Wemby on going bald: “I have been having this in the back of my head for a little bit and the fact that (Keldon) wanted to do it as well was just convinc me. I felt like we had to lock in real quick because we had been losing a little bit”
channeling that inner timmy
Next step for locking tf in is JCPenney’s jeans and polos.
Oversized
I was always impressed that people as big as professional basketball players were able to find clothing that’s oversized on them.
There’s fat 7 footers too
3 of em
Lanky and Tall
then go to South Korea to train with the Starcraft pros.
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Wemby Louis Vuitton’d Timmy’s outfit lol
Looks sharp
Can’t wait until he retires then… Wemby with dreads would be sick
Looking like a snack ain’t he
Also DRob on his way for a minute now holding on to those last strands like Costanza.
His hairline ain’t as good as Timmy’s though
Need him to get into StarCraft
Channeling caruso
The hate for chet was starting to consume him
I wonder how much real estate Chet has in wemby’s head
I hate the whole “free real estate” thing. Like it’s somehow a bad thing to be passionate. People compare him and Chet all the time, and it lights a fire in him to put Chet in his place. When people pissed off MJ and he took it personally and dominated them, did those guys just have real estate in his head? So I guess MJ got rage baited into becoming the goat?
Are we pretending the “and I took that personally” man didn’t get rage baited? He literally rage baited himself when he ran out lol
yes. my goat lebron has no enemies
LeThorfinn
Great reference
Shout-out Klay Thompson for calling him a bitch and inspiring him to put on the greatest finals performance of all time.
Hate is a strong motivator! Plenty of people would do well to dump their inner hate melancholy and start projecting it outward.
Except Deshawn Stevenson
So you’re saying Chet has free real estate in Wemby’s mind?
Yes, thats exactly what happened. MJ was obsessive to the point of mental illness and honestly doesnt look so good now lol.
He is the goat (shared with bron) but he was rage baited and had people taking up full real estate in that shiny head.
I don’t think you can be a top 3 player and MVP and champ without being like this in many ways. There is no way SGA doesn’t share similar qualities like that of MJ. They don’t WANT to see others succeed where they failed even if they can be happy for some of them. Joker, Giannis, SGA I am sure are like that. Luka idk lol.
TBF most of the stuff we learned about MJ’s really deep obsessions to get mentally ready were after he retired finally so I am sure we will learn wild stuff about today’s star. Shaq used to make up beefs too, he admitted later to making up the whole “David Robinson refused to give me an autograph” decades later
I just think today’s players know they can’t voice that stuff as much with the internet
as a competitor i would never let another man’s accomplishments live rent-free in my head.
i do appreciate the attempt though
As you spend the last three hours letting Wemby live rent free in your head hahaha
I witnessed my team draft players and win their first ever NBA championship without the help of stern/silver.
How’s winning trophies going for Wemby and co? Any luck winning the NBACcup silverware? 👀
Here let me count the fingers on my hand…
You must’ve had a great time seeing those from your dad’s nutsack lol
I watched those championships with my own eyes lil bitch boy.
Sure you did fuckin pussy 😂
without the help of Stern/Silver
lol yeah like you didn’t jump up a couple spots for Chet
Adam Silver forced the Clippers to give OKC all those picks??
Today I learned something new 🥸
The Chet pick was your own. Brother doesn’t know his own team’s history 💔 kinda figured with the account age being a month.
Buddy we would never had been in the lottery had we decided to keep Paul George lmaooo
no wonder you bozos keep being coming in 2nd place for everything 😂
doesn’t matter too much if hes gonna end up owning him for the next decade
I imagine it might get under Wemby’s skin even more if Chet keeps winning championships despite getting owned by Wemby.
no one cares about NBA championships
h2h regular season superbowl wins matter more
keeps winning
Brother he has 1 let’s settle down here
And DPOYs cause Wemby won’t hit 65 game limit lol
Bahahaha kinda like Chet for 50% of the seasons he’s been in the nba, right? Kinda ironic coming from an okc fan… worry about your own frail center buddy
chet got hip surgery came back and won a ring
wemby left woth blood clots and bottled a NBACup final.
no one’s stressing about a center who’s never won anything bahaha
careful.
the league might change DPOY into a participation trophy so that wemby doesn’t feel left out.
wemby is beyond chet
He’s essentially the same age Chet was during his rookie season, for context
Chet: 17/8/3/1/2 on 63 TS%, +3.4 BPM
Wemby: 24/11/3/1/4 on 63 TS%, +9.3 BPM
Probably not much. He wins the head to head battle and it’s not even close. He just wants that ring that Chet already has
The actual battle is SGA vs Wemby. The media is stupid and keeps pushing Chet.
