The Warriors made a 7-foot-7 Manute Bol bobblehead doll (Ball Don’t Lie)
As we've seen time and time again over the years, making a bobblehead doll to honor an athlete (or commissioner , or cable talk show host , or whomever) can be a tricky business. Sometimes the finished product more closely resembles someone else . Sometimes very important details are missing. Despite all the hard work that goes into recreating the honoree's likeness, it can be difficult to accurately and fully encapsulate the scope of an individual's influence and accomplishments in a small, inherently caricature-esque collectible statue. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] Perhaps that's why, when the Golden State Warriors decided to honor the late, great and wonderfully unique Manute Bol, they chose to build their bobblehead to full life-size scale: You can do what @andrewbogut is doing here if you come to Tuesday's #ManuteBobblehead game » http://t.co/nwI1rEDUwB pic.twitter.com/f5yhG0d94X — Golden St. Warriors (@warriors) January 26, 2015 Yep, that's Warriors center Andrew Bogut — all 7 feet of him — standing next to a no-kidding 7-foot-7-inch functional bobblehead doll of the South Sudanese shot-swatter. We've...
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