I totally agree with the dress code. When I play high school sports I had to dress up before and after the game. Although basketball is an entertainment sport, its a business and dressing the part is apart of work. In other words they can accept the code or quit making those millions that they make.

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The NBA Dress Code: It's Not The Dress, It's The Stereotypes
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, BlackNews.com Columnist

The NBA players that screamed racism when the NBA demanded that they dump their bling-bling chains, pendants, medallions, baggy pants, hang dog sweats and tee shirts when involved in team or league business, miss the point. The ban on their ghetto chic dress is not a denial of their right to personal expression, civil rights, a violation of their hip-hop lifestyle, or a racist ploy by the NBA to spruce up its image among white suburban fans, and its corporate backers.

Their dress, hip style, brash bravado, and the gangster rap that blare out of the NBA locker rooms and even through the PA systems at games reinforces the old stereotypes that young black males are sullen, defiant, and eternally in rebellion against the established order, and that includes the NBA. That has convinced even more Americans that the thug lifestyle is the black lifestyle.

The self-indulgent, pampered, overpaid, NBA guys that make 10 to 15 million dollars a year don't see it that way, and there's a reason. From the moment they put on uniforms, these super talented athletes become the instant repository of the dreams, delusions and fantasies of a public desperately in need of vicarious escape. They are swooned, and fawned over by a star-struck media.

Though some have never set foot on a college campus, and the others that have never had a thought about getting a college degree, yet they are still paid a king's ransom for playing a kid's game, while demanding the right to dress like kids. It's their swagger, defiance, and dress that stirs the imagination of many young black males. They identify with them because they believe that they are one of them.

That dress style, however, instantly profiles them. They are rammed unceremoniously against walls, and on street corner curbs, and fume while police run their whole life history through computers. They are subject to the gawking and prying eyes and stares of store clerks and shadowed by store detectives while they shop. Job interviewers summarily reject them. They are suspended or expelled from high schools in disproportionate numbers. Dress profiling is not reserved solely for the young blacks in tough inner city neighborhoods. Any young black male whether he's a Rhodes scholar, National Science Medal winner or junior achievement awardee, could find himself tagged as a gangster simply because of their dress.



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I know this will generate a lot of discussion. :)

Okay I know we believe in baby steps but the commissioner has to do a whole lot more than implement a dress code. He needs harsher inforcements for those players who break the law before, during or after the game. The players need to be hit hard in the pocket book and in their playing time.