It’d be like if we hyped up Castle vs SGA as the next great rivalry. Castle is awesome, just like Chet, but they aren’t in the same tier as SGA and Wemby. Not exactly a fair fight.
Hence the whole reason Wemby gets annoyed.
Plus the media keeps pestering both of them about it. I’ll be sick of it too
Honestly I think not that much. Just reporters keep on asking him about it which is probably getting tiring at some point when they’re not really comparable
His entire brain is Chet land
Chet supposedly talked shit in front of Wemby’s mom and in that U18 game years ago, so I bet you would try to out perform that dude if you had the same job lol. Can’t talk shit directly in front of family and it seems Vic has never forgotten haha
Between zero and maybe a small corner in the junk drawer. Y’all are taking ESPN’s bait on this shit.
chet has never once worried, mentioned, or even cared about wemby.
It’s literally the biggest one sided rivalry right now and it all stems from wemby
Had to go back to his Shaolin ways
In return, Chet should go back to his vampire hunter ways.
It’s the most forced rivalry.
Chet has never shown once to care about wemby
Its more one sided than it will ever be all because of one guy’s jealousy lol.
It’s very manufactured by the league
I think it’s manufactured by the fans, not the league. People on /r/nba are constantly talking about this, yet I’ve never heard Wemby or Chet talk disrespectfully about each other off the court. The things that people have interpreted as wemby being disrespectful is just cultural differences (things lost in translation).
Media first, then this weird ass sub. When I talk ball with my friends, they think of it as a nothing burger. Sure they’re great games but not much of a rivalry. Get a couple playoff series under their belts first, then we can talk.
Tbh he has, but not more than Wemby. Chet got the message early on, didn’t talk much after that. Wemby is kind of petty, because he’s french and face of the franchise, so I get it. Love him always.
I know not everyone can pull it off, but the shaved head is a good look. Power to Wemby
Jaylen Brown, take notes!
If he doesn’t have a pen he can just run his finger over his fade.
/r/bald would love this
Nah they’d hate OP’s comment cause he said not everyone can pull it off.
They gas up some real megaminds over there god damn
Not megaminds 😂😂
That’s cause he really is an alien
White D nodding his head somewhere
Derrick looks soooo much better bald than he did with hair. Like night and day better. Fit and bald is fantastic because it just exudes confidence and rightfully so.
Pretty much every top 10 player all time minus bird went bald. So if he starts losing his hair, it’s over for the league
is it?
When he is looking down he looks like Tim lmao
He’s got the Last Airbender hairline
I was thinking The Vision
It kinda looks like he has a faded in arrow as if he was aang from the last air bender. Wemby is the avatar confirmed?
He has an intense widow’s peak that he shaves away when he grows his hair out. I briefly thought it was a birthmark or a smudge until I saw it closer up and realized he was just shaving his widow’s peak.
wow he legit has a vegeta hairline its sharp as hell
he was training with the air nation
I was going to comment exactly this but realized someone else must have noticed it too
just boys being boys
Alright but this makes him ever more the alien.
Guys bein dudes
Wemby has a year and a half til genpop turns on him
If they win a series, you’d see it by the start of next season lol.
Nah they’re gonna turn if he doesnt show up in the playoffs
They’re gonna turn if he shows up too.
It’s inevitable
ad seg cant contain this king
People said the same about Ant and despite the “send da video jokes” (which are funny sometimes to be fair) people still generally like him.
Minny isn’t relevant enough for people to care. If they start having some real success he’ll get plenty of hate, just like SGA most recently
MN is a good Medium market team. We’re not the Lakers or Knicks, nor have we won a chip, but we also aren’t a small market and we’ve made deep playoff runs the last few years while having good regular season records.
Also people found out some of those ladies were pros on the circuit with like 15 years on Ant so it felt less like a power imbalance.
He has pretty insane natural charisma tbf
I actually think it’s good that he’s starting off his career as a bit of an antihero. None of this will be new going forward.
Why the fuck does he kinda look like Tim Duncan here
I’ve first noticed it while watching a game, so it’s not only here…
I actually think he looks good with the bald head
What are they gonna shave if they lose to OKC again?
