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Amir Johnson is in his fourth season with the Toronto Raptors, and the power forward is damn proud of it. If you weren’t aware of that before Friday morning, you are now.

Johnson tweeted a photo of his new haircut early Friday morning, which includes the Raptors’ logo — color and all. We have seen athletes shave their team’s logo into their standard haircut or their sweet high-top fade before big games, but Johnson took the detail to another level.

Should Johnson earn himself another ejection for throwing a tantrum like this one, NBA officials will now be frightened as they look at the back of his head while he’s walking off the court. That’s just one of many perks this haircut is going to provide.

H/T The Basketball Jones

A high school student in Texas was sent home from school on Thursday for his “inappropriate” haircut that featured a portrait of Texas A&M star quarterback Johnny Manziel, ESPN’s Bill Speros reports.

According to Speros, 17-year-old Christian Chavez of Kerrville, Tex., responded to a Facebook offer from “Rob the Original,” a San Antonio barber who is known for creating unique haircuts. Rob was offering to cut a portrait of Manziel into someone’s hair for free, so Chavez took him up on it. The teenager headed to the shop to have his hair done, and was sporting the style by the end of the day Wednesday.

Unfortunately for Chavez, officials at his high school weren’t as enthusiastic about the ‘do.

Chavez was sent home from school by the principal and told not to return until the Manziel portrait was removed from his head. He says he was told the haircut “was inappropriate for school policy.”

Chavez seems disappointed because he says he loves the haircut. Before transferring to Hill Country High School in Kerrville, he played JV football at Tivy High School, where Manziel played. He says his older brother played with Manziel.

He’s planning to keep it a few more days before getting it removed..

“Might as well keep it keep it tomorrow (Friday) and get it cut either Sunday or Monday. I thought I would be fine,” he said. “I was surprised. My mom came and got me. She didn’t like the fact they told me to go home.”

If this story sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve encountered this situation many times in the past. A San Antonio middle school student was sent home from school in May for his Matt Bonner haircut that paid tribute to the Spurs forward. In 2009, a middle school student in Houston was sent home from school for sporting a Houston Rockets logo in his head, similar to Ron Artest’s former hairstyle.

Below is a video of Rob the Original working on the Johnny Manziel haircut:

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Andrew Bynum’s health has prevented him from playing this season, but his hair has managed to keep him in headlines.

The Philadelphia 76ers center was spotted watching his team play on Wednesday while sporting the ‘do you see above. I really don’t even know how to describe the thing.

Earlier this season, Bynum was sporting the Don King look.

But this new look? How do you even describe it? Is he going with the Ike Turner cut? Is it an ode to The Beatles? Is it taken from Moe of the Three Stooges?

I think Bynum does this intentionally just to mess with peoples’ heads, kind of like the way he was so insistent on shooting threes with the Lakers. He just likes stirring it up.

Here are other looks at the ‘do:

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I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s the best baseball-themed mohawk of the season. Just like FOX Sports Arizona said, “it took 162 games, but we finally have a winner for hairdo of the season.”

We’re told the man sporting the mohawk is Josh Pugh of Aurora, Colo., and it looks like he’s made a habit of decorating his mohawk for various sporting events. You can see many more of his unique designs below:

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There seems to be a trend developing with former Cardinals defensive backs getting funky haircuts. First it was Giants safety Antrel Rolle getting a glow-in-the-dark hairdo, and now it’s Eagles cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie rocking a green stripe down his hair and on his goatee.

DRC says his new hairdo can be attributed to a pact made with teammate Nnamdi Asomugha.

“It goes back to OTAs,” Rodgers-Cromartie told CSN Philly. “Me and Nnamdi were growing our hair. We were like ‘let’s do something crazy.’ So he came in with a hi-top (fade). At first I thought it was a joke, but he was like ‘come on, D, you gotta do something.’ So I went with the green mohawk.”

DRC calls it a mohawk — and the dyed green stripe does create that illusion — but you really need the sides shaved for that to be the case, so his ‘do really doesn’t qualify. It certainly is interesting looking, though it probably won’t last long.

H/T The 700 Level

Team USA cruised to another easy victory in the Olympics on Sunday, this time a 98-71 thumping of France. Kevin Durant was the game’s leading scorer with 22 points, and it’s possible his new aerodynamic look contributed to his success. As you can see from the photo above that Durant posted on Instagram over the weekend, he has decided to go with the shaved head look in London.

Maybe it will just take a while to get used to, but I’m not a fan of this look for K.D. Kevin Love has spent the past couple of weeks posting embarrassing pictures of his teammates on Twitter like this one and these ones, but Durant took matters into his own hands with this shot.

Antrel Rolle showed up at Giants training camp with a unique hairstyle. The Giants safety’s sides are shaved and have highlight-colored designs on them, and they actually glow in the dark.

“No story behind [the haircut],” Rolle told reporters. “I just told my barber to give me something different, and this time we wanted to go with something that glows in the dark, so this is what you got.”

Rolle says the hair doesn’t impact his play on the field, but it is part of his superstition.

“I’m a little superstitious with some things and this is one of them,” he said.

Rolle pointed out that the Cardinals went to the Super Bowl when he also had a haircut that was flashy.

“A lot of the bald guys wish they could do it, but their time has passed,” he joked.

Here are a few photos of the haircut:

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