what? seriously. what?

[hotfoot]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2194537

this is retarded.

i know it's sports and should be posted there, but c'mon. i worked applebee's back in the day and this is just as bad.

[007]

I read this in the paper yesterday. I agree with Hot's assessment of What?

[withoutcanseco]

maybe it will help the bball players not accidentally mug somebody on the way to the game. clothes help with that, right?

[larryhead]

Eh... I'm pretty indifferent. Boohoo... poor basketball millionares can't wear their medallions and sunglasses indoors. Suck it up bitches. These players are supposed to be paid professionals, they should act like it. Granted these are more conservative times, but seriously, I think it comes down showing a certain respect for the game, the other players and the fans by not dressing like a thug. This will be a good thing for the NBA. :twocents:

[larryhead]

"I understand they're making it out to make us look better to corporate and big business. But we don't really sell to big business," Suns guard Raja Bell said. "We sell to kids and people who are into the NBA hip-hop world. They may be marketing to the wrong people with this."




The NBA hip-hop world?


lol. ok. idiot.

[Diamond Vision]

i don't think it's so terrible.

Raja Bell is right... a lot of the people who care what they're up to are kids. They are role models and if they look and behave like thugs, the kids will behave likewise. I'm not suggesting we should try to eliminate "hip-hop culture" but there are times to behave professionally and times to do what you want. So, especially if you have a multi-million dollar contract, you should wear what the man paying you wants to wear.

After all, I get shit about tucking my shirt in and wearing "neutral colored" scoks at work... why shouldn't they?

[hotfoot]

After all, I get shit about tucking my shirt in and wearing "neutral colored" scoks at work... why shouldn't they?

You shouldn't, and neither should they.

[bubz_bluez]

steven jackson said the NBA is attacking the black men in the NBA banning chains. he thinks this is a racial slam on what "THEY" stand for.

talk about a guy that doesnt know what hes talkin about

bubz

[bubz_bluez]

suck it up is right !! they do need to look like presentable

after last years pistons / pacers thugish capade the league needs to do something

bubz

[matty]

These guys make more in a week than I will make in my whole life.

Buy an Armani suit, get a fat diamond tie tack and shut the fuck up.

[hotfoot]

Why do they need to look presentable? They play basketball.

[bubz_bluez]

thats exsactly right i mean whats the big fuckin deal
bubz

[hotfoot]

just 'cause they've got some money doesn't mean a dress code is cool.

[withoutcanseco]

honkola, stop being such a communist.

[matty]

Dress codes ARE necessary very frequently, because people are idiots and can't be trusted to judge for themselves what is appropriate to wear at work and what is not.

I wish we didn't need dress codes. I wish I could wear whatever the hell I wanted to at work, I really do. But the real world doesn't work that way. If I wore a "Fuck Bush" shirt, or worse, an "I'm gay" shirt to work, we would lose 65% of our business immediately. (I'm just grateful I even HAVE a damn job!)

Dress codes are an injustice in life, just like the millions of other injustices. You just have to deal with it sometimes.

[Diamond Vision]

I used to work at this bakery and one day I came in with nothing but high heels and 4' rainbow colored feather plumes shooting out of my ass...

they politely requested I wear something else the next day.

[hotfoot]

okay, but those are ridiculous examples. if allen iverson leaves a game wearing sebastian bach's infamous "AIDS kills fa**ots dead" t shirt, then, yeah, make him stop.

i don't agree w/ the business argument (because if no one had dress codes, no one would lose business) but if you're gonna argue from that position, how does iverson wearing gold chains and baggy pants hurt the nba's business. when michigan's fab five wore black socks (a horrible fashion faux pas) and baggy shorts, the ncaa made a crap load of money.

i'm not defending players' style choices. but just 'cause someone wearing socks and sandles makes me cringe it doesn't mean i'm gonna make 'em take 'em off.


**stupid moderator

[hotfoot]

honkola, stop being such a communist.


stop spelling my name incorrectly.

[withoutcanseco]

crabapple? i've been calling her Crandall!


what is the proper spelling? i thought that was it.

[matty]

if no one had dress codes, no one would lose business

Yeah, but lots and lots of places do have dress codes, and somewhere someplace always will.

how does iverson wearing gold chains and baggy pants hurt the nba's business

I'll concede this point. Gold chains look good even under "professional" dress code standards. Baggy pants are all right, as long as they're not so baggy that the crotch is in your knees. Then you just look like a retard. (Baggy pants also tend to give people what I call the "poo sack," where it sticks out awkardly and looks like you're wearing a diaper.)

if allen iverson leaves a game wearing sebastian bach's infamous "AIDS kills fa**ots dead" t shirt, then, yeah, make him stop.

I know it seems ridiculous that Iverson would wear that shirt, but what about some lesser player? As I said, people are idiots and can't be trusted to dress themselves. Though it seems far fetched, I promise you that sooner or later some asshole's going to wear something scandalous, and then the owner of the team will be under pressure to make a public apology or something, and owner's don't like to have to do that.

I don't know that much about sports politics, tho. Maybe it's a much different climate than the business world I'm used to. At any rate, I really don't care whether or not these guys have a dress code, because I don't watch much basketball. I would never know the difference if this thing had never happened. Maybe this is just another example of the white man trying to suppress the Brothas...

[Diamond Vision]

isn't it spelled Krabappel?