This week in fashion: the Miami Heat’s fascination with ‘nerd glasses’
May 12, 2012, 1:40 PM EDT
Getty Images There has been a scary trend entering NBA post game interviews and it has been players deciding to don fake/real spectacles in effort to make themselves look more sophisticated.
It has been called everything from “nerd swag” to “Urkel-like” and such stars as Miami’s Dwyane Wade and Lebron James have donned the glasses this playoff season. The real question is why would any NBA player want to don a pair?
Dwyane Wade tried his best to come up with a response to what the statement the players were trying to make with the glasses:
“I don’t know what the statement is,” Wade said. “Everybody wants to look smarter than what they are, I guess. I don’t know.”
If you look to the godfather of NBA eye wear on the NBA’s current bespectacled trend, former Lakers forward/head coach Kurt Rambis, he doesn’t have a good reason either:
“I think Buddy Holly would be proud,” Kurt Rambis said on ESPN. “I wore them to be functional.”
At the end of the day, the trend still has players that will never don the fake glasses under any circumstances:
“You won’t see me in them,” the Heat’s blue-collar forward, Udonis Haslem, said. “That’s just not me.”
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Some optic delusions in the NBA playoffs [Orlando Sentinel]
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- allmyteamsareterrible - May 12, 2012 at 3:54 PM
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If you can’t be intelligent you may as well look the part I guess.
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- namriverrat69 - May 12, 2012 at 4:21 PM
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Being some of the most self centered people on the planet in Miami and with an IQ in the low 80′s some people will do almost anything to look smarter than they really are.
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- redneckrick - May 12, 2012 at 10:47 PM
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Its cuz deez bruvas be dummasses who cant fink by demselves
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- allmyteamsareterrible - May 13, 2012 at 12:18 AM
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you’re an ass
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- redneckrick - May 15, 2012 at 9:41 PM
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ok
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- biggestredmiami - May 13, 2012 at 9:05 PM
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It’s part of the “hipster” phenomenon.
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- soflasfinest - May 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM
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Yaaa bc it’s JUST in Mia, Smh. It’s not like KD, Westbrook, KG or Rondo wear them or anything. Find better material and stop relying on the Heat for everything.
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- theghostofberniekosar - May 14, 2012 at 2:38 PM
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They look more like douche glasses to me.
