Cavaliers' Dwyane Wade briefs teammates on his dislike for birds

Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Dwyane Wade has some sound reasoning when it comes to his explanation for not liking birds.

Cliff notes: It's because he got pooped on.

The Cleveland Cavaliers' veteran guard has spoken about his relationship before with the flying creatures. He had the discussion again on Sunday, while riding on the Cavaliers' team bus. Cleveland beat the Orlando Magic on Saturday in Orlando and have another road game at 8 p.m. Monday against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Cavaliers forward Channing Frye recorded Wade's conversation on his Snapchat account.

"Got his [expletive]!!! Why DWade doesn't like birds," Frye wrote in the caption for the video of his teammate.

Wade went on a tangent about getting pooped on by birds while he was attending Marquette University. The 35-year-old is now in his 15th NBA season. He had several run-ins with birds while attending school in Milwaukee.

"They say it's good luck and I do believe it," Wade said on Snapchat. "I got [pooped] on my first year of college, my first year playing. I wasn't in the NBA then. It works."

"I feel like I got [pooped] on like four or five times. At school, to go to where we stay, like our dorms or whatever, we had to walk through this field. And everyday there was a field full of birds and they feed them there. So you know when we all together we [scaring motion] and the birds move. So one day I'm all by myself. So I said let me try. So they flew up and flew back down. They attacked me dawg."

Wade previously spoke about his luck with birds on social media, giving them a little bit of credit for Marquette's Final Four run in 2003 and making him the No. 5 overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.

"I was broke growing up, went to college, got a scholarship, was always good at basketball I guess, had to sit out that year because I ain't pass my ACT," Wade said in 2016 on Snapchat. "So not a lot of things were going well for me, next year I was going to practice, I got [pooped] on right on top of my head. I had a bald head at the time, that [expletive] was disgusting, had to keep walking to practice, my teammates was laughing at me. Long story short, I had a very good year. My team was ranked within the first week of the season, and we went to the NCAA tournament. It was a very good year, things started to turn around for me. [Poop] on my head don't sound too bad."

"So this is my second year playing now, walking to class one day, [pooped] right on top of my head. I had a hat on that time. Thank you, it saved me, but my T-shirt was all messed up, so I had to go back and change, but I got [pooped] on my second year of school. I ended up being All-American that year, ended up going to the Final Four, ended up getting in the draft that year, and I ended up getting drafted No. 5."

Wade ended that video by looking up at the sky and asking birds to poop on him -- for some more good luck.