NBA Dress Code - 3 Years Later (ESPN Bucher)

I agree with KME on the premise that the dress code is wrong. Let's leave it at that.

 

Let's hear it to NBA players playing the game in business suits!

Enough with that uniform none-sense. It also makes a good business decision on the part of the NBA - instead of selling you $40 shirts they would be able to sell you $500 suits.

 

I agree how much money they make shouldn't factor into what they are asked to do.

However, if I were offered $5 and hour to shovel poop I wouldn't do it. If I were offered $1 million dollars a year to shovel poop, but the person running my company demanded that I wear a suit and tie, you better believe I'd be heading over to the Men's Warehouse. I would be a fool to say, "That's racist and un-American, you take your million dollars are give it to someone else."

 

Fantastic point! Not being able to ride motorcycles is racist and unamerican!

Repped

 

Because it could hurt or possibly kill them. They're dangerous activities, and if the worst case scenario happens, then it hurts the team that employs them. Teams don't dish out clauses like that to better their image or torment the players, the teams are protecting themselves. If people don't walk into a workplace with business outfits on, who gets hurt by that??

They are paid as basketball players. I don't agree with the public appearances thing either.

 

Who am I kidding. I shovel poop on the weekends for fun.

 

I think that there probably is a racial/cultural component to it. Stern is well within his rights to make this rule (as all the examples from other walks of life illustrate), but one can certainly question the motivation. Would it really be inappropriate or strange for athletes to be in casual clothes on the bench, or to do interviews in casual clothes? There's no objective reason why that's stranger than wearing suits on the bench or musicians doing interviews in casual clothes. I think Stern believes (rightly or wrongly) that a great deal of mainstream viewers will be turned off or threatened by players "looking too black." So, he's made a business decision (which has clear racial and cultural considerations) to make his product more palatable to those people.

If there wasn't a perception of "black" "thug" wardrobe, if all players considered casual clothing to be khakis and t-shirts or sweats, I doubt the rule would ever have happened. I obviously can't prove this, so I don't claim it's Truth...it's just my view of how Stern does things.

 

Do you think the NBA is a game or a business? If it were a game, anything outside of the court shouldn't matter. If it is a business, then public relations certainly matter.

 

They earn a salary, and are not hourly, therefore you lose the ability to say that they are only paid for 48 minutes. Find a new argument.

People who play the racist card for attention are racist. Yeah, I am talking to you.

 

What a joke of a post.

Okay, that's you. Not sure about that analogy, considering shoveling poop completely contradicts the positive image supposedly cast by your attire.

OK, how is the NBA similar to any of those? Let's look at each case seperately please.[/quote]

 

No. How is this relevant to the NBA anyway? David Geffen wears jeans everyday. Steve Jobs worse shirts and no shoes. Does the CEO of Def Jam records wear a gold chain?

If the NBA is going to require uniforms they should be required to pay for those uniforms. Telling someone they can't wear a $100 hoodie anymore and have to wear a $5,000 suit without paying them more is as un-american as it gets.

 

I bet you Chris Anderson is much more upset than Ray Allen about the dress code...

 

And anyone who is turned on/off from a sports league depending on the players' wardrobe is a dipshit.

 

Its a sad world we live in when middle-aged, racist, judgemental pieces of shit can influence the decisions of the NBA commissioner.

 

Wrong. The NBA doesn't require uniforms, they require a level of dress. Check any tax code and they distinguish between the two. I have to wear a collard shirt to work, and my work doesn't pay for my clothing bill.

There is nothing in the dress code that says a player needs to spend $5000 on a suit. You can find full suits for $300 at Macy's. I'm sure that is less expensive than some of the "casual" outfits that were being sported before.

 

I absolutely did not say that. I did not say anything like that. Please do not lie about what I say ever again. Christians aren't supposed to lie.

 

What?? I missed that! Great deal!