What has to be the most annoying thing in the world is for your dreadlocks to pop out of their container while you’re trying to ball. Then you have to run around and try to focus on the ball and your man while hair strings are flying around your face getting in your way. THEN you have to decide when you can slack off enough on defense to try to put the hair strings back in their place so you can focus again.
That’s why DeMarre Carroll has to grow his dreads out to at least three times their current length. That way, they’ll be so long that they’re at no risk of falling out of whatever band or scrunchie he uses to keep them attached to his head. It will also look way cooler when he’s running. You know how cool Kenneth Faried looks with those delicate hair strings flying everywhere when he dunks? Carroll could look that cool too. Except he would have to dunk it more often.
Another option would just be to wear a hat during the game. That way the dreads will all stay in one place. I wonder why players haven’t thought of his before? Any dude would look cooler with a sideways baseball cap on their head while playing. Or one of those puffy Rasta bag-hat-things. As long as you coordinated with your uniform I don’t see why anybody would complain.