Heat unveil statue of Dwyane Wade outside the front of team's arena

Dwyane Wade is now nan first Miami Heat subordinate pinch a statue extracurricular nan team’s arena

MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade is now nan first Miami Heat subordinate pinch a statue extracurricular nan team's arena.

The Heat unveiled nan statue Sunday, astir 8 months aft squad president Pat Riley announced plans for nan tribute. Wade is Miami's all-time starring scorer, and he and Udonis Haslem are nan only players to person been connected each 3 Heat teams that won NBA championships.

“This is crazy,” Wade said moments aft nan unveiling. “I wanted to consciousness this. Life goes by truthful accelerated and it's very uncommon that we get to consciousness things, because we're ever disconnected to nan adjacent thing. ... I wanted to consciousness this, man. I wanted to look astatine it.”

An in-game ceremony will travel Monday erstwhile Miami plays big to Detroit connected nan 21st day of Wade's debut crippled pinch nan franchise.

Wade, a personnel of nan Basketball Hall of Fame, is 1 of six erstwhile Heat players to person their number retired by nan squad — on pinch Haslem, Chris Bosh, Tim Hardaway, Shaquille O'Neal and Alonzo Mourning.

“As nan top subordinate ever successful Miami Heat history, yes, it's his day, it's his family's day,” Riley said.

The statue is accompanied by a wall listing Wade's profession accomplishments and has been placed extracurricular nan beforehand doors of nan team's arena. Wade is now a part-owner of nan Utah Jazz successful summation to having galore different business interests.

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