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Stephen Jackson/NBA ban (merged)

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Hey! If you looked like this...you'd want something flashy around your neck to distract people from your face too!

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It's not racists...it's petty. You are playing in the NBA...be thankful for that...geez. Who cares whether u wear a chain or not. They aren't attacking you...they are just trying to make people look less tacky. Long gold chains look tacky. I'm sure lots of white basketball players wear them too, and i'm sure lots of young black basketball players don't. Either have a dress code or not...but if you are going to have one, then I think not wearing chains is proper. It's just a stupid thing to complain about...you can still wear them under your clothes.
 
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I love how he says thier attacking a culture. They're not they are just asking them to dress more respectfully. even P. Diddy has went more classy and less tacky.....My take on this is street clothes are made for the street not for work. If your work ask you to wear a suit everyday you probably would....and that's making a lot less than a million greenbacks a year. If my job required me to show up in a monkey suit for a million a year I would have no problem with that. Apparently these guys are above that according to the way they bitch.
 
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While you can say its an attempt to clean up the image of the league and get away from the "thugged out" look, you can also say that basketball is a sport that is embraced by black culture and the players are mostly black. The players are what make up the league, not the owners and certainly not Stern.

The people who buy tickets and merchandise that financially support the league, and the teams therein, are what matter. Most of these fans are young men or teenagers. While I don't have the demographics in front of me, I'll say that over 50% are black.

So when you set policy that effects mostly black people (players and fans), essentially bans a culture from the sport (Hip Hop), and tries to institute a dress code that matches corporate white America's image of what is right, I'd say it is overtly prejudiced.

The NBA, and basketball as a sport, are a culture unto its own. They sell mass amounts of team merchandise because the demographic it appeals to are the young hip hop crowd. There is no better market than the 18-25 year-old male demographic. They have huge buying power and league sports make fans for life. So as this group of 18-25 year-old ages, they will still be NBA fans and new fans will come aboard in the younger groups.

Why, as a league, they wouldn't embrace this is beyond me. The hip hop culture isn't going away. Why the NBA would choose to alienate it is unfathomable. Quiet simply put, an old white guy should not be running the NBA.
 
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when they are doing their "job", they wear proper attire. while they are "off the clock" they should be allowed to wear whatever the fuck they want. i dont know about this being racist, but its just wrong to me. i dont know how they can say what is tacky and what isn't. this is ridiculous. the nba has much bigger problems than jewlery. get a grip stern.
 
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scooter1369 said:
While you can say its an attempt to clean up the image of the league and get away from the "thugged out" look, you can also say that basketball is a sport that is embraced by black culture and the players are mostly black. The players are what make up the league, not the owners and certainly not Stern.

The people who buy tickets and merchandise that financially support the league, and the teams therein, are what matter. Most of these fans are young men or teenagers. While I don't have the demographics in front of me, I'll say that over 50% are black.

So when you set policy that effects mostly black people (players and fans), essentially bans a culture from the sport (Hip Hop), and tries to institute a dress code that matches corporate white America's image of what is right, I'd say it is overtly prejudiced.

The NBA, and basketball as a sport, are a culture unto its own. They sell mass amounts of team merchandise because the demographic it appeals to are the young hip hop crowd. There is no better market than the 18-25 year-old male demographic. They have huge buying power and league sports make fans for life. So as this group of 18-25 year-old ages, they will still be NBA fans and new fans will come aboard in the younger groups.

Why, as a league, they wouldn't embrace this is beyond me. The hip hop culture isn't going away. Why the NBA would choose to alienate it is unfathomable. Quiet simply put, an old white guy should not be running the NBA.
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well said, and dead on. i dont understand how david stern gets to say what is tacky or not. doesnt make much sense. they get paid to play basketball. while they are doing their job, they wear a uniform. if the leauge wants to say they cant wear ten lb earrings during games, fine. but to say that there is a dress code on the way to the job is stupid.
 
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