Why does rajon rondo wear headband upside down

Because there was something missing on Rajon Rondo's notes head Tuesday night as he took to the court against the Heat. A headband. Not even a right-side-up version.

How can you tell it's an upside-down headband? Well, about a decade ago, when headbands were starting to come back into vogue after a year or so absence, the NBA decided to cash in, and replace all the team-issued headbands they provided free of charge to their players, with a version that featured the famous NBA logo on top of the team colors. And you had to wear the logo'd version, for fear of a fine.

Rasheed Wallace notes took it to the man by turning his headband inside-out, but the league came down on that, so Rasheed stopped. We didn't really hear a peep about the logo'd headbands for a few years after that, until , when it became obvious that quite a few players were following Rondo's example and turning the logo upside down.

We even posted about it, in BDL's early days. Most of the players listed haven't really played much in the years since that post, while one guy J. Smith notes has dumped the headband altogether. But Rondo carried on, upside down all the way, with Jerry West facing downward on national TV dozens of times a year as the C's made it to the finals two out of the last three years.

But not anymore. Because he's been asked not to do it, by the league. And he's not wearing a headband anymore. He's playing against the Cavaliers as I write this, and he's still not wearing a headband. Other popular stories on Yahoo! Aaron Rodgers returned to the Packers on Saturday, a sign he'll start in Week Lewis Hamilton's championship hopes were dealt a major setback after he was excluded from qualifying and thrown to the back of the grid for today's sprint race at the Brazilian GP.

Going down the complete opposite pathway, Corey Brewer likes to keep his headband low and tight. Of course, an overly sweaty brow on any given night could quickly turn it from a headband into a blindfold and he could end up doing his best Cedric Ceballos impersonation.

If Corey Brewer wore his headband any lower, it'd be a blindfold. Or a collar. While Brewer is constantly on the verge of seeing no evil, Derek Fisher spent the majority of his career hearing no evil.

Fisher might be the only guy in the history of the league to completely cover his ears with his goofy-looking headband. We get more controversial as we go down the line, starting and ending with the scandalous Rajon Rondo. He went so far as to violate the sanctity of headband-dom, wearing it with the NBA logo upside-down. Of course, David Stern cracked down on the fun Rondo was having, deeming his upside-down headband to be illegal.

Basketball reasons. As far as ugly headband designs go, the "Stars-and-Stripes" beauties have to take the cake. Not only were they maddeningly distracting, but they also just clashed with most team's uniforms.

Take one mullet-wearing, blue-collar looking dude. Maybe a little way to stick it to the man, since they have to wear NBA-issued headbands. Maybe just to be different. But once it becomes a superstitious thing with players they will not stop it. Rondo may go sans headband instead. So the NBA has cracked down on this horrendous violation.

That and all those times players punched the air, which was a growing issue so we needed to give them technicals.