Lebron debuts the new bald look
Wow it really suits him, he should’ve done this sooner!
He did it. He really went full Unc.
He’s gotta bust out a headband for at least one game this year to go with the cueball pay homage to Caruso.
Headband, bald head and grey beard. Maybe goggles to complete the look
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unironically the bald look makes him look younger. Idk why. It suits him
Well it also looks like he dyed his beard again but other than that I agree
Idk why he dyed it, he was rocking the gray beard and everything.
looks like a red carpet event , probably wants to look good
You say that as if gray beard doesn’t look good
If you don’t want to look older it definitely makes a difference
shaved head/bald > balding/thinning
The r/bald classic look
take a trip over to r/bald to see this effect over and over again lol. Honestly just check it out in general its a fun wholesome sub.
full unc is growing it out without whatever tricks he’s playing and saying fuck it, always wanted balding fro durant like it was 1979
It was jarring for me when Kobe did it. This looks beyond natural.
Kobe actually still had a good head of hair when he started shaving his head. Like there was ‘bald Kobe’ and ‘Kobe with hair’ but I dont remember the ‘balding Kobe’ era.
I think by 2009 he was always shaving his head.
My bro has that Jude Law balding pattern and as soon as it started he didn’t like it and started shaving it off. You don’t have to be dire to start shaving your head.
Kobe was bald when he was a rookie, so he just went back to his roots.
to his roots
ba dum tish
probably cause Lebron didn’t rock a LeFro in his LeEarly years
Didn’t he rock a LeFro in his highschool years?
“The kid with the Nappy Fro is legit.”
Context:
Summer 2001, ABCD Camp — the elite Adidas showcase where the nation’s top high school players faced off. LeBron was a 16-year-old rising junior from Akron, and at that point he still wasn’t a household name. Lenny Cooke, two years older, was ranked higher than LeBron in high school at the time — Cooke was considered the No. 1 player in the country.
Then LeBron went at him head-to-head and dominated, most famously hitting a game-winner over him. That performance is basically the moment “the kid from Akron” got discovered on the national stage, and the “Nappy Fro” line captured it — nobody knew his name yet, just the hair.
LeBron won MVP at the 2001 ABCD camp, and within a year he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated as “The Chosen One.” Cooke, meanwhile, went undrafted in 2002 and never played in the NBA.
LeBron on the clips resurfacing around 2022:
Wow! Never seen some of this footage before. Well I wish I still had that Nappy Afro!”
Kobe’s fro was iconic tbh. That’s why the bald look was so weird at first. But he looked good once he grew out the beard with it
I think Kobe pulled it off well too tbh
He’s a tall, black man, in great shape with a beard. It would be hard for him to look bad bald.
Would be nigh on impossible lol. Even if he was in meh shape. He’s got the perfect head shape for it. Honestly I always believed he should have went bald 10 years ago
99% of people who are balding to the point he was should just shave it all off. Half the head of hair is gone- let it all go, as difficult as it is. /Bald is one of the most wholesome and oddly satisfying subreddits I’ve come across on this site in over a decade.
He was just too vain. The bald head is a good look for him, but it does age him a bit.
I’m not in denial, I’m just too lazy to keep it shaven
My bro and BIL shave once a week, honestly upkeep doesn’t seem horrendous. And it comes out clean af. I wouldn’t think twice if I was at their stage.
That’s what my wife said to me a few months ago… only it’s not celebrated as widely in my circle… lol
Her opinion is honestly the one that holds the most weight…
You shouldn’t comment on the weight of a wife of another man.
You shouldn’t comment on the wife of another man’s weight.
Only if the other man waits for the wife while her weight is referenced by another wife’s man should a man comment about said wife’s weight in the presence of that man.
Maybe he’s only really accepted baldness recently. Back then, he kept moving his headband up to hide the recession. Then a few years ago at this time of the year he would’ve ‘miraculously’ revitalized his hairline lol. Glad to see he’s done with that shit (maybe?)
