{"id":127217,"date":"2024-04-13T14:43:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T14:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/13\/social-media-react-to-legends-statue\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T14:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T14:43:32","slug":"social-media-react-to-legends-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/13\/social-media-react-to-legends-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media React To Legend&#8217;s Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Allen Iverson\u2019s statue on the 76er\u2019s Legends Walk was unveiled on Friday (April 12).<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/news\/here\u2019s-why-76ers\u2019-new-statue-allen-iverson-so-tiny\/d9208b316af0f34c4ac4b0c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sporting News<\/a>, followers have been involved that the determine was too tiny for the NBA nice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Philadephia 76ers honored AI on the Penn Medicine Philadelphia Training Complex, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/sixers\/news\/allen-iverson-sculpture-ceremony-4-12-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA.com<\/a> experiences. After the statue was revealed, social media started cracking jokes about its small measurement.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Social Media Reacts To Allen Iverson\u2019s Statue<\/h3>\n<p>The Roommates shared their opinion underneath The Shade Room\u2019s social media put up.<\/p>\n<p>@justinlaboy quipped, <strong>\u201cThey gave bro a trophy #Respectfully.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNow where\u2019s the grown up one,\u201d <\/strong>@kilenas.g added.<\/p>\n<p>@c.ray.artwork said, <strong>\u201cHis chain bigger than the statue.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSomebody gone walk past and put that jawn in they pocket,\u201d<\/strong> KevinKaj_ wrote.<\/p>\n<p>However, they didn&#8217;t understand Iverson\u2019s statue matched the opposite statues honoring NBA legends. Allen\u2019s was positioned<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/news\/here\u2019s-why-76ers\u2019-new-statue-allen-iverson-so-tiny\/d9208b316af0f34c4ac4b0c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> alongside<\/a> Charles Barkley, Julius Erving, and Wilt Chamberlain. He was in good firm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Other social media goers understood.<\/p>\n<p>@oldscoolt stated, <strong>\u201cIt\u2019s a very nice statue! People have to remember it\u2019s NOT a stand alone statue. It\u2019s among a long line of other Sixer greats that adorn the front of the facility and they\u2019re ALL the same size.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, some commentators appreciated this honor however felt he deserved extra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI love the recognition, but let\u2019s not forget this man [changed] the identity of basketball and put Philadelphia on a whole nother level !! Statue in front of the arena, please !!\u201d<\/strong> @_wayneeeee wrote.<\/p>\n<p>At the revealing ceremony, the previous NBA MVP shared his emotions in regards to the honor, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/sixers\/news\/allen-iverson-sculpture-ceremony-4-12-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph\">\n<p><b>\u201cI love these people and they love me back. They honor the fact that I gave everything I had, night in and night out. And I loved the fact that they supported me through all these years.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Allen Iverson\u2019s statue on the 76er\u2019s Legends Walk was unveiled on Friday (April 12). According to Sporting News, followers have been involved that the determine was too tiny for the NBA nice. The Philadephia 76ers honored AI on the Penn Medicine Philadelphia Training Complex, NBA.com experiences. After the statue was revealed, social media started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[124,122,123,121,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-127217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-legends","9":"tag-media","10":"tag-react","11":"tag-social","12":"tag-statue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}