What's the NBA gonna do? Fire all of them if they wear gold chains.
I'm in total agreement.
Thugs that get millions for playing a game.
Right, the National High School Basketball Association is 99.9999999% black, with two or three token whites and others, yet it is racists. Right. Made millionaires out of blacks who cannot read or write and dance to gangster music, drive Mercedes automobiles, but the majority are white owners who are racists. Right. Sure. /sarcasm still on.
Can we all agree that once the British broadsheets start hesitantly using a piece of American slang, it is time to retire it?
The image of the NBA is tarnished because of the actions of some of its players, not because of how they dress.
I was listening to Doc Rivers with Jim Rome today.
He said that dressing up is nice, but it's the players conduct that will determine whether they continue to lose fans or not. He said that he hopes maybe having the players dress up and act like businessmen, that maybe they will start to watch what they do off of the court as well.
Weak I know, but the NBA had to try something. Their ratings have been falling for at least 7 years straight (the last Jordan final)....
I hear you Allen! I have to wear a shirt and tie with dress pants everyday and my boss, err...my OPPRESSOR I meant, makes me buy them. I would hate to see having to use some of your millions to buy some work cloths for yourself.
If this is true, then the company for which I work has been racist for a long time. Business casual is actually dressing down in most offices.
Yeah. I thought chains were a statement of slavery.
Maybe this clown should try working on a chain gang rather than the pampered NBA lifestyle if he likes them so much.
I'm not about to start watching the NBA again, but I'm impressed that management has at least taken a small step to reverse the thug culture. Let's see how they stand up to the racism charges.
I thought Stephen Jackson was the most violent of all the players involved in the Pistons-Pacers brawl last year. But then, maybe I'm just a racist.
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And I thought I'd read something about him stating that he's cutting back as well (I think it was something to do with concern over poverty in the world or some such...if so, good for him).
I got a suggestion. Don't show them getting off the busses at all. Let them wear what they want going into the stadium. Only show them when they are on the court. If they are hurt and can't play and are sitting on the bench then it changes. Either they wear a suit or some kind of nice dress clothes. If they don't want to wear that they will be given the option of wearing the team warmup suits.
If someone was paying me a few MILLION DOLLARS for doing something that I do easily and well, I would wear a pink tutu if they wanted. :)
A dress code to do what? To persuade the public that the NBA is a civilized sports organization, that it is not populated by thugs and punks, that it really deserves the revenues it wants, that it is not merely a lawless ghetto-on-hardwood? I think it might be too late for that.
