CRAZIEST Transformations in NBA History..

one nba player got so many tattoos it ruined his life another gained so much weight you can't even recognize him these are the craziest transformations in nba history back in 1986 a young dennis rodman was just drafted to the pistons and at the time he looked like every other nba player but this wasn't going to last for long the first time we saw dennis get experimental with his look was in 1993 when he was traded to the spurs it sparked something odd in rodman he started dying his hair ridiculous colors and i'm talking colors like green and orange this was in the 90s you know it was a conservative time tattoos hair color it just wasn't accepted in society so rahman had a hard time fitting in he was constantly judged and perceived as crazy just for dyeing his hair but this was only the beginning when ryman was traded to the bulls joining michael jordan in 1995 he found something he'd been looking for his entire life acceptance you'd think being on a championship team with michael jordan they wouldn't want any distractions but chicago made rodman feel like family they embraced him and his crazy side for the first time rodman was able to truly be himself and with that dude started doing even crazier stuff to his hair i'm talking leopard print zigzags rainbows ribbons logos even scottie pippen's jersey number if it was a look rahman did it his hairstyle was changing every game and the fans in chicago loved it and the more fans cheered him on the more rodman started showing his true self hoop earrings nose piercings dresses fur coats tattoos painted nails ryman was the first nba player to ever portray themselves like this and when he was asked why he said chicago really embraced me so much if i did anything people would stand up and cheer i never got that before i was so happy energetic alive exuberant dyeing my hair dressing in drag it just all came naturally to me at first people were uncomfortable with ryman's look but they came to accept him now what people have never accepted is steven adams transformation stephen came into the nba as a pretty normal looking dude i mean if you consider being seven foot and 250 pounds normal he had no tattoos in sight and an average haircut so he didn't stand out at all and in 2013 he was drafted with the 12th pick to the thunder putting up a whopping 3.3 points and 4.1 rebounds per game yeah so there was a ton to be done on his game and appearance and with that he got to work but uh things got off to a rocky start i mean the dude grew out a mustache that should have had him banned from being anywhere near a school like look at this are you seeing this i i don't even want him near me but thankfully a year later he decided he was done being a creep or so i thought i i don't know how he managed to do it but uh he needs to stay even further away from schools and me but this was all part of his master plan he continued growing out his hair and beard bulked up and inked out his entire arm and chest transforming himself from a dork to aquaman but was his transformation for reasons as deep as dennis rodman well he admitted that he was just tired of spending sixty dollars on a haircut dude you just signed a hundred million dollar contract why do you even care about 60 never mind you do you i guess but at least adams didn't turn into a complete freak like yona sante de cumpo he came into the nba as a six foot eight 190 pound kid and you may think that's huge but that is small compared to what he transformed into before giannis's rookie year started he actually admitted i'm not ready i have a lot of work ahead of me but i'm not afraid i'll give everything on the court in the gym and i'll prove to the bucks that they made the right choice but even though he tried his hardest he only put up around 7 points 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game giannis wasn't even putting up alonzo ball numbers so giannis knew he had some bulking up to do and if he didn't do it fast his dreams of nba stardom would fade so yanis dedicated everything to the gym during his second season he grew three inches and gained 27 pounds making him six foot 11 and 217 pounds he was literally becoming a freak right in front of our eyes but there was something big holding giannis back he didn't drop a like and subscribe to the channel yeah that's right we got the power to make you a freak ooh so what are you doing but uh not supporting the channel wasn't the only thing holding him back early in giannis's career he was addicted to mcdonald's chick-fil-a and wendy's he knew if he didn't give up the big macs and baconators his career and health would be ruined so he started eating six meals per day all filled with clean carbs protein fruits and vegetables and he locked himself in the gym six days a week and within just a few seasons he went from a bench player to a face of the league janus put on nearly 25 more pounds now weighing 242 his 12 inch hands became the biggest in the nba and his achilles grew to 13.5 inches double the length of an average male i mean that right there is why giannis can do this it has been incredible here he comes again goodness and the greek basketball god raining down on the pistons this dude crossed the entire court with one dribble jesus coming off back-to-back mvp seasons janice just put up 29.5 points 13.6 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game i mean there's a reason they call him the greek freak and i get it yeah giannis is a freak but at least his transformation didn't scare me this next dude turned himself damn near to a halloween costume chris anderson developed a scary addiction that only inc could fill and it all started in 2001 when chris was picked number one in the nba d-league draft but after only two games there he became the first ever d-league player called up to an nba team and when he joined the nuggets chris looked like any other player yeah he had a few tattoos but nothing crazy yet then in 2004 chris signed with new orleans and his entire appearance started changing chris started putting on 15 tattoos a season and no one understood why he was getting tatted so much little did the world know