{"id":252089,"date":"2025-10-31T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252089\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:02:10","slug":"the-nbls-5-scariest-players-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252089\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBL&#8217;s 5 scariest players revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween is all about frightening monsters and scary costumes.<\/p>\n<p>During the NBL&#8217;s 47-year history, the competition has seen its fair share of scary and imposing players.<\/p>\n<p>So to stay with the theme of it being Halloween on Friday, 1990 NBL MVP Derek Rucker has revealed the five scariest players to ever step on an NBL court.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Uthoff<br \/>The Man Mountain. Never smiled. Used his body on both ends of the floor to seek revenge on anyone who crossed him. Broke three of my ribs in a game in Sydney in 1994. Appreciate you Dean.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6903d3a88d696430848b36b6_uthoff.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Aron Baynes<br \/>The ultimate \u2018white line fever\u2019 player. Ask the Cairns Taipans about Baynes. An imposing physical force at the highest levels of basketball (NBA and Boomers). Act a fool around Baynes and you\u2019ll find out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6903d3eb4fa6db99a2f33899_baynes.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Montrezl Harrell &#8211; The Anime Monsta. <br \/>A threatening and volatile offensive player who sought the smoke. Locks and bling everywhere, Trezz made you look the other way, simple as that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6903d48437ab68bd060cc330_harrel.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brad Dalton &#8211; The Old School Enforcer. <br \/>Shoulders as wide as a truck. When he walked into the stadium, he never said much, he was scheming on how to make your life miserable.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Drmic &#8211; The Antagonist. <br \/>Unique look and facials, cue psycho eyes. I\u2019m positive he celebrates his birthday on Halloween just because. If there\u2019s a fight in an NBL game, I somehow think Drmic is involved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6903d43a7b31702479ddb704_drmic.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rucker&#8217;s honourable mentions were Andrew Vlahov, Mika Vukona, Mark Dalton, Al Green and Ray Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s NBL action sees Illawarra host New Zealand at the WIN Entertainment Centre from 7.30pm AEDT, live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761872530_694_68d1e546bf14e7cc65f14d99_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halloween is all about frightening monsters and scary costumes. During the NBL&#8217;s 47-year history, the competition has seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-252089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}