Dwyane Wade statue sculptor says his Michael Jordan statue also wasn’t well-received

But as Amrany recalled, when the Michael Jordan statute was publicly unveiled at a press conference on Nov. 1, 1994, it was not roundly greeted with praise. Rather, there were a number of initial complaints from the public and media over the way it portrayed Jordan’s face, including the decision to keep the Hall of Fame’s famously wagging tongue concealed behind his lips. “They didn’t like that his face wasn’t right off a cereal box,” said Amrany. “They didn’t want what (Jordan) said he wanted. And they didn’t know that, because they were not meeting him, they did not sit with him.” Mercifully, that experience long predated the era of social media and the current “world of algorithms,” as Amrany puts it. The peanut gallery is infinitely more critical and voluble in 2024. “I mean, after 20 articles (about Dwyane Wade’s sculpture) in the last three days,” Amrany said, “what you become is not famous, but infamous.”
Source: Sportico