why do some basketball players wear those plastic things on their faces?

Answer 1

a broken nose or cheek bone it it hard plastic so if they get hit there agian it wont make it any worse it basically a cast for your face form of pertection

Answer 2

A player may wear a plastic face guard to protect against any recovering facial fracture wether it be from cheek bone, nose of orbital socket. However, some players have worn the plastic beyond recovery as a preventive measure from reoccurance. In some cases, players have altered their game with a face mask and actually played well beyond it's need becuase they played better wearing the mask.

Answer 3

technically there not allowed to wear any hard plastic stuff even if its bandaged but im sure NBA makes exceptions because they want all their star players playing

Answer 4

All of the above and if the team is on a roll while they are wearing it why stop wearing it . Wear it until u lose.

Answer 5

Perhaps they broke their nose, thats what happened to Richard Hamilton, they wear it to protect themselves.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

To protect something on their face:
-Their nose cause they got it broke.
-Their eyes cause they don't want to lose them (you wouldn't want to either).

Answer 8

Afraid of being scratched or getting their eye's poked out .

Answer 9

protection, they mostly wear them to protect their nose if they recently broke it.

Answer 10

protection, like some have fragile noses, for others its their eyes, chinbones, ... you get the picture.