Full Brazilian wax
Imagine keldon gently adjusting wemby’s dong, as he tries to get every last hair
pause
We are done playing them for the year, i think.
One more game actually feb 4. Okc will be on b2b tho so im favouring the spurs that game
We play them again on Feb 4th
These guys act like 20 something dudes never just get together and shave their heads just for kicks.
I swear in the 90s once guys discovered clippers they’d all be shaving their heads and making bets to shave their head. All the sports guys did it at my high school.
That said, maybe there was some Shaolin influence there too. Wu-Tang Forever
Hell, I’m a chick and I even did that too when I was younger, hahaha.
It’s honestly just fun to take clippers to the noggin, everyone should try it!
When I was in high school and we’d go away on big tournaments, the whole team would shave their heads the morning of.
Wemby really strikes me as having that psychopathic mentality about winning. The extent he seems to take every loss personally is very surprising to me. They lost two games back to back and bro really said I gotta shave my entire head and lock back in
Yeah it’s actually kind of surprising. Feel like were haven’t seen a young star this intense about losing in a while.
He would often cry after losses back in the LMB, if memory serves. He’s a Kobe-level basketball psycho
we had been losing a little bit
Ohhhh, games! Not hair…
Such a team guy, 5 game losing streak will lead to a team brazilian wax session
lt could have been worse.
lmagine if they had lost against Kainan.
Slam Dunk
still 28-13 lol
Reminds me of Duncan shaving head before playoffs
This dudes gonna surprise everyone and retire very young and be a monk
Full beard incoming
Tall Frenchies shaving their heads is the trend this season.
His hairline is very Airbender
shaving your head bald while you still have a full head of hair. that was all Lebron needed to make it personal with him.
Air Bender hairline.
I love it. Commitment to the job
Need that r/bald meme but with the front guy so tall he’s outta frame lol
He’s channeling his inner Shaolin monk.
The peak in his hairline has him looking like an airbender which, given his hot monk summer, fits pretty well.
1999 NBA callback, when half the league was bald.
One hell of a widows peak
Victor Widowspeakyama
—I’ll see myself out.
Castle: that’s cool. Not me though
Those locks man
Reverse Samson
I have been having this in the back of my head for a little bit
Oh man, reading this, i thought he was saying he was growing a bald spot already. I was like, “wtf? isn’t this kid like 21 still??”
He looks like Mr Inbetween
Wemby is all about hoops. He’s KD wo the burner.
I hate bald boys! It reminds me of being in the pants.
I mean, he could get plugs. The ones I see rich people get are freaking incredible. Almost better than their original hair, somehow.
Tall aang, the last airbender
Got dang, I didn’t know cornballs grew that high.
his hair shape makes him look like the Avatar. Looks like grown up Aang.
He has a very strange hairline
He is aura farming but still isn’t on that level yet
His team is really good tho
Why are people talking about a dude getting a hair cut?
The shape of his hairline makes him look like an Airbender
The man has an existential crisis going 5-5 in a stretch with a bunch of legit teams. I LOVE IT!!!!
Wemby will turn bald for good very soon if he keeps shaving that head every time they lose a little bit often.
Dude really really hates losing. That’s a GOAT-level mark right there ! You love to see it
What does Keldon have?
Bro looks like a supervillain
“OK guys we lost a few, we gotta really lock in…” “How we do dat?” “How else, we shave our heads!” “Makes sense…”
This guy is a legend already
When he retires we’re gonna look back and remember he had hair. Like Kobe Bryant
Should have saved it for the playoffs or after winning something.
Keldon was gonna shave his head anyway, Wemby just joined him
He’ll shave it again for the playoffs.
Dumb
what does being bald have to do with locking in?
More aerodynamic
Not worried about your appearance anymore so you can focus on basketball. Sort of like the KD method
Not worried about appearance alters appearance lol
But it reduces the day-to-day maintenance
i mean doesn’t the US army force new recruits to shave their heads when they join? idk how much it helps but people definitely think shaving helps you lock in somehow
That’s not for the purpose of locking in it’s for the purpose of suppressing individuality.
The US Army does (or used to do) it to remove individuality and as the start of trying to break down recruits and for lack of a better word humiliate them and called it being a bonding exercise.
And then actively refused to do it to women joining the force to point out how they’re others and not the same as the men.
He locked his hairs in a safe
And will wait to be able to create a clone
Bro didn’t watch or read Slam Dunk
Someone has never been invited to the team bonding retreats