Self-Proclaimed No. 5 Sweatiest GuyAs a writer, sometimes you never know what you’re going to stumble upon when you walk into a locker room. Sometimes guys are clowning with one another; other times they’re counting their bankroll. But in the Blazers locker room the other day, Channing Frye and teammate Joel Przybilla were talking about sweat.
While Frye sweats more than anyone else on the Blazers, changing his shirt an average of three times in any given practice because it becomes so wet, he placed four guys ahead of him in his list of the Top Five Sweatiest Guys In The NBA.
1. Nick Collison, Oklahoma City
2. Shaquille O’Neal, Phoenix
3. Zach Randolph, New York
4. Malik Rose, New York
5. Channing Frye, Portland
6. Greg Oden, Portland (The list had to be extended to six this week after Frye spent time guarding teammate Greg Oden in practice)
While Frye explained that, “some dudes just sweat a lot because they went out the night before,” he said that the sweat factor doesn’t have an effect on how he guards an opponent.
“It just makes it grosser when they fall on you, or if you try to take a charge, or of there is a scuffle. When your face gets stuck in their jersey? Ugh. I mean, your own sweat is pretty gross. But everyone else’s sweat is nasty. And Collison … he’s just gross.”
Who would you say is the sweatiest guy in the NBA?
Source: The Oregonian
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November 17th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
MBE18 says:
He should be grateful he never had to play against Patrick Ewing!!!
November 17th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
SteveNash says:
oh boy… PATRICK EWING looked like a faucet
November 17th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
dat dood says:
i totally feel this. i hate guarding the sweaty guy on the court.
and is it just me, or does it seem like the sweatiest guy is the one who is always banging on defense, or getting all up in your shit trying to post on offense. it’s like he is using the grossness as a weapon. makes you not guard him as tight because you aint trying to feel his sweat.
btw, i have actually been lit up in games because i just let the sweaty freak drive right past me to avoid the nasty.
November 18th, 2008 at 12:03 am
S-SiN says:
throw in the lack of liking for showers with some guys and you’ve got yourself a pretty disguisting experience that can last in your memory for a while. i used to know a dude who’d straight up make the gym funky when he showed up. green nasty toenails and everything. i mean u could hang a hatchet on the air around that filthy mutha. he could ball, but that ain’t the reason i was always trying to get on his team know what im sayin?
November 18th, 2008 at 12:18 am
A-Slam says:
d-wade sweats a shitload i remember in the finals in an interview sweat was just leaking down his go-t and on to the interviewer’s microphone
November 18th, 2008 at 12:29 am
M says:
MJ sweated a lot as well.
November 18th, 2008 at 12:42 am
solomon says:
LOL
frye could’ve quit balling and called it a career if he experienced played against ewing in his “sweat” prime LOL
November 18th, 2008 at 1:02 am
gamebl0uses says:
chauncey is a sweaty dude, too.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Big V says:
Ewing and Jordan were a mess.
Guarding the sweaty guy just sucks. I don’t even feel like handchecking the dude when he’s trying to post up. Just nasty.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Austin Burton says:
Kendrick Perkins. Pay attention the next time the C’s are on TV.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:54 am
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November 18th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Steve Nasty says:
Covering the big issues hey
November 18th, 2008 at 9:05 am
JCARR says:
Sweatiest guy in the NBA is by far Shaq before the tip is even thrown he is sweating. And the pre-game warm up can’t make him sweat because he doesnt do anything during warm up.
Sweat sucks… i play at the local Y with this guy named reggie. WOW. he brings four shirts, two towels, and thats still not enough. at times when we stop playing to check the ball there would be a huge puddle of sweat where he was standing. And oh man if he fell for some reason, it was like a kiddie pool.
Movie- Along Came Polly- scene where they are playing bball. LMAO
November 18th, 2008 at 9:28 am
TWolves Convert says:
haha, kiddie pool. thats good enough to bring back the “best lines of the day” segment.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Luke says:
How about we just give this one to all of the fat guys?
November 18th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Amar says:
raindance!
November 19th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Mark says:
A hearty laugh at this statement. I hate when random hairy guys feel it’s acceptable to be skins IN THE GYM (or anywhere else, for that matter). It’s pretty easy dropping 15 on me when I’m clearly three feet away avoiding you.