"The irony amid the yapping between commercial collaborators Charles Barkley and Dwyane Wade, with Barkley seemingly sniping at the Miami Heat at just about every opportunity, is that the two share a common ground.

Each has seen the light when it has come to a more fit lifestyle. With Barkley, it's the current Weight Watchers campaign. With Wade it's a lifestyle makeover that just happens to tie into the new Gatorade campaign of internal fitness.

But while Barkley last week mocked the notion of getting paid to lose weight, believing his microphone was not live during TNT's telecast between the Heat and Atlanta Hawks, Wade said nutrition has become an NBA life lesson as he closes in on his Jan. 17 30th birthday and awaits his return from his current foot ailment."