Actually, what he promised was a “mew-lay”, a fancy mullet, so to speak. That one needed some explaining to the OKC media but they got there in the end. To be fair, the mo’ almost returned in November 2014 but, like…

“For Movember, I was actually trying, I shaved the day before November. And it started growing out a lot, and I tried to shape it up myself, and I ruined it. It looked absolute garbage, so then I had to shave it all off. I had to. It was pretty tragic.” – Steven Adams, speaking to Complex

Still, it was there for a brief amount of time in its nascent flowering.