Magic Begin Growing Playoff Beards

The Orlando Magic will grow beards until the playoff ends.

"We talked about doing something as a team," center Dwight Howard said.

"We thought about the bald heads, but some of us — myself — don't look right with a bald head. Then we thought about letting our hair grow out; then [we realized] we've got a lot of guys who are going bald, so [it would] look funny with just patches in their head.

"So the beard is the only way to go. It'll be tough for me and the young guys to really get it going, but we're all in this together."

"It's one of those team things," Quentin Richardson said. "Togetherness. It's something fun at the same time. It's going to definitely look funny, I know."