‘Who is that guy?’ Sculpture of Dwyane Wade has basketball fans confused

Dwyane Wade, 13-time NBA all-star and Miami Heat alum, is present everlastingly immortalized successful bronze, but galore hoops fans are scratching their heads aft his statue was unveiled implicit the weekend.

He’s the archetypal Heat subordinate to ever person a statue made successful his likeness, and it honours his iconic “This is my house” solemnisation from his team’s double-overtime triumph against the Chicago Bulls successful 2009.

And portion those who attended the Miami unveiling implicit the play applauded the commissioned piece, galore online said they’re struggling to spot the resemblance.

Some observers remarked the statue much resembled Laurence Fishburne and his quality Morpheus from The Matrix alternatively than Wade.

Another said they deliberation the statue looks much similar Kelsey Grammer.

“That’s crazy. I can’t judge that. Who is that guy?” Wade said, per CNN, aft the statue was unveiled.

“This is crazy,” helium continued. “I wanted to consciousness this. Life goes by truthful accelerated and it’s precise uncommon that we get to consciousness things due to the fact that we’re ever disconnected to the adjacent thing.

“So I didn’t hole overmuch due to the fact that I wanted to consciousness this, man. I wanted to look astatine it,” helium added, again turning astir to respect the statue.

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Wade is clearly precise proud to person the eight-foot statue lasting successful his honour extracurricular Kaseya Center, contempt galore feeling it wasn’t a slam dunk; since Sunday’s unveiling he’s been posting to Instagram and his Instagram story, sharing however humbled helium is.

“I was conscionable like, ‘That’s beautiful,” Wade said of the statue during a quality league Sunday, according to the Miami Herald. “I’m biased, but I deliberation it’s one of the champion statues that’s been created due to the fact that of what it represents for america and for me.”

Will Manso, Heat vigor big and reporter, defended the statue, telling his followers connected X that it “looks overmuch amended than successful pictures,” and that the quality changes if you’re looking up astatine the statue versus gazing astatine it head-on.

And portion Wade himself seems unbothered by the criticism, others can’t assistance but gully comparisons to different wide panned sports statues unveiled successful caller years, including the 2017 bust of shot fable Cristiano Ronaldo, which ended up being 1 of the most mocked sculptures successful caller history and resulted successful the sculptor being fixed a changeable astatine redemption.

The pursuing year, a plaque of U.S. shot prima Brandi Chastain was besides widely criticized erstwhile it was unveiled for the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame, with galore commenting that it made her look similar Bill Belichick oregon Babe Ruth.