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[NBA] Rookie photo shoot, Aaron Brooks front & center

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by LAYGO, Jul 30, 2007.

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  1. LAYGO

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    #1 LAYGO, Jul 30, 2007
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    Check him out, showing his balls off:

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    #2 LAYGO, Jul 30, 2007
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    AB looks kinda lost out there.
     
    #3 nycundaground, Jul 30, 2007
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    LOL he looks like a little kid out there.... And his Jersey looks like it's made for a 7' footer bwhahah :D
     
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    he looks like Greg Oden's grand kid
     
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  6. LAYGO

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    Goofy looking mug:
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    Last pic & he's got a Mario tattoo! Lots of these dudes have freaking basketball tattoos too:
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    #6 LAYGO, Jul 30, 2007
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    Edit: awww I was too slow with the Carl Landry picture! :)
     
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    Dude, the shortest always go in the front. :D
     
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    LOL! Landry doesn't even get a number.
     
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    How cute! Durant sent his 8th grade class picture in.
     
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    These portraits are pretty bad; I don't know who they got to do the photography
     
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    sure he does picture #45 out of 46

    least I didn't have to look through ALL the pics to see if he was in there :rolleyes:
     
    #12 okierock, Jul 30, 2007
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    lol, durant looks like he is in middle school, and AB looks like he belongs in elementary school with that group pic! hahaha
     
    #13 aznhowie20, Jul 30, 2007
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    Every player takes shots with one jersey with a number and one without. It's used for things like video games and commercials. When I went to media day last year, they had a specific area for shots with no number jerseys. Every player went through there and got a shot taken.
     
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    Scola is missing.
     
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    Well, as someone who went to three NBA Rookie Shoots for Topps, I can tell you that getting players to pose how you want to is like pulling teeth. The event is held outside of NYC (at the Knicks training facility in Westchester), starting early in the morning, and most of the players there are usually hungover (or worse...) after spending the night partying in Manhattan. Also, keep in mind that many of these portrait photos are cropped tightly for headshots on trading cards (and touched up to look better), thus the background means nothing. As for the uniforms? The NBA supplies them for the card companies, but they don't really care about sizes or numbers, thus some players look ridiculous in them (trust me, the same thing happens at the NFL Rookie Shoot).

    Not sure why they chose the pics they did, since, on average, an absurdly large number of photos are taken during the event. (As one of the former editors of the photography, you have no idea how much initial digital storage space is required to house all the photos.) Surely, out of the thousands of photos taken, they could've found some better ones.
     
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    The picture of Landry is horrible.
     
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    Durant in 3 yrs...
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    Hahah well done! Add 30 more years and he'll almost be a par with Grampa Oden.
     
    #19 ChalupaSupreme, Jul 30, 2007
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    You forgot to add the muscles.
     
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