The revealing of basketball legend Dwyane Wade’s statue in Miami over the weekend was applauded by these in attendance and the NBA, however folks on-line weren’t so type after discovering it exhausting to see a transparent resemblance.

Wade, a three-time NBA champion and 13-time NBA All-Star, was honored by the Miami Warmth throughout a ceremony on Sunday after enjoying for the workforce for 14 seasons.

“That is nothing I ever thought I would expertise,” Wade instructed the group through the ceremony held exterior the Kaseya Heart. “I did not play for this. I did not decide up the basketball for this. I picked up a basketball to vary my household’s life.”

Flanked by his spouse, actor Gabrielle Union, Wade stated after the disclosing that “it’ll take some time to course of this. However I simply really feel glad. I really feel grateful, I really feel grateful, I really feel blessed and I am so appreciative.”

The NBA chimed in on Wade’s accomplishment in an X publish saying, “That’s your home certainly; eternally.”

‘Miami Warmth did Dwyane Wade soiled’

Whereas the NBA and Wade praised the statue and honor, many on social media didn’t and mocked the sculpture’s look, even likening it to the 42-year-old’s former teammate Antoine Walker and the actors Laurence Fishburne, Delroy Lindo and Kelsey Grammer.