Since we now know that ESPN the Magazine isn’t above jacking an idea without giving any credit, I suppose I should do the same to them. But I won’t.
I saw a link the other day to something on ESPN the Mag’s website which was billed as a list of all the celebrity/athlete lookalikes in sports, and I was pretty disappointed by their brevity as well as lack of creativity. Heck, we’ve been doing just NBA/celebrity lookalikes for nearly 7 years on The Links, and I was almost certain I could come up with more on my own.
Then I started thinking about it and realized that someone needs to create the world’s most comprehensive list of NBA lookalikes. So I’m going to run the list of all the lookalikes I can come up with, and you guys feel free to supplement the list in the comments section with your own observations. And for the record, I’m only using current players, coaches and refs.
Anyway, here are ones we’ve done on SLAMonline over the last 8 years. Some of them were mine, some came from the SLAM staff, and a lot came from you guys. Any photos used in this post were made over the last seven years, either by me or you guys. (Oh, and by the way NBA Friday — Fri-day! Yes! — will pick back up next week.)
And away we go…remember, don’t forget to add your lookalikes in the comments below…
Gilbert Arenas (self-portrait from adidas ad) — Junk Yard Dog
Mike Bibby — Dr. Evil/Mini Me
Steve Blake — Gummo (main character from the movie)
Andrew Bogut — Ashlee Simpson (pre-surgery)
Bruce Bowen — Droopy Dog
Kwame Brown — guy from movie “The Air Up There”
Mike Brown — The Grimace
PJ Brown — Willem Dafoe
Andrew Bynum — Tracy Morgan
Rick Carlisle — Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
Sam Cassell — ET; Gollum
Nick Collison — Sam Rubenstein
Danny Crawford (ref) — Kwesi Mfume
Mark Cuban — Joaquin Phoenix; Elephant Boy from The Howard Stern Show
Baron Davis — Kanye West
Big Baby Davis — Fat Albert
Michael Finley — Billy Ocean
Kevin Garnett — Heidi from “The Apprentice” season one
Devean George — The Grinch; the Chicago Bulls logo
Manu Ginobili — Rick Reilly, Balki from Perfect Strangers
Drew Gooden — New Orleans’ mayor Ray Nagin
Rip Hamilton (with braids) — Jar Jar Binks
Del Harris — Leslie Nielsen
Walter Herrmann — Fabio
Robert Horry — Will Smith
Bobby Jackson — Don Cheadle
Phil Jackson — Gandalf from Lord Of The Rings
Anthony Johnson — Wyclef Jean
Chris Kaman — guy from “Children Of The Corn”
Kyle Korver — Ashton Kutcher
Jason Kidd — Vin Diesel; MLB infielder Keith Lockhart
Tyron Lue (with hair) — Li’l Bow Wow (when he was younger)
Corey Maggette — Xzibit
Donyell Marshall — Ludacris
Andre Miller — Richard Pryor
Mike Miller (long hair) — Hilary Swank
Mike Miller (short hair) — Steve O
Reggie Miller — dude from Star Trek
Cat Mobley — Method Man
Adam Morrison — Tina Fey
Steve Nash — Gabriel Batistuta; Kelly Leak from The Bad News Bears
Don Nelson — John Madden
Nene (with hair) — Jules from Pulp Fiction
Joakim Noah — Bizzie Bone
Jim O’Brien — Reed Richards (Fantastic Four)
Emeka Okafor — Taye Diggs
Paul Pierce — Beetlejuice
Gregg Popovich — James Woods
Ahmad Rashad — Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons
Zach Randolph — The son from Family Matters
Nate Robinson — 50 Cent
Brian Scalabrine — Michael Rapaport
Wally Szczerbiak — Zoolander
Robert Swift — Freddy Krueger
Sebastian Telfair — Bucky from Fat Albert
Kurt Thomas — R. Kelly
Hedo Turkoglu — Alfred E. Newman
Jeff Van Gundy — Gonzo from The Muppets
Stan Van Gundy — Ron Jeremy
Anderson Varejao — Sideshow Bob
Ben Wallace (with hair out) — Fredrick Douglass
Bonzi Wells — Jay-Z
Shelden Williams — Mena Suvari
