Charles Barkley trashes 'awful' Dwyane Wade statue: 'Gotta take that thing down'
Charles Barkley was in savage mode while reacting to Dwyane Wade's new Miami Heat statue the team unveiled in front of Kaseya Center on Sunday.
During TNT’s Tip-Off show on Tuesday night, Barkley called Wade’s bronze statue — that many suggested online looks nothing like him — “ugly” and awful,” and said the Heat should remove it.
“It’s a great honor, but they gotta take that thing down,” Barkley said.
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Kenny Smith yelled “no!” and explained that Wade’s face on the statue — a rendition of his celebratory moment when he hit a buzzer-beater shot to beat the Bulls in double overtime in 2009 — was just him being animated.
“Not animated,” Barkley replied. “If you made an ugly statue that’s what it would look like. That thing is awful.”