Hazing is nothing new when it comes to professional sports. More often than not you’ll see a rookie forced to wear a backpack fit for a six-year-old girl, normally pink in color and covered in Hello Kitty or unicorns.
But the Los Angeles Lakers have taken rookie hazing to a new extreme, which includes bringing baby dolls to games. Yes, full on, life-sized dolls.
It’s not known if Kobe Bryant had any role in such (he does like to troll his rookies), the Lakers as a unit decided rookies like Jordan Clarkson and Tarik Black must take care of the fake children as if they were in a 6th grade pre-parenting class.
They’ve even went as far as to name the babies, like Clarkson’s doll “Ri-Ri”, an obviously play on pop singer Rihanna.
I’ve seen some pretty epic rookie hazing which has included covering brand new luxury vehicles in buttery popcorn with 110 temperatures outside or even hosing down a ride in shaving cream, stripping the paint. But carrying around a baby for the rest of the season?
I guess if there is a saving grace, it’s not one of those “living” dolls which cry and need their diaper changed, kind of like Nick Young.
H/T Lakers Nation
