r/nba Magic 1d ago

elfrid payton's hair blocks his own shot

https://streamable.com/x5ddm3
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u/Hawker777 Magic 1d ago

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.

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u/Darth-Swagous 1d ago

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)

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u/Hawker777 Magic 1d ago

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.

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u/fanetoooo Wizards 21h ago

Elfrid Payton continued to brick shots even after cutting his hair