Dwyane Wades surprising influence on statue that no one thinks looks like him

Dwyane Wade might not agree with all the statue jokes.Th Heat star was heavily involved in the creative process of his bronze statue the Miami Heat unveiled in front of Kaseya Center on Sunday — that many suggested online looks nothing like him.Wade — who was the fifth overall pick by the Heat in the 2003 NBA Draft and went on to win three championships with Miami — met with Rotblatt Amrany Studio sculptors Omri Amrany and Oscar León on four different occasions for hours in Chicago, and offered his feedback throughout the making of it, he told the Miami Herald.The Hall of Fame guard, whose No.

3 jersey was retired by the Heat in 2020, explained that he had the sculptors measure his face after they initially got the dimensions wrong on his face.Fox Sports 1 personality Rachel Nichols confirmed that Wade did indeed have a big say in how he appeared in the statue.“I mean, look, I think it looks clearly how Dwyane Wade sees himself,” Nichols said during an appearance on “The Dan Le Batard Show” on Monday.

“That’s not a dig, because he had the most input on this and in the end, it’s for him.“He said he visited the statue maker four different times.

He said that one of the visits — he told me — he’s like, ‘They didn’t get the distance between the bottom of my nose and my lip correctly.The ratio was off.

“So I had them measure in between the bottom of my nose and the lip so they could get that exactly right.’ So if he’s doing that level of detail, it tells me that the rest of it, he was like, ‘Oh yeah, this is it.'” Le Batard went on to joke that Nichols was one of few people defending the 8-foot statue after many said it didn’t look like Wade.“I’m not defending the statue, I’m just saying that Dwyane likes the statue,” Nichols said.

“It’s his statue… he had the biggest hand in it of anyone.” Wade — the all-time leader in points, assists, steals and games played for the Heat — called the making of the ...