OT: NBA Thread - Oct 2024

[boog204]

I just don’t understand how it gets unveiled and no one who previewed this thing goes who the hell is that?

This... How could someone look at this and go, "yep... that's what we are going for." Would make sense to save everyone the embarrassment and just postpone or something. And this might be the worst one yet. The Cristiano Ronaldo one was terrible but there was at least some resemblance. This is some bizarre mix of Laurence Fishburne, Antoine Walker, and the Chiklis as the Commish.

 

[Northbound]

This best ever, but DWade’s is in the conversation.

 

[navery12]

In my next life I'd like to be one of these people who makes the statues. They are very expensive and seem to have about a 1% success rate

 

[HooperScooper]

Never really thought Charlie Villanueva was good enough to get a statue but good for him. Nice accolade.

 

[superjohn]

These bronze statues never seen to look good. I couldn't tell you why; they just don't work.

The Jordan one at the United Center is pretty cool and the Bird one at Indiana State looks good.

The Cristiano Ronaldo and the Wade one look ridiculous.

The Wade one looks like a scary version of Rodney Purvis to me.

 

[Chin Diesel]

It's like sculptors 2000 years ago were better than this.

 

[Hoophound]

He looks like an 85 year old man with no resemblance to DWade. It’s just so shockingly bad. I don’t know how this stuff happens.

Renaldo’s is bad but it least it looks like a cartoonish version of him. It’s totally embarrassing but kind of funny at least. Wade’s is just dumbfounding.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Creating a statue out of metal sure seems like a basic task for a laser or for making a 3D print.

 

[JohnFSilver]

I just don’t understand how it gets unveiled and no one who previewed this thing goes who the hell is that?

Someone should ask lebron if they want these guys to do his statue.

 

[JohnFSilver]

It's like sculptors 2000 years ago were better than this.

Like, were they? Or do we really not know how these people looked michaelangelos David could be way off

 

[formerlurker]

 

[Stinger92860]

It looks like a former Husky, looks nothing like Wade.

Dwyane Wade's Statue Was Recently Unveiled, And, Well...It's Something

I mean, it kind of looks like him if you close your eyes really tight.

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First thing I thought of was Gollum

 

[Chin Diesel]

Like, were they? Or do we really not know how these people looked michaelangelos David could be way off

I mean viewing the the sculptures and paintings in real life, they look just like the ones I see in books, so yeah they were better????

 

[Chin Diesel]

 

[ucp990411]

Does Dwayne Wade really deserve a statue?

 

[superjohn]

Does Dwayne Wade really deserve a statue?

Of course he does. Three NBA titles with Miami, finals MVP, and he's one of the best shooting guards ever.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Still not the worst statue I've seen. I give you the original Lucille Ball and the remake after public outrage....

Paulie Walnuts is that you?
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As for the Wade statue, they got his nose all wrong. His nose is his distinctive feature. I think 3D printers in the future will print perfect statues and put a lot if bad sculptors out of work.

 

[CL82]

Still not the worst statue I've seen. I give you the original Lucille Ball and the remake after public outrage....

Paulie Walnuts is that you?
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As for the Wade statue, they got his nose all wrong. His nose is his distinctive feature. I think 3D printers in the future will print perfect statues and put a lot if bad sculptors out of work.

The first one is the stuff of nightmares.

 

[aceboon]

one of the best athletes the game has ever seen turning into a high volume 3pt shooter before he even reaches the age of 25, that's not aesthetically pleasing to my eye

 

[fairfielder]

And someone was paid a pretty penny for that (un)likeness.

 

[superjohn]

one of the best athletes the game has ever seen turning into a high volume 3pt shooter before he even reaches the age of 25, that's not aesthetically pleasing to my eye

The league simply has to do something.

 

[GlastonTim]

You should at least be able to recognize who it is, these bad ones are atrocious.

 

[Deepster]

 

[dennismenace]

Still not the worst statue I've seen. I give you the original Lucille Ball and the remake after public outrage....

Paulie Walnuts is that you?
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As for the Wade statue, they got his nose all wrong. His nose is his distinctive feature. I think 3D printers in the future will print perfect statues and put a lot if bad sculptors out of work.

This looks like John Travolta with malocclusion.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Does Dwayne Wade really deserve a statue?

Maybe they had the foresight to build in a plausible deniability that reflected some internal ambivalence about the project.

More generally (and seriously), I'll offer that a couple years ago, after a beloved, ever-present resident from my former village/neighborhood had died in middle aged, a noted local sculptor was commissioned to do a bust that was - so far as I know - universally praised. There isn't a time that I encounter the sculpture without saying/thinking, "That's him." It would feel so wrong if that weren't the case, and the hat example demonstrates that it can be done successfully.

Wade's speech was humble & grateful, and even if he was more likely marveling about his blessed & accomplished life, he did get it right when he began with, "Who is that guy?"