Dwyane Wade defends his statue as it continues to draw attention to his special moment. Leroy takes issue with Wade's words in defense of his now viral monument then somehow "understands" Wade's POV.
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00:00All right. So I told you I'd give you the D. Wade statue defense. Would you like to
00:05hear his defense of the reactions to his statue? Sure. All right. This was D. Wade yesterday.
00:12Dwayne Wade. He got honored. He finally won a game where somebody got honored, which was
00:17nice. That's been a change of pace for a while. Did a cool interview with Jax in the middle
00:22of it, of halftime. But before the game, he spoke and he reacted to all the backlash his
00:30statue has gotten. Have you had a chance to see any of the reaction to the, to the statue
00:35yesterday? And like, was there any like reaction that you had at all to everyone's reaction
00:40to it? Yeah, I have an iPhone, social media. Let's see all the things, man. It's a lot
00:46of talk about me in this world. I don't, y'all got to know me by now. I, I care, but I don't.
00:55But you know, social, you know, the social media world is about opinions. Everyone has
01:00an opinion. Everyone utilize, use y'all opinions. Please talk more about us. Talk more about
01:06a statue, come out and see it. I'll take some photos, send some memes. We don't care. It
01:12was a special moment yesterday. My family and I, you know, I, I love a lot of people
01:19don't know. I don't know a lot of people with a statue. Do you? Anybody here? Y'all know
01:25anything about the process of a statue? No one out there do neither. And so, you know,
01:32it's an unbelievable process to be a part of, and it's a complicated process. And you
01:39know, when the sitting down with the Miami heat and myself, what we wanted to do is we
01:43wanted to capture a moment that represented the organization and represented myself and
01:48represented the city. I felt like we captured that moment, um, you know, artistic form and
01:53artistic way. If I wanted to look like me, I'll just stand outside the arena, y'all and
01:57take photos. You don't need to look like me. It's an artistic version, um, of a moment
02:02that happened that we're trying to cement. Um, so what do you stop it for? What is your
02:08finger up for? Before we saw this, before we saw the statue, they made a big deal of
02:20how D Wade paying attention to every detail, correct? That's where you have been very,
02:28very, no, no, no. That's what they said. I'm not, I'm not guessing. I'm not, not this is
02:33what was said to us about the distance between his nose and his lip and all this stuff and
02:39all it correct. Now he says, so, so, so let me get this straight. It don't need to look
02:54like him, but the distance between his nose and his lip need to be accurate. Explain that
03:01to me. I'm just trying to make sense of it, the details, but he just said, it don't need to look
03:09like me. It does look like him though. It does look like him. That's not what he said. That's
03:15what you said. I'm just telling you, you think it's supposed to look like me. I could just
03:20stand outside and take pictures. So he's admitting it doesn't look like him. You got to admit it
03:26again. I don't think that was his intention, but based off of your words, wait, just kind
03:39of admit that. If I wanted it to look like me, therefore implying that it probably doesn't
03:46look like him, but if he had wanted it to, he would have just stood out there. So he's
03:51implying it's a beautiful statue. I saw it up close yesterday. It's like, wait a minute.
03:58Time out. What is what I love about what people do? Nobody questioned whether the statue or
04:08the honor or the moment wasn't amazing. Okay. Everybody don't get a statue. It is an honor.
04:20Unlike any other. Okay. But he pretty much just admitted it doesn't really look like
04:29it. And that's okay. I mean, it wasn't really an admit. He's just like, you know, I felt
04:36like it was more like, Hey, take your opinions and, and, and stuff it, you know, like he
04:39doesn't want to hear it from you going down the conversation. Don't just hear the part
04:42you want. Y'all think that you look like me. If it, if it would look like me, I could just
04:48stand outside. So it's gotta be a little different. It's not a human. So now you're
04:56see, what you are the worst dude. It is a statue. It's not a human. It looks a lot like
05:12him. Really? He just said it. Don't look like, Oh, that's not what he said. That's not what
05:17he said. Okay. Replay that one more time. And this time, use your ears. You know, when
05:26the sitting down with the Miami heat and myself, what we wanted to do is we wanted to capture
05:30a moment that represented the organization and represented myself and represented the
05:35city. I felt like we captured that moment, um, you know, artistic form and artistic way.
