From neglecting his two young children, to cutting Siohvaughn off financially and mid-sentence, D-Wade perpetuates the stigmata that athletes like Kobe Bryant and Matt Leinart have worked so hard at developing in the sporting world.

The Miami Herald reports:

In legal papers, she alleges he abandoned his children, committed adultery, and infected her with an unspecified sexually transmitted disease. She wants the names of ”all of his sexual partners” during their six-year marriage.

Dwyane, named a ”Father of the Year” in 2007 by the National Father’s Day Committee, has gone ”months” without seeing his boys, Siohvaughn says. His ”failure to spend time with them . . . has resulted in the children at times being afraid of him; in fact, Zion . . . does not recognize or know Dwyane.” She wants sole custody, and support.

She also says she has suffered ”grievous physical, emotional and mental injury” from the STD, diagnosed in the fall of ‘07. (The infection is not HIV or a ”killer thing,” sources say.) Dwyane and his ”paramour or paramours” are liable, she alleges.

Part of me wants to add the word “unfortunately” to the beginning of the quoted parenthetical–at least that way she wouldn’t have to live with an std…