Though the majority of the tribute remained the same, the head\u2019s transformation is having fans saying hoop, hoop, hooray.<\/p>\n
And Wade couldn\u2019t agree more.<\/p>\n
In fact, the 44-year-old\u2014who shares daughter Zaya, 19, and son Zaire, 24, with ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches, son Xavier, 12, with ex Aja Metoyer, as well as daughter Kaavia, 7, with wife Gabrielle Union\u2014gave insight into what led to the changes in a Substack essay<\/a> published Oct. 30, emphasizing that what matters most of all are the fans.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the first statue ever to stand in front of that arena,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThat means something to me, but it also means something to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though the majority of the tribute remained the same, the head\u2019s transformation is having fans saying hoop, hoop,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-443976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}