Yea probably got tired of trying to maintain it at this point
I’ll never forget he had the FRESHEST dark Caesar at the LeBron XII launch and a week later was back to thin Minoxidil Bron at practice
LeBron XII Launch
LeBron 2014 Season Opener
r/bald punching the air right now after getting LeBron this offseason.
He was in denial that he was balding. Didn’t he get a transplant in the past?
He’s got the perfect head shape for it
Yeah, his head looks fine. I don’t know what he was waiting for. It just made him seem like he was in denial holding out for so long.
I started going bald in my 20s and was always of the belief that a shaved head always looks better than an obvious cover up. It just goes to show that even with all of the money in the world, a transplant and meds don’t always work for everybody.
Lebron came home with his hair therefore this must be confirmation he’s heading back to Cleveland
He finally came home -Chuck
New beard too. The gray is gone
Makes me wonder how long that thing has been gray for
I thought it was graying noticeably in the bubble.
big time. there was a game he was showing salt, then literally the next one it was back to being jet black lol. guess he’s got one more thing to accept
He gets blood from rookies to get younger. This shit can’t keep going on like this for much longer
Maybe that’s what Dray meant by wait till training camp….omg Yax!
I get older, they stay the same age. Alright alright alright.
I don’t sympathize with these mega rich ballers much, but when it comes to losing hair/going grey, I understand that any guy might need a bit of time to accept it, lol.
As a bald dude since I was 28, my biggest regret is joy being able to rock the salt and pepper hair. So now that my beard is starting to show some grey, I’m happy as fuck.
Always felt like the grey is a fire look tbh.
It was already super gray on the edges when he first showed up in the Bubble.
Guess the Lakers made him feel old, young Bron is back
He sure does love that Dagestan chin strap beard
4 stripes white belt? Who give him?
2-3 years Cleveland and forget
We have to check
LeBron smesh nba next season
Gotta get a carpet is clean on top
The Dagestan has no mustache tho.
LeJustForMen
Now that he’s bald I want to see him without the beard too. Fully clean shaven like Jordan.
followed by the Hitler stash look
MJ had giant balls to show up in that Hanes (or whatever) commercial with that
Yup. I shaved my head because of male pattern baldness. Thankfully, I’ve got a pretty well shaped head, so it works. But the day the gray starts taking over my beard… I’m coloring it. I’m not ready to be bald with a gray beard until I’m at least in my 60s.
No way bro, rock that gray with pride. You earned that shit.
I’ve been bald more than half my life. It never bothered me, even though it was noticeably thinning by 18.
When the first grey showed up in my beard I freaked out. I eventually calmed down about it and now I’m halfway to the full white beard.
Wow he’s really bald bald
Bro probably went to /r/bald and finally listened to them lol.
Omg he’s hot
LeCaliente
Every. LeTime.
They’re about to go nuts over this
Black Mr Clean
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can’t afford the turkey trips on a vet min
He’s probably tried everything and spent a lot on it. It’s a losing battle. This is def the best solution for him.
It almost looks like a 5 o’clock shadow of a cul-de-sac/receding hairline in certain angles.
It’s over leagues fucked. He’s reached his final form. Bald bron about to dominate the league and win another chip.
Savannah…with all due respect
Outta the park… respectfully
The baldness took me off guard I didn’t even realize the fine shyt in the foreground
Do you not understand RESPECTFULLY?
Clapping that thunderously with all due respect
I respectfully refuse to respect due to the level of fineness on display
RIGHT!? THAT’S BRONNY’S MOM JFC
On god, I guess LeBron isn’t the only one aging like fine wine
He’s only old for an NBA player. They’re both still young.
True, I guess 40 isn’t actually that old in regular life lol
Being embroiled in sports talk most of my life I have to remind myself that being in your 30’s doesn’t mean you have one foot in the grave as a non-pro-athlete, lol.
