When Cristiano Ronaldo’s golden statue was revealed earlier this year, we thought we’d seen the bust of the year, but this woman’s LeBron James effort might just have stolen first place.
Sandy Buffie is an Ohio artist and, according to the New York Post, she created the piece titled LintBron after donations of lint from 30 people.
LintBron James. She said she made this out of 30 pounds of dryer lint. pic.twitter.com/brkeeITHYn
— J.A. Adande (@jadande) June 7, 2017
It’s a pretty great effort it has to be said, with some unconventional materials involved.Here’s a close up – that’s detail, tattoos and all.
New dryer lint sculpture of LeBron. Stop by and rub his head for luck#cavs#lebron#sculpture#dryerlint#espn#nbafinals pic.twitter.com/9KRJRpZi31
— sandy buffie (@sandybuffie) June 7, 2017
The real LeBron has been having a tough time of it in the NBA Finals. Despite personally scoring 96 points along with 37 rebounds and 31 assists, his team the Cleveland Cavaliers are 3-0 down in the best of seven series.
So naturally folks wanted to know if LintBron had skills too.
can he play
— Lana Berry (@Lana) June 7, 2017
Others pointed out that LeBron was not the first to be honoured in dryer lint.
???? there's more of….this?
— SitDownDelilah (@BruxelSprouts) June 7, 2017
Meanwhile some people were confused, which is probably a fair initial response.
— Nate Siems (@NateSiems) June 7, 2017
But surely we can all agree that, after the initial surprise of LintBron, he’s pretty great.
We need more information, this is wonderful! ??
— Ashleigh Walters (@AshleighWalters) June 8, 2017
Who’s next? Daley Blint? Dele Allint?
