In this segment of the Draymond Green Show, Draymond Green and former NBA guard Baron Davis discuss the unveiling of Dwyane Wade’s new Miami Heat statue. They begin by congratulating Wade on his jersey retirement and statue, then shift to a humorous yet critical analysis of the statue’s likeness, noting that the final sculpture’s face looks nothing like Wade and resembles other players. They speculate about the design and approval process, joking that the artist might have used Wade’s cousin as a model and questioning why key figures like Pat Riley weren’t consulted. The conversation turns to possible fixes—re‑sculpting, swapping the head, using AI, 3D printing, or holographic overlays—and they mention artist Lauren Halsey as a potential alternative. Throughout, the tone remains informal, comedic, and opinionated, with a mix of admiration for Wade and criticism of the statue’s execution.
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So a lot, a lot of people talking about this one. It's from your era, although I did play against D2. Number one, first I wanna say congratulations to D-Wade on the statue, man.
Yeah, congratulations to Flash, my dog. That's my dog.
Yes, sir. I think like to get a statue, man, like that.
Ah, come on, D.
To get your jersey retired is one thing, like that's— Yep. That's incredible. It's great to get a statue like you.
That's on a whole nother level, bro. That's a totally different level.
You immortalized, you feel me? Absolutely. And so number one, like I said, congrats to him. But we must, I must ask, what was your first thoughts when you saw the statue. People are, you know, people are making a lot about it.
D-Wade said, "Who is that guy?" What, man, man, what's your thoughts, man? Man, man, all right, first of all, first of all, I want to echo what you said, you feel what I'm saying? Flash, Hall of Famer, Olympian, you You know what I mean? NBA champ, you know, to have your jersey retired, to be immortalized in a statue, you know, incredible. You know what I mean? Probably emotional day. All the people out there and shout out to the Miami Heat organization 'cause they just always, you know, do it right. Until—
They do.
Until they picked a person to design the statue, bro. Well, all right, I got, I got some jokes 'cause I, I felt, I felt you was gonna ask me this. I said, why did they give D-Wade a Teemu statue? When he said, yeah, when he said, who is that? I was like, man, who is that? You know?
Hey bro, who is that?
Who is that? Hey, I would like to make an announcement right now to anybody retiring or anybody picking another statue, please consult with Baron Davis Enterprises on how to approve and design a statue. Come on, dude. I mean, come on, dog.
So check this out.
Hey, dog, they did, look how they did Iverson in Philly.
It was like this big. I couldn't believe AI statue was like this big.
Hey, dog, they had, they gave AI an Oscar trophy.
Yo, so check this out. Check this out. I saw pictures of D-Wade D-Wade viewing the statue face. It's actually, I think it was on Rachel Nichols' page, if I'm not mistaken, of D-Wade viewing the statue. And I must say, the mockup of his face looks absolutely nothing like the statue turned out. So everybody's like, oh, D-Wade saw it first. Like, he know, he saw, he approved it. But the mockup of his face before the turn up, it looked like D-Wade. Afterwards, it looked like Tim Thomas. And—
Hey, bro.
I don't quite understand how it ended up that way.
That's sick.
But my thing is, like, don't they show the statue to maybe someone like Pat Riley, like, when it's complete? Before they just unveil it and everybody like, "Oh yo, like who is that guy?" Damn, dude. I just, and then another one is the, then the guy who made the statue comes out today with a statement saying it is not for all humans to understand. It's not for all human activity or something of that nature. And I'm just like, "Yo, you can't come out here defend that." Chill, homie.
Chill, homie. Hey, you know what?
One person that came out and agree with your statue face, bro.
You can't do that. You got, come on, dawg. You got, this is what I think. I think they were like, yo, D-Wade, we need you to pose for this statue. And you know how busy he is. He like, man, I ain't got all day. And this shit was taking all day. So he called his cousin and said, hey man, fill in.
So you think it's not D-Wade?
It could be his cousin. So he was like, "Man, I'm tired of this shit. Hey cousin, stand in for me." And the artist didn't know if it was D-Wade or the cousin.
Yeah. Deshaun Wade.
Damn, man. Shout out to D-Wade, man. We love you, bro. We love you, bro. It's just— Nothing but love.
I actually saw D-Wade last week, man. It's always a pleasure to see D-Wade, to be in his presence.
Yeah.
But D, you got, can they like redo the face?
Man, that's what I was gonna say, dog.
How does that work?
We gotta do something, dude. We gotta do something. Aight, we gotta do something. 'Cause like, think about like 20 years from now. You know what I mean? Like, he gonna be like, yo, like, here's my statue. You know what I mean? And your grandkids gonna be like, aye, man, knock it off.
He look 20 years older in the statue right now.
Damn. Hey, hey, hire me to find the artist to create art for statues to represent these legends.
Lauren Halsey.
Lauren Halsey. I'm not dissing the artist.
She'd be great at it.
I'm not dissing the artist or nothing 'cause I understand art, I understand artistry. But when you do sculptures of people, you know what I mean? You're gonna face the most backlash because we know what D-Wade look like, you know what I mean? And so we wanna see, we wanna see a D-Wade statue. You know what I mean?
I, I, yeah. I, that's a fact. I agree. I hope they can like twist the head off and like change it out or something because—
Or paint like a hologram on the face, you know what I mean? Like, Like maybe. Something.
Use some AI, a 3D printer, something. We got too many things today. This must be corrected.
