For the love of God, someone please explain to me why NBA players dress so weird

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

It's just the young guys, right?

They're following the trends of their era, is all...

 

[The Jewnited States]

So you like to party with 17 year old girls?

Come have a seat bruh

Spoiler

lol i ain't say i was there WITH them

 

[skb1065]

Hipster movement has taken over, and its disgusting...

 

[SuburbanPimp]

It's just so lame though... You can tell Durant & Westbrook shop together

I really think its an inside joke with Westbrook, KD, Harden to see who can out lame each other.

Once Stern started hating on the Gawd A.I. with the dress code it all went downhill.

 

[PortCityProphet]

cause despite them being athletes their lames.

 

[SubLyminalz]

Hipster movement has taken over, and its disgusting...

harden dosent even look like a hipster in this pic.

 

[Henry Orbit]

The recent issue of Time has an explanation:

Several NBA players, including Thunder F Kevin Durant, Knicks F Amar'e Stoudemire and Heat G Dwyane Wade, have adopted the "geek chic" fashion style, and the "professorial, downright dorktastic African-American NBA stars are defying the expectation that they wear an intimidating hood facade," according to Sean Gregory of TIME magazine. The players also are "changing how we view black athletes -- and how they view themselves.” Durant said that he “wanted his NBA peers to accept him -- backpack, horn-rimmed glasses, buttoned-all-the-way-up-to-the-collar plaid shirts and all.” Gregory notes in Durant, the NBA “has an ideal front man for the geek-chic craze: a humble, loyal superstar.” Durant “insists he’s not dressing to make a social statement ... but he’s aware that geek chic gives NBA players a cheekier image, and he embraces it." Durant said, “If people always see you upset, always see you with baggy clothes, see you wearing dark colors, it’s normal for a person to think, Oh if that’s how he looks, that’s how he is. When somebody sees me, I want them to think of someone who’s always smiling, always positive, always selfless.” Stylist June Ambrose sees a “playful rebellion against the NBA rule passed in 2005 that requires business-casual dress for players sitting on the bench because of injury.” Instead of going corporate, the players “went preppy.” Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris said that President Obama “deserves some of the credit for this shift” in style. Morris: “Black men are breaking out of the hole we’ve been put in”

Read more: NBA Nerd Alert - TIME

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

They're black

I've realized that most of y'all on this forum haven't been around a lot of black people. They tend to go a little overboard when it comes to dressing

 

[Trip]

I associate this hipster movement with kids getting softer and softer. ie flopping, faking being hurt etc

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

They're all based, that's why.

And I think they might be showing rebelliousness towards David Stern's dress code.

 

[MikelArteta]

I remember when only rivers cuomo from Weezer Was wearing those type of frames now every Tom dikk and Harry is

I hate hipstera

 

[GoFlipAPack]

Better question though...are you blind?

And i though steve harvey used to have some ugly ass suits. This guy cheese eyes takes the cake. Da fukk is he wearing?

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

And I think they might be showing rebelliousness towards David Stern's dress code.

What are you talking about.Stern is loving this shyt.You go from the bubble vest ,tims, iced out chain, Iverson type era to this sweet in the booty ass shyt.This shyt is like a dream come true to him.

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

Better question though...are you blind?

nicca fresh to death

 

[PortCityProphet]

The recent issue of Time has an explanation:

horrible explanation. so they're gonna pass over looking respectable by wearing a suit to look respectable by dressing like Urkel? they're lame dudes who follow lame trends no more to it. they aren't trying to make a statement they are just trying to be "different"