NewsOK: “Before a late November home game against Brooklyn, Steven Adams went to Enes Kanter with a mutual suggestion: Shave the beard, keep the mustache.”

They kept the mo’s well beyond that one month and they soon came to represent their budding comradeship. Adams and Kanter, though, they went all in. Mitch McGary joined in too… although his ‘stache didn’t last. The Thunder matched it.Ĭome that next season, Adams and Kanter decided to let the upper lips grow for Movember. He averaged 18.7 points per game over the rest of that season and the Portland Trail Blazers gave him a large offer sheet as a restricted free agent. It was a grooming choice that he continued to flirt with.Įnes Kanter was traded to the Thunder in February 2015 as part of a three-team deal. His second season in the NBA, he grew a moustache just for Media Day – that way his promo pics would flash some Tom Selleck/Burt Reynolds imagery all year. The Stache Brothers originated through Steven Adams’ willingness to be a funny bugger. The real reason this trade brings a tear to the eye is the enforced demise of the brotherhood known as ‘The Stache Bros’. In fact he lives in New York during the offseason so a trade to the Knicks, where he’ll get plenty more opportunities to play as well, is a rather large positive for his career.īut that’s not why this is so tragic. Ask them again and they’ll tell you that Enes Kanter wasn’t good enough to command the money he was getting on a team expecting to win playoff series. Ask any Thunder fan, they’ll tell you that Carmelo Anthony was well worth trading for at the price they got him at. Thus it has come to pass that Enes Kanter is no longer a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Even less if you’re a defensive liability on an $18m contract. The NBA has very little room for sentiment. Perhaps you won’t even get one before they’re suited up against you dropping three pointers for the win. Perhaps, like with Kobe Bryant or Tim Duncan, you’ll get twenty good years out of them. As a fan you learn to accept this quickly with injuries and trades and retirements and all that ensuring that even the greatest, most loyal players will eventually, one day, move on.

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