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The man in the middle

There are not many seven footers with hair that is a cross between Doc Brown from the Back to the Future movies and Sideshow Bob of the Simpsons, who has gone MMA with NBA mascots and who has been linked romantically to a Kardashian, and yet who is said to be overlooked.

Well, there’s actually one: Robin Lopez, the Bulls center who does his best perhaps among all the players in the NBA these days to hide in plain sight.

“Things happen in the NBA,” Lopez says with a shrug about the Bulls being his fifth team in nine NBA seasons.