Is Aron Baynes, at this very moment, the most ridiculous looking NBA player? His pink-skinned doughy face adorned with a gigantic ginger beard and a tiny little topknot does not scream “normal looking dude” to me.
Big beards and small hair-tuft things are en vogue. Someone probably told Baynes that, or he figured it out himself, but he didn’t realize that you need to be conventionally attractive for those things to work. Otherwise, you end up looking even worse than before.
That clear mask just adds another layer, figuratively and literally, to his disaster of a “look”.
I can almost ignore his appearance in light of the 20 points he scored tonight in place of Andre Drummond. Almost. But not really, because these near-career-high highlights will always be tainted by his puffball beard and reverse tonsure.