7 Most Bizarre NBA Player Facebook Pages

Social media has become a great way for athletes and entertainers to keep in touch with fans, but at some point a Facebook page or a Twitter account ceases to be an avenue of communication and starts being an absurd, bizarre piece of the internet.

Some athletes take to Twitter, and it's a great way to introduce a Jack Kerouacian stream of consciousness straight from the mind of a baller and to your smartphone. However, with the lack of character limits and easier ability to share a picture and have fans comment on it and send it around, Facebook can get a bit crazy at times.

Beyond that, there are many athlete pages that are unverified, and tons of them that are obviously run by a publicist's secretary.

Still, there are some gems out there, and I've gone out to find exactly what we've got in terms of excellent Facebook pages from our favorite NBA stars, and even a few from the past.

Greg Oden

There are very few things that Greg Oden has done throughout his career that have been uplifting, but his Facebook page just may be the most depressing thing on the internet.

The only things he's posted for months have been related to his injury, his release from the Trail Blazers and his overall raw deal. You've got to scroll for a few moments to find anything that's not going to get you down, and even then it's a bunch of generic posts and random photos.

Of course, the entire thing is made ridiculous by his cover photo, which is of course a picture of him looking enormous on a basketball court while wearing the biggest frown possible. 

This is comedy in it's purest form, folks.

Pau Gasol

Props to anyone who has to go to another country and learn a new language, which Pau Gasol has done at this point, but when he posts on his Facebook page he inevitably posts things that are too wordy and unintentionally comedic.

Some gems include, "Amazing win against Dallas overtime included! Glad for having contributed with decisive shots. Great team effort again! Go LA Lakers!"

It's very endearing.

Shaquille O'Neal

Sure, Shaq isn't a part of the NBA anymore, but that doesn't mean his Facebook page is any less hilarious.

Shaq's biggest reason for having a Facebook page has been to post whatever pictures he sees that are even moderately humorous, sometimes posting funny little one-liners to go along with them.

Of his best picture posts, there is a picture of a restaurant named Dirty Dicks with the caption, "Would you eat here?" There's also a picture of a happy elephant that can't go overlooked, and a shot of a guy dressed up like Mario pushing a grocery cart with the greatest caption I've read in years, "Mario Kart - he's real!!!!" 

Dwight Howard

I understand that social media can be a great way to get the word out on a product or two that you happen to be promoting, but at the end of the day there's a fine line between telling your fans to check out a product to being a shill for whomever may be throwing a money bucket at you.

Dwight Howard crossed that line and then another and another to the point where he's no more than a Facebook Billy Mays when it comes to his posts.

Every single post, save for one or two, over the past few months have been promoting his app, parties he's hosting, shoes he has reviewed or (on a lighter note) kits you can buy to prevent your child from being abducted, and even those are ingrained with the message, "Hey, look at me! I'm Dwight Howard!" That kit includes a fingerprinting kit that you can use to identify your children, only when you fingerprint your child a "D12" appears in the middle of the fingerprint, "as a part of his commitment to protecting children."

Riiiiiight.

Kobe Bryant

There are quite a few things that Kobe Bryant does to really distance himself from fans; he's a very secluded person and he doesn't share much, but he does have his Facebook page.

However, Kobe Bryant's Facebook page does the imaginable: It makes him seem even more like a closed-off person. Most posts from Kobe (or whoever it may be posting for Kobe) just seem to be reminding the rest of the world that he is, indeed, Kobe Bryant.

Most recently he signed a piece of his old high school court and put it on eBay. The proceeds are going to his charity, but at the end of the day it seems like he's putting his name on something related to himself and telling people to buy it. It's not as overt as Dwight Howard's outright advertisements, but it is a lot of Kobe telling you that he is Kobe.

Steve Nash

Sometimes when a player is being a real person it turns into the weirdest thing possible.

Steve Nash's Facebook page does a great job of showing off his personality while still showing off all of the athlete-ish things that allows him to tread a fine line between awesome guy and NBA point guard.

Nash frequently posts pictures of his travels, including shots of his teammates doing things on their trips to different cities, and a rather humorous picture of him and Ronny Turiaf.

His realness is refreshing, but it's also pretty bizarre for an NBA player.

Yao Ming

I'm quite positive that Yao Ming can't post a picture of himself involving other people that isn't unintentionally hilarious. He's just too tall.

Yao's Facebook page is full of pictures of him doing things like going to school, taking part in a Chinese New Year celebration or accepting an award with two giant, stern-looking photos of himself looking over both of his shoulders. There are no words for how unintentionally funny some of these photos are.

The fact that he's no longer in the NBA can't supersede the fact that his Facebook page is so damn hilarious.