Dress code

[cavincali]

Are basketball players truly white collar workers? I always viewed physical jobs as blue collar work. If basketball is white collar, we'll just have to agree to disagree. People fail to realize entertainers either break all the rules or are exceptions to all the rules. They aren't like you and me and never will be.

i could really care less. they have 2 arms, legs, eyes, ears, and nostrils. they all can vote, they are like me and you.

they can be pink collar for all i care, bitching about a dress code. :thumbdown

 

[Rimage]

i could really care less. they have 2 arms, legs, eyes, ears, and nostrils. they all can vote, they are like me and you.

they can be pink collar for all i care, bitching about a dress code. :thumbdown

So...they are like you and me so they should wear a suit? Or they make more than you and me ever will so they should wear a suit? Salary has nothing to do with it. I don't think Stern issued a dress code because the player "will be wearing a suit hell even jeans for a couple of HOURS and at the same time he will be making what the vast majority of americans wont make in a year". I also don't think it because he thinks they are spoiled and whiney and therefore spitefully decided to make them wear suits.

I know the players CAN wear a suit, but I haven't heard a good reason WHY they are.

 

[highplainsdrifter]

I agree with West Remy and Rimage on this issue. The clothes do not make the man. Wahts so special about wearin a damn suit anyways? As long as they look nice and dont look like slobs, i dont care what they wear. It limits their individual expression. Hey while were at it, why dont we make a dress code for all people in the world. We dont have enough rules!........

 

[cavincali]

its professional looking. you guys are unreal. the nba is the professional basketball league. they dont have to wear suits, just dont bitch about a dress code.

 

[Rimage]

Well this discussion is going around in circles. Anyhow, I still don't see why the dress code all of a sudden needed to happen. The league thrives of young men like myself who pay for all the merchandise, tickets and media connections, and I liked it the way it was, so it makes very little sense to me why it was implemented. It looks professional, I understand, but to that I say "who cares"? I am still failing to recognize why it happened and why it needed to happen. I am not basing all this on sympathy for the players. I don't care if they hate it or like it, I am saying that I preferred it the way it was.

 

[James]

why did stephen jackson say this is racist?

if any NBA players have problems with it, than they should forfit their contract, because if i was getting 7 million a year, id go to work in a clown suit.

 

[CleveRocks]

Stephen Jackson is stupid and paranoid to say this is racist, but the league is just as foolish to think a dress code will fix its image problems.. Saw Mark Cuban slamming the NFL for having murderers playing football, and since football is doing fine, the fights and gun toting of basketball players shouldn't matter. Thing is that in both cases the leagues are hurt by the behavior, not the clothes.

The players have to realize that the NBA product is more player/star focused, so anything which detracts from the Star players good guy image detracts from the sport as a whole (you listening Kobe?). In football, there is less star power focus so if one drops from grace, it has less of an impact. I say wear all the bling you want or tutus or dennis rodman hair because that is entertainment. Meanwhile, be a good citizen role model for your nieghborhood,for your community, or whatever it is you relate to and it will be OK.