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It’s common knowledge that Robert Horry-Will Smith is up there with Stan Van Gundy-Ron Jeremy and Omar Epps-Mike Tomlin as the most uncanny athlete-celebrity resemblance of all-time.   But as it also turns out, Smith and Horry are hardly the only NBA player and famous rapper lookalikes.  Let’s take a look at a few notable examples from recent history.

Kenyon Martin

Method Man

I’ve also always thought that Marcus Camby looked like Method Man, even though he looks nothing like Kenyon Martin. I have no idea how that makes sense.

Ricky Davis

Andre 3000

Hey ya…look just like each other!

Corey Maggette

Xzibit

Pretty sure Mr. X to the Z’s crew represents the West Coast a little better than Maggette’s team…

Josh Smith

The Game

The bigger question is, who’s more overrated?

Devean George

Ice Cube

Fittingly, Ice Cube is as much a rapper nowadays as Devean George is an NBA player…

Larry Hughes

Juelz Santanta

Hughes is the only player on the list to actually appear in a rap video (Nelly’s “Dilemma”), which at least raises the possibility that he could star in a Juelz Santana video. Mind blown.

Jason Williams

Eminem

Mandatory white player comparison.

Michael Redd

Kanye West

Desperately fighting the urge not to make a played out “greatest comparison of all-time” joke…

Gary Payton

DMX

Um, at least the way DMX used to look like…

Bonzi Wells

Jay-Z

Only one of these world-renowned icons is the greatest player in Chinese basketball history.

Devin Brown

Usher

Not really hip-hop, but close enough (note that we’ll also accept an argument for a Leandro Barbosa resemblance). And for the record, Usher could give Matthew McConaughey a strong run for the title of most shirtless pictures on the first two pages of Google images search results.

Chris Childs

Nas

It ain’t hard to tell. Or maybe it is, but I always thought they looked alike as a kid. I’m just wondering who would be selling Chris Childs autographs…well, besides Chris Childs.

Honorable Mention:

*Chris Wilcox and Busta Rhymes: Obviously works better with the braids…

*Rodney Stuckey (on ‘roids) and 50 Cent

*Michael Finley and GZA

*Paul Pierce and Talib Kweli: On this list just to get by…

*Etan Thomas and John Forte (or Mekhi Phifer in 8 Mile, since he played a rapper and all…)