{"id":296040,"date":"2025-11-20T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296040\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:07:08","slug":"why-does-this-nba-player-wear-his-headband-around-his-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296040\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does This NBA Player Wear His Headband Around His Neck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headband. Head. Band. It\u2019s right there in the name. These are bands to be worn on your head. But Jalen Suggs, the 24-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/shaq-penny-hardaway-orlando-magic-30-for-30-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a> point guard, can\u2019t be constrained by traditional logic like that. Suggs is an out-of-the-box thinker, you see. Rather than playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/about\/basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">basketball<\/a> with his headband on his head (rote, predictable, done thousands of times already), for the past few games he\u2019s been sporting it around his neck (awesome, out of nowhere, makes you wonder if it\u2019s an accident).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Bill Kenney Freddie Williams II La Parka La Parka Jonathan Cyprien Basketball and Person\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2246191010.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fernando Medina\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Suggs hasn\u2019t been doing the throat band for entire games, however, probably due to the fact that it would be really uncomfortable to do so. There\u2019s a reason no one in the NBA dribbles up the court in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/best-turtlenecks-for-men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">turtleneck<\/a>, after all. Instead, Suggs will start the first quarter with the band snugly around his Adam\u2019s apple, and then slide it up to his forehead after a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s funny. I don\u2019t even know [if] there\u2019s an explanation for it,\u201d Suggs told <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/therealBeede\/status\/1989418393066463323?s=20\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/therealBeede\/status\/1989418393066463323?s=20&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/therealBeede\/status\/1989418393066463323?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Beede, beat reporter for the Orlando Sentinel<\/a>. \u201cReally it originates as football drip, that\u2019s where it stems from. But I don\u2019t know, there really isn\u2019t much else to it. I wear it on my neck, and once I feel into the game, into the flow, I put it on my head and we rock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rock on! Whatever the reason, the oddball accessory seems to be working: Suggs, whose Magic got over .500 with a convincing win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/brandin-podziemski-travel-questionnaire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> on Tuesday, has been hooping. In each of his last six games\u2014four of which have been Orlando victories\u2014Suggs has registered double-digit points. Across those half dozen games, he\u2019s averaging 14.5 points, 5.0 assists, and 1.5 steals per game, while making exactly half of his shots. Unfortunately, even with the statistical revolution that\u2019s taken over the NBA, we don\u2019t have any metrics for how Suggs performs with the headband around his neck vs. on his dome. We do have video evidence of him scoring at least two points at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/msg-courtside-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Madison Square Garden<\/a> with this unusual garb, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Headband. Head. Band. It\u2019s right there in the name. These are bands to be worn on your head.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[12103,461,49,48,35212,12102,459,82,1778,343],"class_list":{"0":"post-296040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-affiliate-disabled","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-fashion-news","13":"tag-gq-sports","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","17":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}