Oct
22The Allen Iverson Dress Code
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Earlier this week NBA league commissioner, David Stern, announced a new dress code for the NBA. The dress code stipulates players would be required to wear "business casual" attire whenever they are engaged in team or league business. Business casual was defined in the memo as including collared shirts, dress slacks and dress shoes. Sleeveless shirts, t-shirts, sunglasses while indoors, chains, pendants, medallions, sneakers, and flip-flops, were out. Headphones (except on a team bus, plane or in the locker room) were forbidden. This "memo" sounds suspicious to me. There have been many reports that this new dress code attacks hip hop and urban culture. Therefore the new dress code is racially motivated. I personally believe it is attacking one individual, AI. Most of the league, at least most of the in-the-limelight superstars adhere to the Jay Z big pimpin, P Diddy three piece suit anyway. |
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There is only one superstar, one house-hold name that doesn’t. AI doesn’t wear a suit. He barely goes to practice. After the game, Allen Iverson puts on his giant white shirt, his watch that costs more than your house, his hat with a tilt and a medallion that could feed Latrell Sprewell’s family for at least 10 years. That’s AI. He’s OG. He is covered with tattoos that express his own style. Does the league really care what Olu Famutimi is wearing? If Olu’s coach tells him to be in a suit, he will be. This RULE is designed to white-wash one man. It’s ridiculous and I will be sure to wear my bling, my baggie clothes, and my hat with a tilt to every NBA game I go to this year.
