Is Dwyane Wade Next After Dallas Mavericks Unveil Statue Of Dirk Nowitzki?

The Dallas Mavericks repaid retired star Dirk Nowitizki for his loyalty by unveiling a statue of him Sunday outdoors the world. 

It raised the query of if the Miami Warmth will do the identical for Dwyane Wade, who, like Nowitzki, is the best participant in franchise historical past? The Mavericks offered the statue earlier than their Christmas Day sport towards the Los Angeles Lakers. 

It was a reproduction of Nowitzki’s trademark transfer, the fadeaway one-legger that produced so many factors throughout his Corridor of Fame profession. 

“It needed to be a fadeaway one-legger,” Lakers ahead LeBron James stated. “It needed to be. No query about it. Dirk is a legend. He is an icon. I believe he is the best worldwide participant ever. I put him proper there with Manu [Ginobili]. However what he introduced right here, what he dropped at this metropolis … that boy was chilly, man. Dirk was chilly.”

The statue additionally had the phrases “Loyalty by no means fades away.” It was tribute to Nowitzki enjoying all 21 seasons with the Mavericks. 

“I simply sort of sat down, like, ‘What do folks affiliate you with in Dallas?’” Nowitzki stated. “It was these two issues. It was the fadeaway and the loyalty. We sort of mixed that. It was only a enjoyable incontrovertible fact that it was 21 letters for the 21 years.”

The Mavericks have additionally named one of many streets outdoors the world after Nowitzki. An analogous motion was began for Wade two years in the past about renaming Biscayne Boulevard after him. And certainly there shall be talks of inserting a Wade statue outdoors the world, becoming a member of him with the likes of Nowitzki, Michael Jordan (Chicago), Dominique Wilkins (Atlanta) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles). 

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