[MikefromOhio]

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)....

[RetiredArmy]

The NBA might appeal to someone, it did me once, when players could actually shoot a basketball from more than 3 feet and could hit a free throw. All the NBA is today, is a bunch of high school players who could not pass the ACT test to get into college, or quit college because they could not hack it. All they can do is DUNK or shoot 40-foot 3 point attempts. Hell, I can stand 25 feet from the basket and hit 3 of 10 shots. And the consider that good. The NBA is no defense, shoot, pass behind the back three times, and quit dribbling 10 feet from the basket, taking 4 or 5 steps to dunk the ball. Used too, they called travels after 2 steps, but what the heck, we wanna see Shaq dunk again, like his other 3 million dunks we missed. He cannot shot beyond 6 feet. At least Jabbar learned to shoot the sky hook from 6 to 10 feet from the basket to improve his game. Not these cruds. I quit going to the Supersonic games several years ago. I simply got tired of watching street ball for $45 a pop from the nose bleed seats. Now, ESPN carries that garbage half the night, local street dunk-a-thons. I loved it when college outlawed the dunk many years ago. It actually made them learn to play the damned game. The NBA sucks. I no longer watch it and refuse to even check the scores. 95% of them are nothing short of big mouth punks.

[goodnesswins]

Well...it's kind of like requiring UNIFORMS for school kids.....maybe they'll rise up to the challenge? And act older than jr hi kids? We can hope.

[Panic in the Streets]

People temd to act nicer if they're dressed nicer.

There is a reason why som many companies are getting away from the casual dress code...because employees were goofing off more instead of working.

[jocon307]

Your post reminded me of that old saying: clothes make the man.