Dwyane Wade may not agree with all of the statue jokes.

The Heat star was instrumental in the creative process of his bronze statue that the Miami Heat unveiled outside the Kaseya Center on Sunday – which many online suspected looks nothing like him.

Wade — who was the Heat’s fifth overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft and went on to win three championships with Miami — met with Rotblatt Amrany Studio sculptors Omri Amrany and Oscar León for hours in Chicago on four separate occasions and gave them his feedback during he told the Miami Herald the entire time it was being written.

The Hall of Fame guard, whose No. 3 jersey was retired by the Heat in 2020, explained that he had the sculptors measure his face after they initially got the dimensions of his face wrong.

Fox Sports 1 personality Rachel Nichols confirmed that Wade actually had a big influence on how he appeared in the statue.

“I mean, look, I think it’s clear how Dwyane Wade sees himself,” Nichols said during an appearance on “The Dan Le Batard Show” on Monday. “That’s not a dig because he had the most input into it and in the end it’s for him.

“He said he had visited the statue maker four times. He said that during one of the visits – he told me – he said, “You didn’t get the distance between the bridge of my nose and my lip right.” The ratio wasn’t right.

“So I had the distance between the bridge of my nose and my lip measured so they could get it just right.” So when he goes into that level of detail, that tells me that the rest of it was like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s it.’ “

Le Batard further joked that Nichols was one of the few people who defended the 8-foot-tall statue after many said it didn’t look like Wade.

“I’m not defending the statue, I’m just saying that Dwyane likes the statue,” Nichols said. “It’s his statue… he had the biggest hand in it of all.”

Wade — the Heat’s all-time leader in points, assists, steals and games played — called making the statue a “beautiful process” to be a part of.

“Dwyane visited several times,” León told the Miami Herald. “It was that final visit with the final little improvements that he was able to see first hand. After that, we really trust the process. The bronze brings out a level of depth and shine and a vibrancy that cannot be achieved with clay. The clay absorbs a lot of light, while this bronze has this beautiful quality that you just can’t imagine what this will look like. But we trust the process.”

The statue is first made from clay before the bronze is applied.

Wade chose an iconic moment from his Heat career to commemorate the statue.

It was his triumphant celebration after he hit a one-legged game-winning three-pointer as time expired in overtime against the Bulls on March 9, 2009, to break a 127-127 tie.

Wade, who finished with 48 points, six rebounds, 12 assists, four steals and three blocks, jumped onto the scorer’s table and yelled, “This is my house!”