NBA Installs Dress Code for its players
Now unless I’m wrong, most of us work professional jobs. We might have dress down Fridays but we just can’t roll up to our jobs with shorts and T-shirts everyday. They call it business casual, meaning do anything to keep looking like a thug.
Those of you might not know it but the NBA decided that they grew tired of seeing T-shirts, jeans, baseball caps, long chains, and doo-rags on every player at every event. So now they’ve instituted a new dress code.
Players will be expected to wear business casual attire whenever they participate in team or league activities, including arriving at games, leaving games and making promotional or other appearances.
Players will no longer be able to wear:
-- Sleeveless shirts
-- Shorts
-- T-shirts
-- Chains, pendants, or medallions worn over the player's clothes.
-- Sunglasses while indoors
-- Headphones (other than on the team bus or plane, or in the team locker room).
Also jerseys and baseball caps will no longer be acceptable attire for post-game press conference.
As expected the players are throwing a fit over this. Some even said that if the NBA wants them to dress up then they need to stipen them money to get more clothes. Others complain that it takes away their individuality.
In my opinion I don’t think this is too much. They forget that this is entertainment and the league, the people that pay them on average 4 million a year per player, has the right to decide what that image is. It’s not like they are expecting them to look like a they just robbed Brooks Brothers or something, but come on, ya’ll are a bunch of millionaires, try to dress like it.
Do you think that this is too much? Do you think that the league has no right to ask the players to do this?
Those of you might not know it but the NBA decided that they grew tired of seeing T-shirts, jeans, baseball caps, long chains, and doo-rags on every player at every event. So now they’ve instituted a new dress code.
Players will be expected to wear business casual attire whenever they participate in team or league activities, including arriving at games, leaving games and making promotional or other appearances.
Players will no longer be able to wear:
-- Sleeveless shirts
-- Shorts
-- T-shirts
-- Chains, pendants, or medallions worn over the player's clothes.
-- Sunglasses while indoors
-- Headphones (other than on the team bus or plane, or in the team locker room).
Also jerseys and baseball caps will no longer be acceptable attire for post-game press conference.
As expected the players are throwing a fit over this. Some even said that if the NBA wants them to dress up then they need to stipen them money to get more clothes. Others complain that it takes away their individuality.
In my opinion I don’t think this is too much. They forget that this is entertainment and the league, the people that pay them on average 4 million a year per player, has the right to decide what that image is. It’s not like they are expecting them to look like a they just robbed Brooks Brothers or something, but come on, ya’ll are a bunch of millionaires, try to dress like it.
Do you think that this is too much? Do you think that the league has no right to ask the players to do this?
I read the article this morning. I think it's unfair because they are going to work in an environment where everyone else is dressed down. At the press conferences, even the reporters are dressed down. I think it's ironic that it has started with basketball and not the other sports. I'm like the next woman who likes to see a man in a suit, but I also like to see them in casual attire as well; especially when the occasion calls for it. Most of the corporate world has gone to a business casual attire. Slacks and a shirt with no tie or jacket will do. I don't know. It just seems like much ado about nothing to me.
Then again... It's just my opinion.
Mo