Jack Sikma - NBA player professional afro.

Jack Sikma was a great rebounding power forward for the Seattle Supersonics and Milwaukee Bucks but more importantly he had a great Vanilla Afro. As you can see on the below right, however most likely because of taunting from other players or just plain societal differences Sikma decided against all good reason and logic and straightened into a spiked hair style in the late 80's. Most likely Jack felt fashion peer pressure I think. Maybe the pressure came from Frank Brickowski, Dennis Johnson (a brother with freckles), maybe from Larry Krystoviak, Brad Lohaus or even Terry Cummings I mean he was bald...who knows....But one thing is for certain, Jack made a big mistake trading in his afro for a radioactive spike hair crew cut. Like a fellow afro man Larry Bird, Jack Sikma chose the relatively unknown Illinois Wesleyan over bigger schools and crushed the competition in college. After his college days Jack ended up with the Seattle Sonics as the 8th overall pick and Sonics fans and the media thought he would be a bust calling him Simka or Sikman (lol....get it sick-man). Anyway, Jack's afro would prevail however and take him to places that many other afro men have not gone before except maybe LB himself), to NBA semi-greatness averaging almost a double double over his 14 year career, if he was on the Lakers or Knicks or some other better known team back in the 70's or 80's then we may be talking about Jack Sikma NBA Hall of Famer (I'd like to also think that there might have been afro-prejudice or afroracistness (no way I can even make that a word...). You can't really say afrodiscrimination I guess and if you try to shorten it to afronation, then you just umm say afro nation....

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Jack Sikma in a candid shot in his awesome vintage Seattle Sonics jersey. This is a younger Jack Sikma before he was with the Milwaukee Bucks

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Young Photo of Jack Sikma in a Sonics uniform looking mighty froish

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Here's a picture of Jack Sikma in a Bucks uniform and not only is he not in a cool looking Bucks jersey but he is not sporting his signature afro....very disappointing.

Attention...drill sergeant....sir yes sir

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Salivating at the chance at rebound against the Sixers

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An awesome starting lineup card with Jack Sikma on the front look at him bringing that ball back to fire....and also take a look at that awesome Bucks uniform with more shades of green than a Christmas tree.

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Jack Sikma stats and career info

Jack Wayne Sikma (now why the hell wasn't his nickname John Wayne Afro or gunslinger or something stupid like that)

Position: Center sometimes power forward
Height: 6 foot 11
Weight: 230 (come on no way...ugh I'm a fat ass)
Born: 11/14/1955, in Kankankee, IL, USA where the hell is that ?
High School: St. Anne, in St. Anne, IL
College: Illinois Wesleyan University (small school big afro)

Jack was drafted in the first round by the Seattle Supersonics in 1977

Jack Sikma NBA Regular Season Stats
Year	Age	Tm	Gms	Min	Pts	PPG	FGM	FGA	FGP	FTM	FTA	FTP	3PM	3PA	3PP	ORB	DRB	TRB	RPG	AST	APG	STL	BLK	TO	PF
1977-78	22	Seattle	82	2238	876	10.7	342	752	.455	192	247	.777	0	0	.000	196	482	678	8.3	134	1.6	68	40	186	300
1978-79	23	Seattle	82	2958	1281	15.6	476	1034	.460	329	404	.814	0	0	.000	232	781	1013	12.4	261	3.2	82	67	253	295
1979-80	24	Seattle	82	2793	1175	14.3	470	989	.475	235	292	.805	0	1	.000	198	710	908	11.1	279	3.4	68	77	202	232
1980-81	25	Seattle	82	2920	1530	18.7	595	1311	.454	340	413	.823	0	5	.000	184	668	852	10.4	248	3.0	78	93	201	282
1981-82	26	Seattle	82	3049	1611	19.6	581	1212	.479	447	523	.855	2	13	.154	223	815	1038	12.7	277	3.4	102	107	213	268
1982-83	27	Seattle	75	2564	1368	18.2	484	1043	.464	400	478	.837	0	8	.000	213	645	858	11.4	233	3.1	87	65	190	263
1983-84	28	Seattle	82	2993	1563	19.1	576	1155	.499	411	480	.856	0	2	.000	225	686	911	11.1	327	4.0	95	92	236	301
1984-85	29	Seattle	68	2402	1259	18.5	461	943	.489	335	393	.852	2	10	.200	164	559	723	10.6	285	4.2	83	91	160	239
1985-86	30	Seattle	80	2790	1371	17.1	508	1100	.462	355	411	.864	0	13	.000	146	602	748	9.4	301	3.8	92	73	214	293
1986-87	31	Mil	82	2536	1045	12.7	390	842	.463	265	313	.847	0	2	.000	208	614	822	10.0	203	2.5	88	90	160	328
1987-88	32	Mil	82	2923	1352	16.5	514	1058	.486	321	348	.922	3	14	.214	195	514	709	8.6	279	3.4	93	80	157	316
1988-89	33	Mil	80	2587	1068	13.4	360	835	.431	266	294	.905	82	216	.380	141	482	623	7.8	289	3.6	85	61	145	300
1989-90	34	Mil	71	2250	986	13.9	344	827	.416	230	260	.885	68	199	.342	109	383	492	6.9	229	3.2	76	48	139	244
1990-91	35	Mil	77	1940	802	10.4	295	691	.427	166	197	.843	46	135	.341	108	333	441	5.7	143	1.9	65	64	130	218
14 Season Totals	NBA	1107	36943	17287	15.6	6396	13792	.464	4292	5053	.849	203	618	.328	2542	8274	10816	9.8	3488	3.2	1162	1048	2586	3879

