulls] got real serious for me."

Days later, Wade signed a two-year $47 million deal with the Bulls ending his 13-year run with the Miami Heat, where he won multiple NBA titles and was a 12-time all-star.

So you could say Union drew up the play, coaching her husband to reaching out to Butler, who most certainly gets the assist for his pitch on the phone to Wade.

In the end, Chicago wins and Bulls fans have an excting new tandem of scorers to watch next season.