Here are the nerdiest and geekiest players the NBA has to offer.
Jocks are often viewed as gym rats who bullshit and party in their spare time.
But believe it or not, this is just a stereotype because many athletes are actually pretty geeky.
Some love to build Legos, some are hardcore science nerds and some are borderline addicted to video games.
The Nerdiest Players
So, here are the 12 nerdiest/geekiest NBA players:
- Tim Duncan (PC Games, specifically StarCraft)
- Jaylen Brown (Stupid intelligent and a NASA intern and MIT fellow)
- Myles Turner (Master of Lego)
- Javale McGee (Loves gadgets)
- Derreck Lively II (also into Lego)
- Jeremy Lin (Harvard grad and loves League of Legends)
- Victor Wembanyama (Sci-fi nerd)
- Chris Bosh (loves tech, engineering and coding)
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar (is a Holmesian [Sherlock Holmes nerd] and writer)
- Brook and Robin Lopez (Comic book nerds)
- Jarrett Allen (Really into Pokémon)
Final Thoughts
I wish I had known this when I was younger because I always felt like an outsider.
In junior high, I was on my school’s basketball team but never felt I fit in with my teammates.
After games and practices, all I wanted to do was go home and play Tony Hawk on my PlayStation or watch WWE, whereas they wanted to go to parties or the mall with girls.
I liked to talk about dorky things and they liked to talk about working out, parties, girls and clothing.
(Not saying I didn’t like the things they were interested in, but I also liked these other “uncool” things as well.)
If this wisdom had been available to my younger self, I wouldn’t have felt out of place. I would’ve been more secure with my personality.
Hopefully, this gets out to the little kid who feels he/she doesn’t belong and he/she realizes that it’s alright to be different.