"If I wanted it to look like me, I'd just stand outside the arena and y'all can take photos," Wade said Monday. "It don't need to look like me. It's the artistic version of a moment that happened that we're trying to cement."
That moment was the end of a game against the Chicago Bulls in March 2009, when he made a shot to win at the buzzer of double overtime, hopped up onto a courtside table and yelled, "This is my house." The position of his hands in the statue is reminiscent of that moment. But it's the face that has generated almost all of the feedback.