BEIJING (AP) — Hello, everyone. I'm back for my third episode of "Inside the Mind of Dwyane Wade." The last time I ended in Las Vegas, where we were preparing for our trip to Beijing. There were a few stops along the way, Macau and Shanghai.

We departed around 1 a.m. on Sunday on Cathay Pacific Airlines. It was a great plane that had seats that turned into beds. Well at least 12 of us got those seats! When we got to our seats we all received something to sleep in let's just say I felt like Chris Tucker in "Rush Hour." The flight took about 14 hours so I spent that time sleeping and catching up on DVDs.

LAS VEGAS — Hey, welcome back to inside the mind of Dwyane Wade. It’s time to get real as Monday we head to China to begin our march to the gold medal. I can’t wait. I was part of the Olympic team in 2004. It was after my rookie season and myself, Carmelo Anthony, Carlos Boozer and LeBron (James) really didn’t play much. Being on a losing team and not being able to help much kind of tainted us. But it was great experience.

We’ve been committed to this team for the last four years, and we have the ultimate team. We have an experienced point guard in Jason (Kidd) who has already won a gold medal. We have the most talented player in the NBA, Kobe Bryant, then we have LeBron, who is right, we are going to win the gold medal. And don’t forget big Dwight Howard and one of the best point guards in the world in Chris Paul.

I'm speaking of myself in third person, but I want to give you guys the inside track about what's coming up for the team and how we spent our first weekend together in Vegas.

Now as a U.S. Olympian, you have a lot of obligations to be on time — and I was late for the first team meeting. I was 25 minutes late because I overslept. I had to run a little extra for that and I will make sure I'm on time from now on.