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Meet sculptors who'll make Shaq's statue fly

Omri Amrany and Julie Rotblatt-Amrany aren't big sports fans, but over the past 20 years they have immortalized some of the biggest names in sports across the country.

Their next project might be their most spectacular one: a statue of Shaquille O'Neal suspended in the air outside Staples Center.

The Highland Park, Illinois, husband-and-wife tandem got their major break in 1994 when they beat out 11 other sculptors for the opportunity to create the Michael Jordan statue that now sits in front of the United Center in Chicago.