The evidence is mounting that having a big poofy thing of hair just perched on top of your head leads to negative outcomes on the basketball court. It’s not always as bad as Elfrid Payton (where having a big unkempt mass jutting out made him change his shooting form so as to not hit it with the ball) or Carsen Edwards (where his dreads made it so that he couldn’t see the hoop), a lot of the time it’s just like, that’s a lot of hair. And it’s kind of getting in the way, or if it’s not in the way it needs to be maintained, and its weight isn’t 0, so you don’t get as much lift, etc.
I don’t know when Terrance Fergusion chopped his thing off, but it must have been recently, and this game, it totally paid off. His hair wasn’t as big as some other people’s hair (Coby White is the leader in this category and probably will be forever), but it was substantive, and now it’s mostly gone. His head looks so… round. Was his head always that round? He looks like a lightbulb. Maybe he should’ve kept the hair.
My next venture after I get tired of highlights (or maybe I can do it concurrently) is definitely going to be celebrity hair-analyst. I just need to think of a snazzy name for my upcoming hair analysis blog and I’ll really be raking in the big bucks.