You’ll have to excuse the exclamation points, but this is breaking news: Dwyane Wade, young star for the Miami Heat, will be out the rest of the season.

The move was expected, although its timing — with so much of the season still to play — was mildly surprising. But Wade missed Miami’s game against the Golden State Warriors on Friday because of knee stiffness, telling Riley at the time that it pained him just to get out of bed.

“I don’t want to cut my minutes back,” Wade said, when asked why he still wanted to play this season. “If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. And whenever that day is, if it comes, I’ll just start preparing for the summer and rehabbing. But the day is not today.”

The day came four days later.

So now, Wade will turn to therapy in hopes of getting his knee back to top form.

This news is especially disappointing for the Heat because of their recent surge and sudden playoff push. And when I say “recent surge” and “sudden playoff push,” I mean “losing 16 of their last 18″ and maybe not even being good enough to make it to the Sweet 16 right now.