Dwyane Wade fills new Nike spot with dread

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This Nike spot from Wieden + Kennedy, casting Dwyane Wade as a defender's ultimate bad dream, is a faux-spooky visual feast that's more compelling than most horror-movie trailers. The scary-movie details are transported to the basketball court with terrific effect and plunge the proceedings into a deliciously demonic realm. We've got dancing tiles on the parquet floor, an evil fog that's building in intensity, D-Wade's eerily advancing shadow and, in what's never a good sign, his sinister glowing eyes.

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