{"id":595043,"date":"2026-06-09T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/595043\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:18:15","slug":"what-will-happen-to-mike-modano-dirk-nowitzki-statues-outside-aac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/595043\/","title":{"rendered":"What will happen to Mike Modano, Dirk Nowitzki statues outside AAC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Stars\u2019<\/a> and Mavericks\u2019<\/a> planned moves away from American Airlines Center in 2031 have left many unanswered questions about the fate of downtown Dallas and the building they\u2019ve occupied for close to three decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among those questions: What will happen to the two statues that sit just feet from the arena\u2019s front doors?\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the two legendary North Texas\u00a0athletes will remain neighbors in Victory Park for only the next five years.<\/p>\n

The Stars and the Mavericks confirmed to\u00a0The Dallas Morning News that both statues are movable and would be taken to their potential new arenas: the Stars’ in Plano and the Mavs’ at the Valley View mall site. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Modano confirmed to The News that he was informed his statue will make the trip up the Dallas North Tollway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That drive is nothing compared to the trips both statues made earlier this decade. Both were both designed by Chicago-based artist\u00a0Omri Amrany. After using thousands of pounds of clay and a forklift to sculpt each, they were sent to a foundry where they were set in bronze and welded together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then, a separate company that made the granite bases transported the statues nearly 1,000 miles to Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 11-mile trip for Nowitzki to Valley View and the 17-mile trip for Modano to Plano should be far simpler.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Cowboys similarly moved a statue of legendary coach Tom\u00a0Landry from the gates of Texas Stadium in Irving to AT&T Stadium (then Cowboys Stadium) when the team moved to Arlington in 2009. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The News contacted Amrany\u2019s studio for more specifics on the transportation process but did not hear back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It also remains unclear what will happen to the street named Nowitzki Way\u00a0in Victory Park, and whether a street near the Mavericks\u2019 new arena will be renamed to honor Nowitzki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Stars\u2019 and Mavericks\u2019 planned moves away from American Airlines Center in 2031 have left many unanswered questions about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[301,196,147,5278,5,4,197,64591,61173,65733],"class_list":["post-595043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-stars","tag-tp-dallas-mavericks","tag-tp-dallas-stars","tag-tp-american-airlines-center"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116721293916178604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}