Tyrese Maxey becomes Spider-Man in artwork gifted to him by a Florida man: ‘just blessing them with a piece for the man cave’

Inside the Graham Athletics and Wellness Center at Penn Charter, 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey leaned forward, staring at a painting gifted to him by 33-year-old Florida native Brett Marron, also known as 1uv1bmarron on social media.

“I got to get a picture of this,” Maxey said.

“This is for you,” Marron said.

“I definitely got some wall space to fill,” Maxey responded.

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The painting by Los Angeles-based artist Savvy featured Maxey in a red, white, and blue uniform. But it was unlike his typical Sixers jersey. Instead, the two-time All-Star was dressed in a Spider-Man suit climbing on a Philadelphia skyscraper, battling his enemy, Mysterio.

With one hand holding onto the building, the other shot web at the villain — but at the end of the web was a special collectible professional sports authenticator slab taped onto the canvas that featured the same design.

“When I started my brand, I was just on Maxey’s page and I saw that he was a die-hard Spider-Man fan,” Marron said. “So, when I saw that … I just had this inspiration where it would be cool to have him as Spider-Man shooting the web at his PSA slab.

“And once I had the idea, I didn’t even know that I was going to get the piece to Maxey. I was just confident that he loved Marvel, I knew the piece would be dope and I just made it happen.”

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Maxey is known as a Marvel superfan. In an interview on The Tonight Show, he named an Avengers starting lineup with NBA players — making himself or Donovan Mitchell, famously nicknamed “Spida,” Spider-Man. His fandom also was evident this spring when he and his partner, Myra Gordon, named their daughter Marvel.

Maxey has seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day twice, and it has only been out for a little over a week.

“I loved it, man,” he said. “I went to the premiere, that was amazing, and watched it again — I forget when I watched it, but I watched it again, and it was just really good. I think the biggest thing for me was they brought him back down to a street-level character. We love seeing Spider-Man in space and fighting Thanos and stuff like that. But it was really cool to see The Punisher and Hulk and then Jean Grey. That was all really cool, and I enjoyed it.”

Marron didn’t initially have plans to actually get the piece to Maxey, but one of his followers reached out to help. He had known Maxey’s uncle and business manager, Brandon McKay, since high school and reached out about arranging a time to give Maxey the art.

”We tried to catch him at the end of the season, but it didn’t work out, and we just sat on the piece for a few months until this came up, and we made it happen,” Marron said.

Marron has been building his brand, 1uv1, for the last six months. It focuses on making art that gives sports card collectors a way to display those cards through fine art. So with every card made, there’s a painting on canvas to go along with it.

Marron has gifted his art to several athletes, including Sixers legend Allen Iverson, Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter, and Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby.

”My brand, 1uv1, is big on just gifting art to different GOATs out there,” Marron said. “Just go from city to city just blessing them with a piece for the man cave.”

Marron also gifted Maxey a portrait of him and LeBron James that was painted by Philly artist Bill Strobel.