Washington Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas Waxed

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What do Gilbert Arenas, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal have in common other than they have played in the NBA?

The Wizards’ guard, who went to Grant High in North Hollywood, has a life-size wax statue of himself in Madam Tussauds of Washington. The only other two basketball players so honored are Jordan at a wax museum in Chicago and Shaq in the Madam Tussauds of Las Vegas.

Arenas makes the point in the Washington Times that the museum hasn’t yet turned Kobe Bryant into a wax statue.

‘This is, wow. When you’re a little kid, you don’t think about stuff like this,’ Arenas told the newspaper. ‘You see it of all the movie stars, but you don’t think about athletes. When I got the paper and they asked me, I said, ‘Of course!’ Are you crazy? They said they hadn’t done LeBron, they hadn’t done Kobe. I came here and I was ready.’

A wax statue of Yao Ming is set to be unveiled in Beijing.

-- Randy Harvey