The State of Indiana Says "Screw You, Ours is Bigger" to Los Angeles

The news of Kareem Abdul Jabbar finally getting his statue he's wanted so badly must have spurred the state of Indiana to "match & raise you" in the hypothetical poker game that is NBA player statues. Indiana State University, Bird's Alma Mater, has approved a 15 ft (about 4.5 meters) bronze statue of Larry Legend after an anonymous donor ( you're not supposed to donate to your own statue, Larry) & university reached agreement on the artist. The sculptor, Larry Wolfe consciously made the Larry Bird statue larger than Magic Johnson's.

The Sculptor with how big he orginally wanted the statue with Indiana as a scale.

“I don’t have anything against Magic,” Wolfe said.
“Larry is just better,” Wolfe then said in unison with Jack Fox, director of development for the Indiana State University Foundation.

(those guys have such good timing together maybe they should start their own barber shop quartet like Homer Simpson did.) Them's fightin' words Indiana, I wouldn't be surprised if Los Angeles ramped up their schedule and announced a 30 foot bronze statue of Kobe Bryant tomorrow. The only problem is the state of Indiana seems to all be on the same page... This should be a good showdown of "who has the biggest statue" contest. Come on you two, don't be little petty boys about this. Remember,  it's not the size of the statue but what you DO with it.

( after hearing about Los Angeles's 30 foot statue of Kobe, Indiana is immediately working on approving a fifty foot statue of Reggie Miller. )