Hair affair

As the Cowsills sang, “Gimme it down to there (hair!), shoulder length or longer (hair!).”

My junior high school coach didn’t agree. If your hair got long, he wouldn’t let you play.

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This isn’t him, but you get the idea.

Luckily, that rule didn’t apply in the NBA.

Used to be super-hairy guys in the Association were everywhere. There are still some, but whatever happened to Bill Walton (besides his TV career)?

Nowadays he looks like a banker.

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A lot of players have facial hair. Some are rather bodacious about it like James Harden and Baron Davis. Others, like most of the Jazz players, have a little facial hair.

Paul Gasol (L.A.) and brother Marc (Memphis) are into the scruffy Euro look or, as opposing fans like to say, the Geico Caveman look.

Paul Gasol, Deseret News

But for my money, the finest scruffy, Bill Walton-like look belongs to Houston’s Luis Scola, who happened to go for 26 points against the Jazz on Sunday night.

 

Luis Scola, bleacherreport.com

Is it your opinion Scola looks more like a hippie, a grunge rocker, a caveman or Aragorn from “Lord of the Rings” ?

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Have I left anyone out?

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