Parker, Longoria check out waxwork Tony
10/10/2006
PARIS (FIBA) - There’s nothing static about Tony Parker on the court.
The all-action guard has been in blistering form during the San Antonio Spurs’ NBA Europe Live fixtures so far as he bids to prove he is over the broken finger which forced him to miss France’s FIBA World Championship campaign.
But there was a change of pace as well as he took time out to meet another version of himself at the Grevin Museum in Paris.
His NBA opponents can only wish the real Parker was as stationary as this one.
Parker was joined by actress girlfriend Eva Longoria in Paris to witness the unveiling of his waxwork, standing proudly alongside the likes of Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, and Pope John Paul II.
"It's weird to look at yourself," Parker told the San Antonio Express News.
"Especially when you look in the eyes, you think he's going to move."
The waxwork Parker wears the Spurs black road uniform with a French flag motif. He looks ready to make a chest pass.
"It looks pretty real from here," said team-mate Brent Barry, among several Spurs players at the unveiling.
Parker visited the museum earlier this summer and spent five hours posing for sculptor Claus Velte and having casts taken of his arms and legs, and he was delighted by the results.
"It's beautiful," Parker said. "It's a great honour. I think the only thing missing is Pop standing there yelling at me. That would make the perfect picture."
By PA Sport