November 21, 2008
Arenas Still Getting the Star Treatment
Via Deadspin, looks like Madame Tussauds Wax Museum unveiled a Gilbert Arenas statue yesterday. Agent Zero paid lip service to the tourist attraction that immortalized him in wax:
"It is an honor to join the ranks of sports icons such as Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods by being immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds Washington D.C.," Arenas said. "Like the Wizards, Madame Tussauds has become a fixture in the nation's capital and one that I'm proud to be a part of."At first we balked at the notion that Madame Tussauds, which was recently forced to slash their admission prices from $18 to $10 because no one was going there, could be compared to the Wizards. But then we remembered how bad the team is this year.
Pretty amazing that Gil is still considered such a big NBA star even though he hasn't really played regularly for almost two years now. We still love the Hibachi, obviously, but it's starting to become more difficult to remember what it's like to have him actually be an integral part of the team.
Photo by Jeffrey Snyder, courtesy Madame Tussauds
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Me thinks that The Madame would do better with more interesting celebs. At the rate she's going at, we may as well have figures of Carol Schwartz and the cook from Ben's Chili Bowl.
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Anybody wanna bet the statue plays better D?
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They should have been working on an Obama figure for the inaugural for the big bucks.
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No one is going to recognize him if he's not sitting on the bench.