Dwyane Wade spoke out to defend a recently unveiled statue of himself outside of the Kaseya Center two days ago… after fans claimed the statue looked nothing like him.
Dwyane Wade’s Heat career
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-15 seasons
-3 championships
-All-time leader in points, games, assists, and steals
-1 completely unrecognizable statue
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In the viral video clip, Wade also seemed surprised by the statue and said “That’s crazy. I can’t believe that. Who is that guy?”
Dwyane Wade:
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“Who is that guy?”
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DWade just taking it all in at his statue unveiling… pic.twitter.com/XnyahQzIld
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But after the unveiling, Wade spoke to reporters and claimed that he did not need the statue to look like him, calling it an “artistic expression of the moment.
“If I wanted it to look like me, I’d just stand outside the arena and y’all can take photos,” he said. “It don’t need to look like me. It’s the artistic version of a moment that happened that we’re trying to cement.”
Dwyane Wade reacts to his viral statue and people saying it doesn't look like him
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“Yeah I have an iPhone… social media… is about opinions… Send memes. We don’t care. It was a special moment… It don’t need to look like me. It’s an artistic version…"
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He continued, “I care, but I don’t,” Wade said of the viral response. “The social media world is about opinions. Everyone has an opinion. Everyone, use y’all opinions. Please talk more about us. Talk more about a statue, come on down to see it, take some photos, send some memes. We don’t care.”
You can ccheck out what the artist had to say about the statue’s reception below:
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