chris was living a secret double life and in 2006 it was brought to light apparently chris tested positive for multiple hard drugs and was immediately banned from the nba for two seasons so with all this free time chris had nothing to do but continue getting tatted the first one was the chinese gun right when i got back from china you know me and my mother went and got our tattoos our first tattoos together and after that just never stopped and just kept going back and back well at least tim and his mom have matching tats now that's cute and in 2008 chris returned to the nuggets with about double the tattoos he had before he left people were shocked but even though he was thankful for the opportunity to play basketball again it didn't last long in 2012 news came out that halted everything private photos of an instagram model he was dating surfaced all over the internet and chris being the only suspect was raided by police this was the hardest time in his life even worse is that it turned out it was a hacker who leaked the photos and to be honest the entire situation gets really complex and the accusations get more serious he was even let go from the nuggets but to make the situation simple chris ended up not facing any charges for the allegations but it took months to prove that and with him being exiled from the nba until things were cleared up chris only had one thing to do in the meantime get more tattoos so by the time he came back to the nba dude looked like a damn halloween costume what's the most meaningful tattoo you've got on the body oh yeah yeah what's the most expensive one you got on you no no none of them you didn't pay for any of them i'm a walking billboard no way all from the same artist absolutely yeah oh how many in total do you have on the body i wonder how much to get a rebound tattoo maybe on his forehead i'm trying to promote this channel everywhere man we're too close to a milli and you want to know who else struggled joel embiid this dude had to make it to the nba from africa and growing up for embiid was anything but normal by the time he turned 13 he was already six feet tall well on his way to becoming a professional volleyball player yeah yeah you heard me right volleyball growing up in cameroon volleyball was the most popular sport in his area it was like embiid had no choice which worked out perfectly because he was super skinny and light but everything changed in 2009 embiid walked into his living room turned on the tv and when he saw kobe bryant it was love at first sight see embiid accidentally watched the 2009 nba finals between the magic and the lakers and he knew from that moment on basketball was his new passion but there was a problem he didn't know a thing about basketball and he was literally a twig already being six foot ten at fifteen years old and b knew he had the potential but only if he put the work in so he played on broken hoops in cameroon but couldn't make a three to save his life he even tried yelling kobe but that didn't work either so embiid was left with no choice he turned to the one mentor he had in life youtube so i'm chilling one night and i go on youtube i'm thinking i'm about to figure this shooting thing out i go to the search box like how to shoot three pointers nah how to shoot good form nah then a light bulb went off in my head man i typed the magic words white people shooting three pointers damn right my jump shot's buttery smooth and with that embiid finally learned how to shoot so when he turned 16 he had his moment he was discovered at a basketball camp by nba player luke moba moote luke saw embiid size at such a young age and immediately knew he had what it took to go pro he just needed to put on some serious size so luke moved him beat out to the us and helped him put on another 55 pounds by the end of high school then another 35 during college reaching 280 pounds and seven feet tall by the time of his draft in 2014. the issue was most of it was fat and with fat comes injuries so the first two years of his career were completely derailed he didn't play a single game those two seasons because he kept getting injured during practice and embiid realized he may never play a game in the nba if he doesn't drop the fat so with a lot of work embiid is now listed at seven foot two 280 pounds except this time it's all muscle and hey it's showing and beads having the best season of his career so far in 2021 that's just what happens you make up your mind and get it done but russell westbrook definitely couldn't make up his mind and it all started when he was drafted he had a buzz cut that made him look exactly like a ninja turtle i mean come on tell me he doesn't look like raphael and in 2015 he started playing his best basketball so with all eyes on him he went on a haircut rampage the man was changing his cut like once a week it started with this and then went to this damn westbrook's barbara need to hook me up i'm over here looking like steven adams god damn it but once katie left okc westbrook officially became the face of the team and his fades got even more crisp westbrook stuck with these types of hairstyles throughout the rest of his thunder career but once he was traded to houston he created a hairstyle that i can't even explain and when he debuted it twitter didn't hold back with the jokes damn near turning this man into a meme again but eventually westbrook heard all the clowning and got tired of it so he went back to his more normal look and it's probably not a coincidence that he's playing his worst basketball in a decade so fans have gotten pretty disrespectful i mean there's a lot of videos of fans disrespecting westbrook to his face and the disrespect doesn't stop there players have had drinks food and even chairs thrown at them oh you want to hear more about that well click on this video right here these were the times that nba fans went too far and it gets insane so what are you still doing here this video is over click it

Channel: REBOUND

Views: 5,873,500

Keywords: nba, rebound central, rebound, giannis antetokounmpo, joel embiid

Id: L4QoE9MHO0s

Length: 13min 47sec (827 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 19 2021