Yeah, 30 years old is basically when a majority of people are starting to finally put their career in second gear. Like, if you wanna have a PhD and be a Professor, for example, basically no chance of that happening before you’re 30 lol.
And rich as fucking Croesus
As someone older than LeBron, I can say ~40 = 🍼 but ~50 = ♿️.
Savannah had a massive glow up
Yeah she changed her whole style after coming to LA. Hair, makeup, all that. She legit looks hotter than she was 10 years ago.
LA has the best plastic surgeons in the country
Yup she definitely had some work done. Although I must say Savannah has fantastic taste. Whatever she did, she looks so naturally beautiful and not at all like a scary caricature. Not that she wasn’t beautiful before, but she looks almost perfect now, and it’s a different style from the stereotypical Kardashian/Selling Sunset beauty standard.
So strange
Yeah I don’t recall her ever being that hot when Lebron first came to the league.
But yeah, she’s aging a lot better, but money also helps with that.
She was very young back then and never cared much about standing out. She was also busy being a mother to so many kids. Now the kids are all grown up and she can chill
Also the LeBron “cheating” rumors appeared out of nowhere 10 years ago. So many hot IG models and th0ts tried to slide in. That’s when Savannah locked in
Lmao the Savannah origin story
Yeah they didn’t have much money then lol it’s easier to be hot when having the best surgeons money can buy lol
At lot of rich celebrities have money and look horrible and obviously fake once they go down the surgery route. You have to know which surgeries to get and how far to push it. Savannah likely has had work done but has managed to keep it within range where it’s believable that it’s natural
Her plastic surgeon is incredible. Look at her pics from pre 2010 to now lol
Ask Mark Jackson to say it again
LePeakaBoo
RESPECTFULLY
CAREFULLLLLLL
WOULD
Will…
DID
Nice
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Would have been better if he embraced the grey beard too but baby steps I suppose.
bald head, grey beard, dunking on youngings. That’d be so hot.
Sign me up
Turns out when Kyrie was making uncle Drew shit he was really just trying to copy LeBron in 10 years.
I mean, I get it. He’s still a professional athlete after all; where being old equals declining/bad
That would kinda add to his lore tho. This bald gray bearded geezer dunking on kids who weren’t even born when his career started. He’s obviously shown that he’s no regular 50 year old.
Bro he’s 41
Dang he looks good for 61
He dominates the nursing home, walker-basketball courts
r/bald hand on shoulders meme.
But straining to reach up with the shoulders out of frame
These are the times I wish r/nba allowed embedded images in the comments like other subs
That’s what I wanted to post but this sub doesn’t allow for this greatness
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why are you actively scrolling for the most boring bot comment imaginable
ALePecia
LeBron to the Clippers confirmed
Savannah is so damn fine
I just realized how crazy it is that Lebron, Messi and Djokovic are all married to their high school sweet hearts (who are all very hot), each one is arguably the GOAT in his respective sport, and all three are still currently playing at an elite level despite them each being ~40 years old.
It’s absolutely wild that we’ve been able to witness these three wholesome dads do what they’ve done over the past two decades all at the same time and we’re still getting to see it.
And after they each retire in the next couple years, we’ll get to keep watching the most wholesome dude of all Shohei Ohtani become the baseball GOAT.
There’s never going to be a time like this again.
I do think that to reach their level you have to pretty much save all your mental energy for the sport. So not going out chasing women and messing with IG models and just chilling out home gives them a big advantage.
And having the psychological support and never feeling truly alone in bad moments.
I think history would be very different if they were single guys even with the same level of talent.
yep definitely, the discipline instilled by their sport are spilling out on their personal lives too, or vice versa
I know we like to give Lebron all the props for handling generational pressure to succeed and still exceeding all expectations of him and he has also been a very largely unproblematic/great role model of a superstar in a world full of shitty people… So with that all said… Lebron has absolutely been caught sliding into DMs a few years back lol
Granted a “few years back” for Lebron is probably like over a decade ago at this point and I am just too scared to look it up to feel old again. So, at least back in the day, he just kept his stuff drama free and out of the spotlight (not that is should really matter to the public)
Idk about Djokovic (though it’s probably the same for him), but LeBron and Messi live incredibly strict, structured lives based solely around working out, training, competing, and family. They really don’t even have space for anything else, no way would they want to ever fuck with the system by dating or whatever. I wonder how much finding a teammate like that when you’re young really affects your career though, probably hugely.
