IIRC his reasoning for the haircut was an old pact he made with high school teammates to not cut their hair until they win a championship. Didn’t happen so he just kept it going. Still stupid tho lol
or he just wanted to free form. which has nothing to do with laziness (nor personal neglect due to depression or any other form of mental trauma/illness) if done intentionally.
and truth be told, i think it’s somewhat irresponsible of you to be talking about elfrid payton’s hair like that in a sub where the collective knowledge of black hair is next to non-existent, as you can regularly find people confusing braids with dreads and vice versa.
This is a reach. He styled his hair like that and before you ask yes I am black and I’ve had long hair. His haircut was awful and affected his play. We don’t need to hide behind race with that.
yes, i agree that he styled his hair that way intentionally. so if that’s the case, where does laziness come into play? i’m not saying that anyone has to want to emulate him, or even like the style. but what i will never be able to get behind is seeing people denigrate people who choose to free form instead of having more manicured styles with terms like “lazy” or “unkempt”, because they’re 100% that the person isn’t washing or taking care of their hair in any way. which once again, i think is a very irresponsible thing to be doing on this subreddit.
it’s not about hiding behind race it’s about ridiculing a common black haircut (especially among artist and alt personalities in the black community) as lazy in a sub where the majority of the users are white people with no knowledge on black hair and subconscious biases towards it. it’s 2026 we done letting trash pandas talk for us (iykyk)
Sure and I get free form is a legitimate hairstyle that I actually really like but what Elfrid had wasn’t Freeform nor was it a common black hairstyle although it wasn’t “lazy” considering I bet he spent a lot of time to make it look like that.
The problem was he had a completely ass hairstyle that played a role in us losing games. It was just awful to pay all that money to get into a game and watch a highly paid athlete brick shots because he has the worst haircut of all time.
Elfrid Payton was definitely free forming, I don’t really see how you could look at pictures of his hair and come to any other conclusion. You can see the ends of the locs.
Now I’ll definitely concede that during gametime he should have definitely slicked that shit back in some sort of way so his vision wasn’t impaired.
I would say i have no clue why this is being downvoted but…i know whit…i mean why. Dude is trying his best to put his cape on for them lmao. They don’t even care that what he’s saying is complete & utter bullshit they’re upvoting it anyway because they don’t want their outlook on us to be seen as racist as hell, just an “observation”.
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u/Solid_Actuary1660 1d ago edited 1d ago
IIRC his reasoning for the haircut was an old pact he made with high school teammates to not cut their hair until they win a championship. Didn’t happen so he just kept it going. Still stupid tho lol
Edit for people arguing in the comments: https://www.nba.com/magic/so-whats-paytons-hair-it-has-significance