Why do some NBA players look fat no matter what, and why does this happen?

[BigShotBob]

I have a football background so you see players of all shapes and sizes generally depending on position. Of course basketball is similiar but I wonder why players like Luka and Draymond and Carmelo for instance always look fluffier than you would expect them to since they have decent conditioning. Harden as well goes into that category for me and I could go on. I've never understood it. Is it enjoying the buffet a little too much?

[AlternativeAcc.]

Everybody deposits fat differently. Some guys naturally just have fatter faces, and the guys you mentioned just naturally have higher body fat percentages. There's not much else to it.

Doesn't mean they're not well conditioned.

[Full Court]

Not everyone can be a slender, efficient, balling machine like Kevin Durant.

[FultzNationRISE]

Everyone’s body stores fat slightly differently. Some people store more in the face/neck, which gives more of a chubby aesthetic regardless of conditioning.

Speaking from experience.


Edit: Should have read the responses first.

Ill also add that skeletal frame plays a role as well.

[Baller789]

I found that chubbier-rounder looking guys are often stonger than the ripped dudes.

[Mask the Embiid]

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They are all ripped even Draymond. I’ve seen him shirtless before pause…well everyone Cept jokic and Luka…

[tpols]

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They are all ripped even Draymond. I’ve seen him shirtless before pause…well everyone Cept jokic and Luka…

Northern / Eastern European people have more fat stores and denser bone structures due to living in the cold a lot of the time. Its an evolutionary mechanism to preserve themselves. If you look at Africans they generally aren't heavy. Some regions have really tall people, but because its so hot there was never a need to have them be heavy as well. Think Manute Bol or Dikembe Mutumbo. So guys like Jokic and Luka are genetically predisposed to weight gain as a result of the environments their ancestors grew up in.

[Bronbron23]

I have a football background so you see players of all shapes and sizes generally depending on position. Of course basketball is similiar but I wonder why players like Luka and Draymond and Carmelo for instance always look fluffier than you would expect them to since they have decent conditioning. Harden as well goes into that category for me and I could go on. I've never understood it. Is it enjoying the buffet a little too much?

Bruh are you serious with this?

[BigShotBob]

Bruh are you serious with this?

Half serious