It’s no secret around these parts that I’m a big fan of beards. I have one myself and I write about them frequently in regards to the NBA.
Today, however, it won’t be me talking about beards and mustaches, but you. Share your favorite all-time NBA-related instance of facial hair below in the comments, and whoever comes up with the best entry will win a FREE NBA LEAGUE PASS MOBILE SEASON PASS* for the iPhone, which is normally priced $39.99 and lets you watch NBA games live or in replay (for up to 48 hours) plus a lot more.
The second-place entry also wins, with the entrant receiving a FREE NBA GAME TIME APP for the iPhone, which is normally priced at $9.99 gives you live game radio, video postgame recaps, video postgame highlights, live scores/stats, live game alerts and much more.
To recap: You give me your favorite facial hair opinion, I give you free stuff. Just name the player or coach and describe why it is your favorite. Links encouraged.
UPDATE: I’ll keep this open until midnight PST and announce the winner in the morning.
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I haven’t tried League Pass Mobile yet, but people I’ve talked to say it’s pretty sweet.
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PAU GASOL’S HAIR ON HIS HEAD ALL OF IT
It has be Bill Walton. Ginger Claus. Creepy white hippy with red Abe Lincoln look. I love your outlet passes…but stay away from my kids!
I really dig Baron Davis’ King Leonidas. I think James Harden quietly has the best facial hair in the league. And I’m am always hypnotized by whatever it is that John Salmons is trying to do, But for this entry, I’m going with Shaquille O’Neal.
My opinion about the Big Follicular has changed considerably over the years (from young, awestruck fan during the LSU/Orlando years to “he’skindofadoucher” during the last 18 months) but whenever Shaq grows out his bead and wears it beneath a bald dome, I think there’s something inherently sincere about the dude. I can’t explain why I think that is. Just feeling. Like the kind you get whenever Ky Ryssdal’s voice trickles out of your car’s speakers during the evening commute. You may not understand everything you’re hearing (or in Shaq’s case, seeing) but somehow it all makes sense and there’s no need to know anything more than what is obviously given to you.
(MMMM…that’s good prescription painkiller…)
Boom Dizzle, hands sown! Imagine him without facial hair.. Its like a gray male peacock. No such thing? my point exactly.
I don’t own an iPhone so I refuse to take part in your contest. Unless it works for the Google version.
Either way, Rip Hamilton’s player card picture from ESPN has the most ridiculous looking beard, ever, on it. It’s like a hippie mixed with a black person.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=294
DeShawn Stevenson, and heres why:
Nothing makes a bread look better that a tat of Abe Lincoln below it. Maybe all the ink is a way tog et people to notice that he is rocking a wicked beard. Check the ink respect the facial hair, Stevenson took a page from the “Bad Ass Book of Beard,” writen by Baron “Snakes” Davis.
James Harden has one of the best beards known to man.
Gotta be “Pistol” Pete Maravich. Had great porn mustache. His mustache screams the 70’s. I actually thought he was John Holmes one time when I was younger. The mustache embiggins the 70’s.
I’ve gotta go with the Indiana Pacers’ Mustache crew from last year.
Inspired by Mike Dunleavy as a show of team unity, the Indiana Pacers’ Mustache Crew was an awesomely atrocious display of facial hair ineptitude. Dunleavy’s own ’stache was just atrocious: http://www.tiricosuave.com/images/mikedunleavymoustache.jpg , while Travis Diener’s attempt at mutton chops were so boyish and immature that they could only be called Lamb Chops. http://www.bothteamsplayedhard.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/diener_gallery1_0708.jpg
This attempt at unity should at least unify our opinions: forget the mustache, rock a beard.
Hope this isn’t too late to be considered, I had some technical issues on my end.
1st place goes to bRodge cause after reading that, I can’t feel my face.
2nd place goes to Tom Mundal for that final sentence.
I’ll be in touch with you both shortly to give you your prizes.