Watch: Steven Adams' long hair a result of trimming his budget

Steven Adams started growing out his locks not for aesthetic reasons, but because he was too cheap to pay for haircuts regularly.

"Honestly, it was like a budget thing," the Oklahoma City Thunder center told a "The Crowd Goes Wild," a New Zealand sports program. "It was like 60 bucks to get haircuts and it bummed me out. Straight up, I was like, 'What the hell?' And that was every month. So I was like, that is so much money. So then I just stopped getting haircuts and stuff and it saved me a bunch of money. And now this is a thing. So I was like, cool."

Adams also provided an update on his groin (everything's a-OK down there) and shared how proud he is of his sister Valerie, who won a silver medal in women's shot put at this year's Olympics.