I believe Djoko, Fed and Nadal all been with the same woman since they were pretty young and have lived scandal free lives.
Idk who he’s dating but in 15 years Pogacar gonna still be doing it too and still looking 14
He’s been with fellow Slovenian cyclist Urška Žigart since they were teens. No kids yet, but I’d say you can add him to the list.
15-16 Years in the making by Charles Barkley, Lebron is finally coming home
that Barkley headband meme has been around longer than other players entire careers lol
Anthony Davis and Damian Lillard were rookies when Chuck joked about how high up Lebron’s headband was
Reading this made my lower back hurt.
I can’t believe this has come full circle.
He’s been shaving his head most of the season hasn’t he?
Nah he went over it with a guard so there was always a little bit of Lefuzz
Lefuzz was great
He had that Chris Paul bald fade
No just buzzed it with like a 1 or 2 mm but this is an actual razor blade shave
Doesn’t he have a thing where he shaves his head in the offseason? I remember social media posts years back of his off season training with a shaved head.
I think both of those times he got hair transplants which work better if you shave your head (not that it made a difference in the end). This time it looks like he shaved it close with a razor.
He’s been bald…
he’s just finally out of the closet
*Gif of the guys that are bald with hand on shoulder of newly bald guy*
Lemme fucking tell you. Finally shaving your head after holding onto whatever little strings of youth you had left on top of your head is the most releasing and euphoric feeling ever. I started losing my hair when I was in high school and didn’t finally take the ol razor blade dance till I was 23. I’m 35 now and it was the best feeling ever. Welcome to bald brotherhood LeBron. You finally did it you sonofabitch.
My 30th birthday present to myself was finally letting go and shaving my head. Best decision I could have made, it feels so much better
Le Chromedome.
Damn he should’ve kept the gray beard then rocked the bald. Would’ve been awesome.
Would’ve been really Master Roshi vibes
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Sad news about the Ryan Hurst show, by the way. :(
as the prophecy (Game of Zones) foretold
I think this confirms that Draymond might go bald too if LeBron goes to the Warriors
Shams: LeBron news making new teammates rip their hair out
Much better.
I think he should have gone bald years ago. He has a good head shape for it.
Wasted all those hair transplants and still ended up where he should have started.
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Men lose an average of 5% of their hair every year. LeBron is going into his 23rd season finally bald. 5% for 23 years is 115%. Just another example of how he outlived the expectations.
He lost his hair a long time ago. He use to wear double headbands back in the day to hide his receding hairline and eventually moved to treatments to regrow his hair. It’s good to see that he stopped fighting it and finally embraced the bald look because it suits him.
First sign that he’s ready to retire
Even at his advanced age he still bald out last season so dude can celebrate it with a new do if he wants.
Looks great on him. Glad he made the decision
LeDyed beard
fuck man. hes finally entering his prime
He has come home
Did the algorithm keep recommending him posts from r/bald too?
His head now looks like the Golden State Warriors logo. Is this a sign?
Didn’t even see Lebron until 4 replays
Bout time
That shit shiny he really is my sunshine
Finally he came home
I’ll never understand why he fought it so long. He looks great
This is the start of his 5th prime. Bald LeBron will go on to have a HOF worthy career.
His wife does not age wtf
Shiny
Next we’re gonna see stars start shaving their heads in solidarity as part of their bid to sign him
Fucking Wemby ahead of the curve once again
Back in the day the Pacers went bald for the playoffs. Rik Smits looked a little odd, but it was a fun time.
Oh shit. He’s found his mamba form