That's one way to handle it.
Summer League Player Owns Up to Embarrassing Close Up — 'Geez I'm Balding' originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
The NBA Summer League is in Las Vegas, with many players looking to impress teams. Among them are G League players hoping to crack NBA rosters, including former Marshall Thundering Herd shooter Jon Elmore, who is in Sin City to see action for the Stockton Kings.
Elmore isn't exactly turning heads with his play on the court, and at 29 years old, he's one of the oldest players in the Summer League. But he somehow grabbed attention for something completely unrelated to basketball.
During Monday's game against the Phoenix Suns, the broadcast camera zoomed in on Elmore's head, as the commentators talked about "hairstyle."
Elmore later acknowledged the attention with an amusing reaction.
“Geez I’m balding,” Elmore wrote on X as he reshared the Kings’ post.
“Can we move on. I had a new shampoo I thought was going to bring it back. It hasn’t worked. Can we stop talking about it 😂,” added Elmore, who was undrafted in the 2019 NBA draft.
Thankfully, Elmore has a sense of humor that fans on the internet appear to appreciate, as his post has garnered over 19,000 likes along with nearly two million views.
Even The Ringer’s Ryen Russillo had a hilarious way to empathize with Elmore.
“The shampoos don’t work. They should be prosecuted, not for a faulty product but for providing us false hope,” commented Russillo.
Against the Suns, Elmore scored just two points, both coming from the free-throw line, while adding a rebound and an assist in just 12 minutes of action off the bench.
In the 2024-25 G League season, he played for 34 games with the Stockton Kings and put up averages of 10.4 points, 4.8 assists and 3.6 rebounds.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 16, 2025, where it first appeared.
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