Extended Stats Explanations

Year Age G MPG PPG EFF AV VI PPFGA PPR RbRate

1977-78 22 82 27.3 10.7 13.96 9.3 5.2 1.018 -4.32 15.5

1978-79 23 82 36.1 15.6 22.17 13.2 8.5 1.057 -2.67 18.1

1979-80 24 82 34.1 14.3 21.09 12.8 8.1 1.051 -0.57 17.1

1980-81 25 82 35.6 18.7 22.09 13.2 8.4 1.025 -2.22 16.1

1981-82 26 82 37.2 19.6 27.01 15.3 9.5 1.117 -0.93 18.5

1982-83 27 75 34.2 18.2 23.79 13.0 8.6 1.092 -2.35 17.9

1983-84 28 82 36.5 19.1 25.66 14.8 9.5 1.144 -0.60 17.3

1984-85 29 68 35.3 18.5 25.60 12.8 9.4 1.128 1.25 17.6

1985-86 30 80 34.9 17.1 21.54 12.7 8.5 1.070 -0.48 15.8

1986-87 31 82 30.9 12.7 19.37 12.0 6.8 1.067 -0.97 18.1

1987-88 32 82 35.6 16.5 21.77 13.0 7.8 1.116 0.99 13.7

1988-89 33 80 32.3 13.4 18.48 11.3 7.2 1.107 1.84 14.0

1989-90 34 71 31.7 13.9 16.61 9.6 6.7 1.047 0.61 12.5

1990-91 35 77 25.2 10.4 12.44 8.2 4.8 1.031 -2.79 13.5

14 Season Totals 1107 33.4 15.6 20.83 89.1 7.8 1.079 -0.77 0.0

M - MVP
N - All NBA First Team
A - All Star

Playoff Stats

Year G Min Pts PPG FGM FGA FGP FTM FTA FTP 3PM 3PA 3PP ORB DRB TRB RPG AST APG STL BLK TO

1977-78 22 701 301 13.7 115 247 .466 71 91 .780 0 0 .000 0 0 178 8.1 27 1.2 18 11 0

1978-79 17 655 252 14.8 103 224 .460 46 61 .754 0 0 .000 0 0 199 11.7 43 2.5 16 24 0

1979-80 15 534 176 11.7 65 163 .399 46 54 .852 0 2 .000 30 96 126 8.4 55 3.7 17 5 35

1981-82 8 315 164 20.5 57 128 .445 50 58 .862 0 0 .000 21 76 97 12.1 24 3.0 9 8 16

1982-83 2 75 30 15.0 11 31 .355 8 12 .667 0 1 .000 6 20 26 13.0 11 5.5 2 2 5

1983-84 5 193 110 22.0 49 98 .500 12 14 .857 0 1 .000 11 40 51 10.2 5 1.0 3 7 9

1986-87 12 426 194 16.2 73 150 .487 48 49 .980 0 1 .000 33 97 130 10.8 23 1.9 15 10 18

1987-88 5 190 95 19.0 35 76 .461 25 30 .833 0 3 .000 24 38 62 12.4 13 2.6 2 4 15

1988-89 9 301 105 11.7 37 94 .394 23 28 .821 8 28 .286 9 41 50 5.6 30 3.3 8 4 21

1989-90 4 117 20 5.0 6 23 .261 6 8 .750 2 7 .286 0 14 14 3.5 7 1.8 2 4 12

1990-91 3 51 14 4.7 6 15 .400 1 2 .500 1 2 .500 3 9 12 4.0 6 2.0 5 1 3

Totals 102 3558 1461 14.3 557 1249 .446 336 407 .826 11 45 .244 137 431 945 9.3 244 2.4 97 80 134

NBA All Star Game Stats

Year Team Lg G Min Pts FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA OREB DREB TREB AST STL BLK TO PF

1978-79 1 18 8 4 5 0 0 - - - - 4 0 - - - -

1979-80 1 28 8 4 10 0 0 - - - - 8 4 - - - -

1980-81 1 21 6 2 5 2 2 - - - - 4 4 - - - -

1981-82 1 21 6 2 5 2 2 - - - - 4 4 - - - -

1982-83 1 17 8 4 6 0 0 - - - - 3 1 - - - -

1983-84 1 30 15 5 12 5 6 - - - - 12 1 - - - -

1984-85 1 12 0 0 2 0 0 - - - - 2 0 - - - -

Totals NBA 7 51 21 45 9 10 0 0 0 0 37 14 0 0 0 0