Former tennis star Sir Andy Murray will be honoured with a statue at Wimbledon, the All England Club announced on Tuesday. Murray, a two-time Wimbledon champion, ended Britain’s 77-year wait for a men’s singles champion in the competition when he defeated Novak Djokovic in the final in 2013. He clinched his second honours at Wimbledon in 2016 following a straight sets win over Canadian Milos Raonic....
Manchester City will honour Kevin De Bruyne with a statue outside the Etihad Stadium to celebrate his decade-long service, the club announced on Tuesday. De Bruyne confirmed last month that he will depart City after 10 years following the expiration of his current contract at the end of the season. The Belgian midfielder played his final game at the Etihad and his penultimate game for the...
The Miami Heat on Sunday, honoured arguably the franchise’s greatest ever player, Dwyane Wade, with a statue outside its Kaseya Center home in Florida, Afrosport reports. In a star-studded ceremony that had the likes of team president Pat Riley, Udonis Haslem, Bam Adebayo, WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson, and Wade’s wife and Hollywood star Gabrielle Union in attendance, Hall of Famer Wade became the first Heat player...
Seventeen-time NBA champions, the Los Angeles Lakers, revealed on Thursday that they will be paying tribute to Hall of Famer and former NBA star Kobe Bryant with a statue in front of the franchise’s Crypto.com Arena, next year. The Lakers announced that Bryant, who spent the entirety of his 20-year NBA career with them, will have his statue erected on February 8, 2024, a date that...
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