Link:Heat coach Pat Riley offered a timetable Monday, but no specific update, on Dwyane Wade's approach with his dislocated left shoulder.
Wade is scheduled to join the team today in Washington for its visit to the White House to commemorate its 2006 NBA championship.
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The fourth-year guard then will return to South Florida, where Riley said Wade is scheduled to receive a second opinion Wednesday on the injury suffered Feb. 21 in Houston.
Wade's options are six weeks of vigorous rehabilitation and a possible return for the final games of the regular season, or surgery that would sideline him at least four months. Even with rehab, there is a high probability of another dislocation.
The entire team, including those not on the team last season, is scheduled to meet this afternoon with President Bush.
It is Riley's first visit with a championship team since the Reagan administration.
"I'm not a very political man," said Riley, a registered Democrat. "My politics are more down the center.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience and you get your picture taken for the right reasons with your teammates and it's sort of like a ritual."
When it comes to the visit, Shaquille O'Neal might have some explaining to do. Of his selection as an All-Star starter, the Heat center said recently, "I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in."