05:41If I want it to look like me, I'll just stand outside the arena. Y'all gonna take photos.
05:45You don't need to look like me. It's an artistic version of a moment that happened that we're
05:49trying to cement. Um, so well, you don't always look the same at every moment. It's not how it
05:57works. Hold on. Hold on. He said the statue was not designed to look like him. It was designed
06:09to capture a moment. I mean, it doesn't, I mean, people are saying it looks like Forest
06:15Whitaker. It doesn't look like Forrest Whitaker. I'm saying whoever you say it is or isn't the way
06:24just said, it don't look like him. No, no, no. That's not what he said. That's not what he said.
06:29Repeat what he said to me. He's saying like, if I just, I said, repeat, he said,
06:34how would you think it's an artistic expression? If I wanted it to look exactly like me,
06:39I would just stand outside and take pictures. So he's admitting it doesn't look exactly like him.
06:43I mean, like a little bit, you got to take some leeway with, with, uh, with bronze, you know?
06:50Oh, it's not brass anymore. I forgot. I'm sorry. Why would it be made of the same thing as a
06:56trumpet? You should have just corrected me. Usually you can't get away with mistakes on
07:00this show. Tony Rizzo really scarred me. I don't want to say anything.
07:06Um, I'm just, you know, my family and I just woke up today, still in disbelief,
07:11still in disbelief that we were chosen, that I was chosen, uh, to be, you know, the first person in
07:17this organization's history and this to, uh, to have that, uh, honor and it's an honor. And so,
07:24um, I appreciate all the comments that everyone has because I'm, I'm in on the joke guys. Like
07:29I laugh all the time. Like I'm cool. I saw some memes that I was like, yeah, I mean,
07:33it kind of got a little Laurence Fishburne, uh, lower, lower jawline. I mean, my jawline is
07:37covered with this beard. Y'all can't see it. I have a beard at the time. So y'all can see my
07:42jawline a little more, but, um, you know, the, the family at Fine Art Studios did an amazing job
07:49and I hate that for them because they are in a different world, you know, when it comes to the
07:53work that they're doing and what they create. And every time they create something, someone
07:57has to come out and say something about their creation that cannot do what they do. And so I
08:01know what, I know what that feels like because I'm an athlete who people talk. I was a former athlete
08:06who people talked about me a lot, but they couldn't do what I do. And so, you know, you
08:10learn how to just, you know, laugh, look at it and learn from it, move on, whatever. So, um, we good.
08:17We good. Yeah. You guys bullied the artists. No, we didn't. No, we didn't see the point that I'm
08:26making is this with all this, it was not made to look like D-Wade. It was made to capture a moment
08:34and wait, this is not conjecture. This is not opinion. This is me believing the words coming
08:40out of D-Wade's mouth. I think, no, you know, based on what he said, it's one of these things
08:47where like, Hey, if, if the game went a certain way, you have to have answers for how the game
08:53went. And so I'll back. He said, the artist bullied that bronze. It looks like him. No,
09:04it doesn't do it. It looks like, Oh, it doesn't. I'm telling you, if I walked up on that in a dark
09:14place, I would be scared. Well, I mean, like it's, I don't know why you're scared. It's a
09:20moment of celebration, but I will say this. If I approached that statue, like D-Wade said,
09:29and remember the moment it's awesome. This side, harsher, harsher than the other side,
09:37you know, very pointy on the jaw. I don't understand how that's happening. The sun.
