Lebron James also brought a jet black carbon-fibre mask into play to protect a broken nose, opting for the lighter material. Breaking his nose a week earlier against the Thunder, he wore the mask to protect it after missing the previous game against the Bulls. The Knicks would lose with James scoring 31, grabbing four rebounds and four assists no doubt thanks to his new superhero mask.
The black mask looked absolutely mint with the throwback Heat jerseys. Ultimately it would be the last game in which the black mask would make an appearance. It would cost the Lakers as they went on to lose in overtime against the Pistons. Irving would finish with what was a career-high 41 points, shooting of from the field.
Although not the return of the black mask so to speak, Joel Embiid would wear a high-tech mask following an orbital facture during the NBA season. The sophisticated dynamic mask was made of both carbon and polycarbonate and was made complete with a set of goggles.
Embiid missed close to a month of basketball due to a broken left eye socket before returning for the NBA playoffs. Before the days of contact lenses and corrective eye surgery, players needed to wear prescription goggles to help them see.
Tomlinson has been one of the best running backs in NFL history and he did with his face shielded from the world. Rey Mysterio is the true definition of an underdog and true definition of the masked athlete.
Mysterio has been one of the most successful wrestlers in the WWE history. Always considered the underdog, Mysterio found a way to consistently win matches and become a popular figure in wrestling history. His mask is not used for protection, rather to respresent his Mexican wrestling heritage. Mysterio comes from a elite group of Luchadores, a professional Mexican wrestler group, and has continued the tradition throughout his entire career.
Mysterio has refused to let anyone take his mask off because it will destroy his heritage. Whether you love him or you hate him, Rey Mysterio has made the mask, and his Mexican heritage, a big part of professional wrestling. LeBron James had to wear a mask because of a foul to the face from Dikembe Mutombo during the season. Scoring around 25 points a game, going to and winning in his first All-Star appearance, 'Bron did not stop shining while wearing a mask.
Although LeBron temporarily wore the mask while playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers in , it is still right to mention him with the best athletes to ever wear a mask. Through hell, fire, and brimstone, Kane has donned a mask that has struck fear in the eyes of his opposition. Kane has worn different styles of masks, but the results have always been the same—triumph.
Through the early part of the —04 season, Hamilton broke his nose twice he also broke it in and was advised to wear a face mask to prevent needing significant nasal reconstructive surgery. The clear plastic face mask became his trademark and he would wear it for the rest of his playing career. Assistant coaches and players are still required to wear masks in the bench area. Training masks allow athletes to strengthen their respiratory muscle fitness without having to be confined to stationary devices or special facilities.
NBA players use masks to protect their faces while recovering from injuries such as lost teeth, broken noses, fractured orbital bones, fractured cheek boards, broken jawbones and a few more. The broken nose is the most common of them all.
Yes you can play basketball with glasses. There are no rules stopping an individual wearing glasses when playing basketball however, from a practicality perspective it would be easier to wear basketball goggles rather than glasses. Basketball players will wear masks to cover cuts and scrapes to their faces to prevent infection or further injuries. Later that year, Kyrie Irving would evolve himself into superhero status, wearing a black mask to protect a broken jaw.
Lebron James also brought a jet black carbon-fibre mask into play to protect a broken nose, opting for the lighter material. He sadly only wore this for one half before claiming discomfort, but it was too late, the legend of the black mask had already begun. Later that year, Kyrie Irving broke out the black mask after suffering a broken bone in his jaw. Creating his own chapter of the book, he wore the mask for just one game, dropping 41 points in Madison Square Garden with 17 of them coming in the fourth quarter.
But if an NBA player was ever truly a superhero, it was LeBron James the very moment he put on the black mask for himself.
That night in February, he wore the black mask better than anyone who had ever come before him. The all-black Heat uniform. The intro lighting in the background. LeBron just generally being better than all other humans around him.
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