Dressing For Baskets?
Do you have to wear a school uniform? Do you hate not being able to express yourself? Now image you are a 28-35 year old professional basketball player and someone is telling you what to wear before, during, and after a big game. For school, if you break the dress code you get sent to the principles office and asked to get changed. For basketball players, they get a fine and a possible suspension from the game. It is frustrating when someone tells you what to do because no one likes to be told to do something.
What is the NBA Dress Code?
Since 2005, the Nation Basketball Association (NBA) created a dress code for their players. The dress code states, "Players must wear shirts and slacks or a suit when traveling or making official NBA appearances" (Scholastic News, 2005). All players must follow the dress code, even players like LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and many more of your favorite basketball players. If these players do not follow the dress code, it can cost them their careers.
Who Started it All?
Allen Iverson is one of the prime reasons the NBA has a dress code. Iverson would show up to NBA events wearing a flat hat, baggy pants, and chains around his neck. The NBA saw him as unprofessional and hurting the league. David Stern was the one who stated the dress code and believed it would help the players look clean and more professional if they all wore the same thing.
What Do you Think?
So here is a question for you, would you're favorite basketball player still be the same if they wore unprofessional clothing? So going back to school uniforms, do you think students can express themselves even though they have to wear the same thing as everyone else? This is a common concern in the NBA too. By all the players dressing alike, fans believe they are no longer unique and they can not express who they are. If your role model dressed the same as everyone else how are they unique? Basketball players now have to express themselves not through clothing, but through their talent.
What is the Lesson?
The overall lesson for you is be who you want to be not who others tell you to be. Just because people tell you to dress, look, or act a certain way does not mean you have to change who you are.
What is the NBA Dress Code?
Since 2005, the Nation Basketball Association (NBA) created a dress code for their players. The dress code states, "Players must wear shirts and slacks or a suit when traveling or making official NBA appearances" (Scholastic News, 2005). All players must follow the dress code, even players like LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and many more of your favorite basketball players. If these players do not follow the dress code, it can cost them their careers.
Who Started it All?
Allen Iverson is one of the prime reasons the NBA has a dress code. Iverson would show up to NBA events wearing a flat hat, baggy pants, and chains around his neck. The NBA saw him as unprofessional and hurting the league. David Stern was the one who stated the dress code and believed it would help the players look clean and more professional if they all wore the same thing.
What Do you Think?
So here is a question for you, would you're favorite basketball player still be the same if they wore unprofessional clothing? So going back to school uniforms, do you think students can express themselves even though they have to wear the same thing as everyone else? This is a common concern in the NBA too. By all the players dressing alike, fans believe they are no longer unique and they can not express who they are. If your role model dressed the same as everyone else how are they unique? Basketball players now have to express themselves not through clothing, but through their talent.
What is the Lesson?
The overall lesson for you is be who you want to be not who others tell you to be. Just because people tell you to dress, look, or act a certain way does not mean you have to change who you are.
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