The statue was made by Rotblatt Amrany Studio, a firm that has designed monuments to some of the most well-known athletes in America: Ernie Banks, Barry Sanders, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant. When I’d visited the studio, in the Chicago suburbs, the sculpture of Wade ended at the wrists. I’d asked a member of the studio’s team where the hands were; he’d explained that the sculptors still needed more reference photos. “Wade has really, really big hands,” he’d said. “The biggest hands on a human that I ever saw.”