09:44Yeah. The sun was right there. And so it's like, ah, man, it has to be like the perfect angle,
09:49perfect sign. And you're like, Oh, not that bad. No, no, no, no. I think it really was Goosey's
09:55being around it. It was, it will be back from the back. It looks just like, okay, no, I'm just
10:03saying just the, you know, just the pose, the body. So here's the deal. And here's the point
10:11that I would like to make. If you listen to what D-Wade said, it actually, it actually makes
10:22the statue that much more appreciative. Okay. When you go into it, if you went into it thinking that
10:31it's supposed to look like D-Wade, then you're not getting what they were trying to do.
10:37But if you go in there and you look at the statue and you say, that's this moment,
10:43that's, this is my house, then you get a whole different opinion of it. But to go in there
10:49thinking that's supposed to look like D-Wade, D-Wade is telling you, no. So you can say it
10:57kind of looks like him. You're just being nice. The man who the statue was made out of, who spent
11:0216 hours with him, says, no, it wasn't designed to look like him.
11:05I think he's defending the artists. He very clearly cares about the artists.
11:09Really?
11:10Yeah. So, you know, it's kind of like-
11:12Listen to what you do. To make you right, you will say that the actual person
11:20who's talking about the statue to help build the statue, you don't believe his responses.
11:25It's something that-
11:26I'm taking D-Wade for what he said. You saying D-Wade's lying.
11:29I think he's being nice, but I think it's one of these things where I like the statue. I think it
11:34looks like him, but it's fine. I get the jokes too. Like it does have, I have to admit there
11:40are harsh angles. There are harsh angles, harsh angles.
11:43But again, here's where they got, here's where they got lost. I think a little bit
11:51because when he got on that table and he was yelling, this is my house,
11:57they tried to capture that.
11:59Yes.
12:01So-
12:02That's why I was doing the side-by-side the other day and you were like,
12:05nah, it doesn't look like it. I'm like, it does, the roar.
12:08But here's what I would say.
12:11I have, first of all, I appreciate it anyway.
12:17Now, no, no, it's worse.
12:21No, what do you mean it's worse? It's not worse.
12:26Marcos.
12:27Okay. If you square, the jaw is too square. Even he said it, the jaw is too square.
12:32His face is a little bit more rounded off.
12:35I understand the mouth open thing, but I agree with Leroy.
12:37You didn't necessarily, no one like needed that specific second.
12:40Right.
12:42What did you want the section? What did you want it to be?
12:44What do you think? Would it be smiling? Like, Hey, a smirk, like, you know, this is my house.
12:52Ain't nobody on this world got bronze teeth.
12:55What?
12:57That's a fact.
12:58That's a fact.
12:59There's no teeth in any bronze statue.
13:01No, I'm sure there is, but I'm saying like in their efforts to show teeth,
13:08they messed up the rest of his face in the head.
13:12Okay. Again, D Wade said that.
13:20This is not about looking like him. It's about capturing a moment.
13:26Okay. I appreciate that because now I went into it thinking the statue was supposed to look like D
13:34Wade. Now I do not. Now I think of the statue as that moment and not looking like D Wade.
13:44So now that I heard that you won't hear another thing.
13:47For me about questioning until you say it looked like D Wade, then we're going to have a problem
13:53because D Wade said it wasn't designed to look like D Wade.
13:57Something tells me you're going to have more things to say.
13:59No, no, because when they, they said it wasn't designed to look like him.
14:04So then I can't go into it.
14:06Yeah.
14:10So what if it's a little terrifying? The moment to him in the head?
14:15That's how he's going to do it. That's what he said. So what? The statue looks nothing like him.
14:19So what?
14:22Hey, let me tell you something. It does look, wait, not for nothing. It does look closer to that.
14:30The D Wade. Or just put up one of the, uh, walking dead people.
14:36You know, they walk around town with their hands like this.
14:38They would look good though. D Wade Boulevard look good yesterday.
14:42Yeah. You said the pictures took a little look at it. And of course he, you know, he came and gave
14:47you some little credit, gave you some credit. Yeah. Well, can you say how long ago is that?
14:52He still didn't, he still didn't see me. No. Why?
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