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I predict that 90% of the discouse on the internet related to Nicolas Claxton is centered around his choice of hairstyle. That’s a conservative estimate, and I’m not helping matters by penning this particular slab of Claxton-related discourse, but it’s understandable. I mean, Claxton’s hair looks like a bowl of pasta. How could you not talk about that?
As a man with long hair, I’m used to unasked-for comments directed towards my hair. Hopefully Claxton has a good attitude about it, because his wild look is certainly catching ten times the commentary that my look is getting, and that’s after you adjust for the relative level of exposure that each of us gets (he’s a professional basketball player that hundreds of thousands of people will see; I’m a Pop-Tart hermit who is averse to all things public).
My enthusiasm for longer-than-usual hair on dudes has also turned me into somebody who is always on the lookout for public figures who are pushing the envelope when it comes to audacious hairstyles. I fully support hair-based creativity. If Claxton wants to bleach his dreadlocks and look like a wacky cartoon character, I am 100% in support of that. If he takes the next step and dyes his hair rainbow colors, I’ll be a bit shocked, but in time, I would support that as well. If his hair grows down to his mid back, that would be rad as heck, although at that point I think it would break some kind of rule, what with it swinging all over the place and smacking people.
Oh yeah, and Claxton is a decent basketball player as well. He’s not just his hair, people! He’s probably better than DeAndre Jordan at this point, with his high level of activity and his lob-catching skill. Jordan might be mentoring Claxton here, or maybe Jordan is so disconnected from everything that he just never says anything to anybody and then goes home and counts his money, even while Claxton literally begs the veteran bigman for scraps of wisdom.