Back then, they talked of finishing in the top four in the division, and linked themselves with high-profile players like Brazil's World Cup-winning attacker Ronaldinho.
Police said they linked Wade after the fact to a high-profile car theft in March 2011 in which a man rappelled from the roof of a San Francisco auto dealership into the showroom and roared off in a canary-yellow Lamborghini Spyder Gallardo.