That barbershop they said they were gonna have in the NBA bubble must have opened up, because I’m looking at the thumbnail for the Jordan Clarkson vid I made a few games ago, and at the thumbnail for the Jordan Clarkson vid I just uploaded, and I’m noticing a severe lack of hair. What happened to his doodles?
Although, now that I think about it, it’s not like you would even need a professional barber to get rid of them. Just take some kitchen shears and lop them off. Then trim up the wonky parts with a shaver. Boom. Done. That’s what I did with my horrible goatee, and it didn’t any time at all. And then my face felt a million times lighter.
That’s probably why Clarkson did it. I haven’t crunched the numbers, comparing the stats of hirsute players to clean-shaven ones and normalizing for minutes, but having less hair is likely preferable to having more hair, purely from a basketball standpoint. You want to gain every competitive advantage you can, and being weighed down by an excessive coiffure makes it just that much harder to do what you want on the court. That’s why players shave their pits, too.