If NBA commissioner David Stern really wants to make fans feel more comfortable, he should require players to wear kimonos.
Sounds ridiculous? So is the newly required dress code, which feels like an ageist and bigoted decision by Baby Boomers who can’t relate to the young black men of the hip-hop generation who now dominate the NBA.
Read my Sunday Arts column. Also read Tom Sorensen's column.
Then tells us what you think by posting your comments below.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Make Ron Artest wear a kimono
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My question would be - it's his company - they are his employees - what gives you or I the right to have an opinion on what rules (which in NO WAY violate human rights, nor do the endanger the safety or well being of his employees)?
Are there not better things to be concerned about then what the NBA wants their players to be dressed in?
I completly agree with David Stern. The outfits that some of this guys wear is ridiculous. Sometimes you can't tell the b-ball players from the gangsta rappers.
Bigoted because they can't relate to thug culture? Please. All one needs to do is look at the Detroit-Indiana brawl last year as support for stringent codes of conduct in the NBA.
I don't understand what's wrong with a dress code while these athletes are working. The rest of us in the real world seem to conform just fine without complaining about "the man." I guess warped values are a byproduct of being paid to party.
how is this "THUG" culture what ever that means. hip hop is not all about sagging pant and gold chains and not all hip hop artists are thugs if you really knew anything about hip hop you would know that quite a few of these so called thugs are very educated either graduated from college with degrees or are in college as we speak. i dont think there is a big problem with the dress code but the way they singled out the style they DONT want is a problem with me.
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