Adam Kalsey

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Those poor NBA players

12 Oct 2005

The NBA has said they’ll be instituting a dress code for players who are at the game but not in uniform. Rather than the jeans, ball caps, and button-up shirts you often see on the bench, the NBA would like the players to wear a jacket and tie. Presumably this is to improve the image of the players and the league, but some of the players are against it.

Marcus Camby is playing the poverty card, saying that if the league wants the players to dress a certain way, they should pay the players to do so. Apparently Camby has forgotten that basketball is already paying him $45 million dollars.

And in the most desparate “think of the children” cry I’ve ever seen, Allen Iverson has suggested that wearing business suits would send the wrong message to kids. That’s because the kids would feel bad when they don’t get to wear the same clothing to school that their favorite NBA players wear courtside.

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