Serious Question: Why Can’t Hedo Turkoglu Keep His Hands Out Of His Mouth?

And now for today’s least sanitary story.

The folks at The Starters pointed this out yesterday, and now I can’t stop watching the video and trying to figure out why the hell it’s happening. What you’re about to witness is Turkish Los Angeles Clippers player Hedo Turkoglu licking his hands almost twenty times in thirty seconds. He comes out onto the court and starts licking his hands and just DOESN’T STOP. OM NOM NOM NOM.

I don’t know if the snozzberries taste like snozzberries or what, but there’s no reasonable explanation for why a guy needs that much saliva on his hands. More like Hedo Hockalugo, am I right?

Here it is from a different angle, at the :50 mark …