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Looking At NBA Figures & Their Pro Wrestling Counterparts

Richard Gray April 27, 2012 Other News 22 Comments

With the NBA Playoffs starting tomorrow, The Masked Man over on Grantland has a new article online looking at NBA figures and their pro wrestling counterparts. Below is look at who the piece compares:

LeBron James Is John Cena
Dwyane Wade Is CM Punk
Dwight Howard Is Mark Henry
Carmelo Anthony Is Triple H
Kobe Bryant Is “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair
The Celtics Are The nWo
Tim Duncan Is The Undertaker
Steve Nash Is Bret Hart
Dirk Nowitzki Is The Miz
Deron Williams Is Kurt Angle
Jeremy Lin Is Daniel Bryan
Metta World Peace Is “Macho Man” Randy Savage
Blake Griffin Is Dolph Ziggler
Jason Kidd Is Shawn Michaels
Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook Are The Rockers
Michael Jordan Is The Rock
Shaquille O’Neal Is Andre the Giant
Andrew Bynum Is Brock Lesnar
JaVale McGee Is The Big Show
Derrick Rose Is Chris Jericho
Kevin Love Is Randy Orton
Magic Johnson Is “Stone Cold” Steve Austin
Greg Oden Is Edge
Anthony Davis Is Dean Ambrose
Marv Albert Is Jim Ross
Spike Lee Is “The Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart
Worldwide Wes Is Eric Bischoff

You can read the fun piece at this link.

Thanks to Wrestling News World reader Shawn Daniels for sending this in.

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Josh

A lot of these make little sense, in my opinion, but Worldwide Wes as Eric Bischoff is pretty funny.
ArlenR

Pointless and not very accurate, in my opinion.
- Philg
  
  Accurate for a few.. Like Howard/Henry shaq/Andre Jordan/rock
DC

This isn’t that good!!!!!!! At all….I’ll give a few to them but just a few
Steve l

Some of this is pretty funny. I like the tough old Celtics being the nwo
Steve l

Steve Nash as Brett Hart amd Lyn as Bryam are my favorites I dont get Lurt as Deron or Miz as Dirk though
- christopher525
  
  What the hell is wrong with your keyboard dude?
  - kevin
    
    Lol
Jim

Would have been better if there was explanations as to why you made those picks! haha
Bob

It makes perfect sense if you guys would read the descriptions….
Da KiDD

If anyone wants to understand the Big Show Javale McGee one, just type in "javale McGee shaqtin a fool" in youtube, lmao. Shaq and the TNT crew had a field day with that goof this season! And after those goofy highlights of Big Show that Cody showed, you'd see the similarities hahaha
ChromeyDaniels

Guy, everything would make sense to all of you in the picks if you read the article.
land grabber

i think edge should be brandon roy force to be retired beacuse of their previous injuries
Michael

Metta World Peace as MACHO MAN? Really? I dont see it. He is more like Brian Pillman, a loose cannon.
- The Choice
  
  Elbows, man. Elbows.
  - Mr.Love
    
    He loves throwing them elbows lol
Nathan

Lol
Jim

Q. What do any of these have to do with the other? A. Nothing at all.
Batch-pz101

Metta world peace throws a mean elbow like macho now you get it
Double reversing…

Dennis Rodman is Adrian Adonis! Lock it in!
- “The Nightmare”
  
  Damn! Kinda beat me to it, but I was gonna say and if he was still playing…”Dennis Rodman would be….Dennis Rodman. Because he actually did used to wrestle some even after his cameo’s on several WCW pay-per-views”.
JakShowtime

I can see Durant eventually superkicking Westbrook…