{"id":465,"date":"2008-07-26T09:56:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2008\/07\/26\/best-nba-separated-at-birth\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T16:56:41","slug":"best-nba-separated-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/26\/best-nba-separated-at-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Best NBA ‘Separated At Birth’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by Lang Whitaker<\/a><\/p>\n

Everybody looks likes someone sometimes\u2026<\/p>\n

Since we now know that ESPN the Magazine isn’t above jacking an idea without giving any credit<\/a>, I suppose I should do the same to them. But I won’t.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.)<\/p>\n

And away we go\u2026remember, don’t forget to add your lookalikes in the comments below\u2026<\/p>\n

Gilbert Arenas (self-portrait from adidas ad) – Junk Yard Dog
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Mike Bibby – Dr. Evil\/Mini Me
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Steve Blake – Gummo (main character from the movie)
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Andrew Bogut – Ashlee Simpson (pre-surgery)
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Bruce Bowen – Droopy Dog
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Kwame Brown – guy from movie “The Air Up There”<\/p>\n



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Mike Brown – The Grimace<\/p>\n


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PJ Brown – Willem Dafoe
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Andrew Bynum – Tracy Morgan
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Rick Carlisle – Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
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Sam Cassell – ET; Gollum
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Nick Collison – Sam Rubenstein
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Danny Crawford (ref) – Kwesi Mfume
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Mark Cuban – Joaquin Phoenix; Elephant Boy from The Howard Stern Show
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Baron Davis – Kanye West
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Big Baby Davis – Fat Albert
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Michael Finley – Billy Ocean
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Kevin Garnett – Heidi from “The Apprentice” season one
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Devean George – The Grinch; the Chicago Bulls logo
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Manu Ginobili – Rick Reilly, Balki from Perfect Strangers
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Drew Gooden – New Orleans’ mayor Ray Nagin
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Rip Hamilton (with braids) – Jar Jar Binks
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Del Harris – Leslie Nielsen
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Walter Herrmann – Fabio
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Robert Horry – Will Smith
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Bobby Jackson – Don Cheadle
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Phil Jackson – Gandalf from Lord Of The Rings
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Anthony Johnson – Wyclef Jean
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Chris Kaman – guy from “Children Of The Corn”
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Kyle Korver – Ashton Kutcher
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Jason Kidd – Vin Diesel; MLB infielder Keith Lockhart
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Tyron Lue (with hair) – Li’l Bow Wow (when he was younger)
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Corey Maggette – Xzibit
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Donyell Marshall – Ludacris
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Andre Miller – Richard Pryor
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Mike Miller (long hair) – Hilary Swank
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Mike Miller (short hair) – Steve O
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Reggie Miller – dude from Star Trek
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Cat Mobley – Method Man
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Adam Morrison – Tina Fey
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Steve Nash – Gabriel Batistuta; Kelly Leak from The Bad News Bears
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Don Nelson – John Madden
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Nene (with hair) – Jules from Pulp Fiction
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Joakim Noah – Bizzie Bone
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Jim O’Brien – Reed Richards (Fantastic Four)
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Emeka Okafor – Taye Diggs
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Paul Pierce – Beetlejuice
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Gregg Popovich – James Woods
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Ahmad Rashad – Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons
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Zach Randolph – The son from Family Matters
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Nate Robinson – 50 Cent
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Brian Scalabrine – Michael Rapaport
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Wally Szczerbiak – Zoolander
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Robert Swift – Freddy Krueger
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Sebastian Telfair – Bucky from Fat Albert
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Kurt Thomas – R. Kelly
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Hedo Turkoglu – Alfred E. Newman
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Jeff Van Gundy – Gonzo from The Muppets
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Stan Van Gundy – Ron Jeremy
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Anderson Varejao – Sideshow Bob
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Ben Wallace (with hair out) – Fredrick Douglass
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Bonzi Wells – Jay-Z
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Shelden Williams – Mena Suvari
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