NBA Commissioner Stern Continues to Clean Up the NBA Image - Page 3

enigma_AKA · #1 10-19-2005, 02:56 PM

How hard is it to put on business attire?

It's not as if the NBA mandated their players to make the clothes. They didn't ask them to make the silk shirts they might wear and they didn't ask them to endure labor-like conditions to shed the sweat pants and put on some creased slacks. They're asking them to dress like grown men. How difficult can that be?

Also, to Stephen Jackson: Shut up. Please.

enigma_AKA

CrimsonTide4 · #2 10-19-2005, 03:04 PM

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Originally posted by SKEEphistAKAte
I don't see any problem with the dress code. I think that black folks are extremely creative when it comes to fashion so we will hip-hopnotize the new dress code if we need to. It reminds me of the episode where Fresh Prince went to the private school where he had to wear a uniform. So to customize it to his style, he turned the blazer inside out and wore the tie without a button-down shirt.
The NBA players, in essence, could do the same thing if they still feel the need to show their individual style. The code says nothing about what colors or fabrics they can wear. It says nothing about whether the dress shoes have to be Stacey Adams or Gators from Detroit Dave's Shoe House.
Kanye and Jay-Z made it fashionable to dress like you are headed to the Country Club anyway. And Kanye, especially is creative with his. I don't see any reason why the NBA players can't do the same.

Exactly!! Plus like I said before, if they work it right, they can come up with a line of suits and like attire for men.

drcassandraa · #3 10-19-2005, 03:37 PM

when i was in high school, no matter what team you were on, you were required to come to school on the day of games in business attire... i didn't see anything wrong with it...

once these men realize just how downright delicious they look in a custom tailored suit (which they ALL make enough money to afford), they will want to wear them all the time!!!! if you are an athelete why are you wearing 5 carat diamond earrings and platinum chains with a billion diamonds on the pendant to a game ANYWAY????? leave that shyt for the club and hanging out on personal time...

Steeltrap · #4 10-19-2005, 06:02 PM

I also have no major issues with the dress code. I'm surprised, however, that TIM DUNCAN, of all people, was complaining about it. TD has got to be the blandest colorless

man ever, and he's complaining?

But I don't want to see this, though:

mulattogyrl · #5 10-20-2005, 09:45 AM

^^^ Lol @ Steeltrap.

CrimsonTide4 · #6 10-20-2005, 09:47 AM

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Originally posted by Steeltrap
I also have no major issues with the dress code. I'm surprised, however, that TIM DUNCAN, of all people, was complaining about it. TD has got to be the blandest colorless man ever, and he's complaining?

But I don't want to see this, though:

According to the new code, Shaq is not in compliance. He is violating the hat and chain rule.

Honeykiss1974 · #7 10-20-2005, 09:49 AM

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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
According to the new code, Shaq is not in compliance. He is violating the hat and chain rule.

That's racist CT4! You know that wearing the chain on the outside is cultural. Shaq can't help it.

Steeltrap · #8 10-20-2005, 11:20 AM

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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
According to the new code, Shaq is not in compliance. He is violating the hat and chain rule.

He sure is. And did you know that was his Omega medallion? I remember him talking about it during one of the press conferences.

DPiece7 · #9 10-23-2005, 12:49 AM

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Originally posted by SKEEphistAKAte
I don't see any problem with the dress code. I think that black folks are extremely creative when it comes to fashion so we will hip-hopnotize the new dress code if we need to. It reminds me of the episode where Fresh Prince went to the private school where he had to wear a uniform. So to customize it to his style, he turned the blazer inside out and wore the tie without a button-down shirt.
The NBA players, in essence, could do the same thing if they still feel the need to show their individual style. The code says nothing about what colors or fabrics they can wear. It says nothing about whether the dress shoes have to be Stacey Adams or Gators from Detroit Dave's Shoe House.
Kanye and Jay-Z made it fashionable to dress like you are headed to the Country Club anyway. And Kanye, especially is creative with his. I don't see any reason why the NBA players can't do the same.

I see a problem with it...

Basketball is an entertainment type career. It's not your normal 9 to 5 corporate career, so let's not try to pretend like it is. Do music execs ask Mike Jones and TI to tuck in their chains and wear suits to business meetings relating to their professions?? No. Because even though they are attending business meetings, they are still entertainers and it would be ridiculous to ask them to play a part they were never intended to play in the first place. If basketball players want to get dressed up for conferences and such when they feel like it then so be it... but for Mr. Stern to impose such a policy on players when they have been able to dress as they please up until this point, that is ridiculous.... and BTW, I love to see AI with huge diamond studs on at press conferences after a game... its who he is and if thats what he wants to wear, then so be it.

Conskeeted7 · #10 10-23-2005, 02:04 AM

Most workplaces hav a dress code, so I don't see a difference. I can't arrive at work with jogging pants and a tank top. In fact, there are very few people who can. I think it's a small gesture to ask from someone who's being paid millions of dollars a year. I'll wear a suit EVERYDAY when my salary becomes half of what most NBA players make.

Lady2000 · #11 10-23-2005, 11:26 PM

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.

Honeykiss1974 · #12 11-02-2005, 04:59 PM

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.

read the rest here

CrimsonTide4 · #13 10-31-2006, 07:34 AM

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...yhoo&type=lgns

Stern Continues to Clean Up the NBA image

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For the start of the 2006-07 season on Tuesday night, Stern has stolen a page out of departed NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue's old playbook, angling to regulate his players' appearance on the court after implementing a dress code off it a year ago. No more arm sleeves, no more layers of shorts sticking out of game shorts, no more wristbands pushed up to the elbow.

I know this will generate a lot of discussion.

BlessedOne04 · #14 10-31-2006, 02:38 PM

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.