I find it quite ironic that while the Hip Hop look is outlawed in the league, go to any game and tell me what music you hear blaring through the PA system, yup, rap!

 

Suits are not going to stop players from acting the way they do, Kobe bryant wears expensive as hell suits and he is still a scumbag nailing hotel bi***es when his wife is away.

Dress Code does not fix the problems

The NBA players are being forced to dress up to and from games, busses, cars whereever. not just during the game when they are a representative of the NBA. Firemen, McD's workers, Police officers are not forced to wear work clothes outside of work why should it apply to the NBA?

 

EXACTLY!!!

The media is so embedded in the everyday lives of these guys that what they wear should be the least of the league's worries. So I guess, when you realize that fact, the league is in a catch 22.

 

[QUOTE=VRGNCD5]The fundamental difference I see between NBA players and us regular folk, is that those guys have no privacy. If AI's friend's, cousins, uncles, sisters, brother get arrested for dope, it makes national headlines insenuating that AI is involved somehow, only to get to the last paragraph where in fine print it says "it is not known if AI was present at the time of the occurance." When was the last time you can recall the local Mickey D's worker getting his name dirtied like that? With the exception of the military, do either one of those professions you named dictate what employees in said professions can wear to and from their job? And in regards to the military, their dress code wasn't just dumped upon them one day, it's been like that forever. But anyways, when your personal life is put out for the world to see, and when the commentary and media coverage of the game is as personality based as it is in the NBA(unlike other sports), people are more informed(in most cases, TOO informed) about the players and have more information upon which to come to a conclusion about the kind of people these guys are, effecting the percieved image of these guys and the league. When you walk into a Police station and see everybody in uniform, that does present a very professional appearance, i'm not arguing that a bit. But that appearance is all you have to work with as far as the image they project because their personal business, good and bad, is not put out in front of the world for all to see and pick apart so their appearance plays a significantly more important role in their image than that of NBA players.

That being said, I can't see how the image of the league can or will be changed thanks to this dress code, because unless the coverage focuses more on the game itself instead of individuals, image will always be an issue because we all know that guys like MJ, Magic and Grant Hill are a rare breed.[/QUOTE
well said!!!!!!! by the way here in so.cal they have dress codes in schools, and that still has not stop gang banging......... my home boy is a fire fighter he show shows up at the station in baggy jeans and tee shirt as well as his peers once there he changes!!!!! so why??? is david trying to change the image that has paid his pay check!!!!!

 

because your friends aren't publicly seen role models. You pay a guy a couple million of dollars and all you ask of him is to play the game and dress accordingly while your portraying the image of the NBA, yes they are portraying the image of the NBA when they are out. You don't just call him Kobe Bryant, you call him the basketball player, and when you associate a basketball player with a league it's the NBA. What it basically boils down to is what kind of image the NBA wants to make for itself by intituting a dress code. They want their players to look professional does that mean they want them to act professional, that isn't a requirement. It's just clothes, and I think you guys are getting a bit too hyped up over a dress code that doesn't even affect you. Free speech and expression through clothing is fine, but when you get paid to fly to other arenas to play a sport you should follow their rules because they are paying you a ridiculous amount to go play a game you love not vice versa. The players are a representative of the NBA and if the NBA wants it's representatives to look professional so be it.

This is all I'm going to say and if you guys want to suck each others dicks about how I am wrong go right ahead.

 

the image of the league will not change simply because of how a player dresses,that's the point here. What's the general consensus about politicians? And you see what they wear everyday. They're the shadiest group of people in this country. I've never heard anyone say "yeah Bush sucks as president, but he looks so damn professional."

Page 4 ownage you beezies!

 

Dude, how can you say it wont change the image? You're totally just pulling it out of your ass!

The image you present changes how you're seen. Case closed.

 

I've pretty much explained it every way possible, I realize that you're "special", but damn.

image: The character projected to the public, as by a person or institution, especially as interpreted by the mass media.


If your crackhead theory about setting boundaries=improved demeanor and better hehavior, why is it that there are active players in the NFL, which has had a formal dress code for quite some time, who have been or are being tried for murder and/or drug trafficking? Name a single player in the NBA who has or is being tried for either one of those crimes. For as deep as the media is in the lives of NBA players, it is impossible for thier image(and subsequently, the image of the league) to be affected in a positive manner when it's not reality that dictates thier image as much as it is an interpretation of reality. Does appearance have anything to do with that? Absolutely, I've admitted as much already, but appearance has never and will never trump a person's character or the interpretations of thier character. If this were not the case, Kobe would have never lost any endorsements or have fallen out of favor with the public over his incident, because he's one of the sharpest dressers in the league.

 

crackhead theory? It's fucking psychology 101 you idiot. Go read a book.

 

You can take em out the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto up outta them.