Bald Spot-Light: 5 NBA Players Who Need To Cut Their Hair
Manu Ginobili may be a winner, but he’s losing his hair.
Had we not just finished Complex’s 100 Best Sports Moments of the 2000s (click here if you missed it), we definitely would have included the historic moment when San Antonio Spurs guard Manu “Batman” Ginobili finally acknowledged that he’s been playing with a bald spot for several seasons and cropped it close. Yes, men discussing other men’s hair is precious, but in the NBA a badass ‘do is vital to intimidating opponents, and guys who look like balding old men get no respect. Years back, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Clyde Drexler, and Karl Malone all learned this and shaved their heads. Now Ginobili is setting the example for a new generation. Here are five current players we bald-spotted who should follow his lead…
DERON WILLIAMS, UTAH JAZZ
• D-Will is a great young point guard who sees the holes in defenses but apparently he can’t see the space opening up on his head.
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JOEY DORSEY, HOUSTON ROCKETS
• He’s since cut the rows and we’re still seeing a lot of scalp. That’s how a hairline races back on D.
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CHRIS KAMAN, LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS
• Of all teams, he plays for the Clippers. At least the irony’s thick.
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MICHAEL REDD, MILWAUKEE BUCKS
• Unfadeable? Not so much. He’d better buy a straight razor before somebody takes it hard to that hole.
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RIP HAMILTON, DETROIT PISTONS
• You won’t get any “his teammate Charlie Villanueva has a fuller head of hair than he does” jokes from us. Dude has alopecia universalis, and that would just be wrong.
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****COACH/GM BONUS:
MIKE DUNLEAVY, LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS
• Adidas outfits the NBA. Perhaps it’s also endorsing him to comb those three strands back?
RELATED: Complex’s Top 100 Sports Moments of the 2000s!
BIG FRED November 4, 2009 at 6:28 pm
YOOOOOOOOOO! IT LOOKS LIKE RUDY GAY IS STARING DEAD AT DORSEY’S HAIR LINE THINKIN “GOT DAMN! UR SHIT IS PUSHED WAY THE FUCK BACK!”
Bizzle November 4, 2009 at 7:11 pm
You forgot Kristic. Man needs to go shave fo real
school November 4, 2009 at 8:38 pm
hahahah big fred…
look at sheed’s crater in the redd pic too!
Wade Boggs November 4, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I’m convinced Deron airbrushes the front, for what it’s worth… That’s a man who will hang on for dear life though, because he seemingly gets a cut every five days.
DuckZ November 5, 2009 at 10:36 am
I’ve always lamented the day Clyde the Glide stopped rocking the male pattern baldness look of his late Blazer days. I have hope in my heart that Deron is gonna bring it back and rock the MPB look at the 2012 Olympics, 20 years after Clyde rocked it!
mick November 5, 2009 at 12:31 pm
how is kobe not on the list. fool invented the 5-head…