The Big Shorts: An era in basketball fashion is coming to an end

The Washington Post ^ | January 21, 2016 | Jorge Castillo

[MinorityRepublican]

Jerry West, the model for the logo of the National Basketball Association, wore basketball shorts the length of loincloths. Michael Jordan inspired a major alteration when he appealed for a longer and baggier cut. Then a group of freshmen at the University of Michigan known as the “Fab Five” became a national sensation in the early 1990s in part because of their sartorial swagger, with shorts that dropped below their knees. For years after, the subject of inseams inspired older observers of the game to fret: How low could they go?

But now, the hemline is creeping back up.

In early November, Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James declared he would wear skinnier and shorter shorts this season, his 13th in the league, because he wanted to present a more professional appearance. But while he is the highest-profile convert to the shorter short, he isn’t the first. The emerging generation of pro basketball players, one that came of age wearing tighter clothes off the floor, beat him to it.

[SamAdams76]

Next is to bring back 1970s-era tube socks. The woman in the back appears to approve...

I don't know what those two tennis players are doing here but they might need to rent a room.

[MinorityRepublican]

The pics you showed me, the shorts were too short. The guys wearing chubbies here, now that's more like it!

[SeaHawkFan]

Wonder just how many people can name those two basketball players anymore?

[MikeD]

Dan Issel and Artis Gilmore for the old-school ABA Kentucky Colonels. The latter is also an ex-Spur, making him easier for me to recognize. ;)