The only beardless picture of Rashard Lewis I could find. It's a part of him now.

"Creative financing." A fun term, one that's actually employed by financiers and accountants, yet one brought into the world of the NBA when it was used, once, in a pre-emptive justification for one of the least creatively financed transactions of a generation. Nevertheless, even if the man who gave reverence to the phrase isn't the role model for its usage, creative financing does exist in the NBA.

Or at least, it did.