Blazers celebrity look-alikes

And now for something completely different: Which celebrities (or famous people from history) look like one of our Blazers?

This was inspired by Ben's post on the pre-draft workout featuring Omri Casspi, with Section323 remarking that he looks "kinda hot" and tominhawaii remarking that he looks like some "member of a band" but couldn't come up with the name. I tried to find a software that can search for similarities in photos and came up with this result (he looks 68% like MJ by the way, draft him!). So I also wanted to do it for the Blazers, and the first results were really funny so I kept going.

This is not meant to be serious. For one, I used a free service called MyHeritage, and they call this feature "Celebrities & Fun" themselves. From the hits in the database, I also made a slight selection (usually eliminating 4 matches) to make it more accurate - or more funny. And I suppose it is recognizing facial expressions at least as much as real facial features. That's why they recommend using several pictures to see which people come up multiple times, and I did too at least for some where I wasn't completely happy with the first result. So the "likeness" is fairly random, since you can also say if you want to include females or males and the scanning mechanism e.g. doesn't care for age or skin color. I still found some results fitting and almost everyone has someone funny included, so I hope you like it too.

(I also tried Dave and Ben, but apparently no celebrity looks like a smiling kitten.)

LaMarcus Aldridge

The hat gives it away man, you look totally like Michael Moore. With a little bit of Magic and Nakata. Very Coolio.

Nicolas Batum

This is the proof: Nic looks like a girl. At least on draft day. Especially like his countrywoman Audrey, highest similarity score. And this is not faked, I only got female matches for that photo (Zac Hanson is a girl, right?). It can't be the long hair. Apparently Nic immediately looked manlier after he signed his contract. Bruce Lee, I'll take that.

Jerryd Bayless

Another one where it highly depends on the photo which celebrities come up. He can give you the slightly Asian look as in picture one. But he can also sport a somewhat sad and determined/serious look. And he has the "I scream because I just dunked on you" look that somehow makes him look like a top soccer player - or that guy from Mission Impossible. Or Lenin. (The classic "Bayless face" picture used by Ben didn't work, it needs to be one where the person looks fairly straight ahead.)

Steve Blake

Gone with the Wind? Anger Management? Tarzan? Evil girl from Buffy? Swing When You're Winning? Steve can give you all of that.

Rudy Fernandez

High similarity to good-looking people with slightly unkempt looks and curls. And Rowan Atkinson. Oded Fehr and Nicholas Brendon subjectively seem to be the best hits. But Rudy also brings sexiness and sophistication.

Channing Frye

Channing = Obama. Hands down.

Greg Oden

Wanna know why Paul Allen wanted Oden and not Durant? Here is the solution: Because he saw Greg in himself. Uncanny similarity. Also Greg clearly sports the look of an athlete (Bailey, Kluivert, Lewis, Magic, Barrichello). Whatever Milosevic is doing in there I don't know, maybe it's the nose.

Travis Outlaw

Another candidate where the results varied wildly, also from picture to picture. Cool relaxed Travis with Pacino and Denzel. I like the "sophisticated Travis" look with glasses. And he also got the wild and weird variety going (Ant, Sutherland, Poe, Goldwyn, Whitaker). Is that when Supatrout emerges, no fear, no regrets?

Joel Przybilla

Now here is where I would have expected mean English soccer players. Uh uh.

Shavlik Randolph

Dirk and Shaq. Duh, of course! And Nate never saw it in Shav. Bring him back!

Sergio Rodriguez

I really don't know what to make of this. A tennis player known for his wild game and smashing serves, a highly creative French soccer player, one of the founding fathers of communism, and two actors. Oh well.

Brandon Roy

Brandon looks like Sergio looks like Thierry Henry. At least partly. Another pretty wild combination here, aparently Roy transcends categorization. Funny guys and tough guys (extreme mountaineer Messner, that guy from Gladiator, that guy from Pulp Fiction) are also part of his repertoire.

Martell Webster

Martell is also hard to match, he looks very different from photo to photo and not that many recent ones around. I also had one with a beard making him look a bit like LeBron, but that unfortunately couldn't get recognized. Patrick Viera is a tough as nails former French national team player in soccer. Pretty fitting. Don't know how happy Martell's wife is that he looks a bit like Alicia and Beyonce and Jada Pinkett Smith.

Bonus 1: Kevin Pritchard

Terence Stamp. Totally.

Bonus 2: Nate McMillan

Nice combo here. Is Nate also as funny as his look-alikes? Will he become the Danny Glover of the Blazers once he grows older?

For the memories: Ha Seung-Jin

Pretty pretty

Which similarities did you like, or found especially weird?