NBA: No Business Attire, please!

So David Stern is laying down the law like Paul Tagliabue ever since Ron Artest went, well, Ron Artest. The guy with short man's complex who runs a league where he can't see the top of any player's head is out to dispose of the thuggish image of the NBA.

I like the idea, but i think it's two Michael Jordan retirements too late. MJ made GQ, GQ with his well-tailored suits in post-game interviews, when he came off team buses and when he lost millions in Atlantic City.

But this is 2005, and I want someone to tell me when the Allen Iverson last wore a suit? Probably when he shook Stern's hand at the NBA draft in 1996. Back then, Iverson didn't have cornrows. He was almost clean-cut with the downtown fade.

Now about half of the NBA - which according to Kanye West can afford to contract & dispose of AIDS - would look like idiots in Armani and rows. Think about it. Donavan McNabb is a great quarterback, but he looks like a clown when he puts on a three-piece. Maybe if they were forced to press their hair along with the suits it would work. That would be comedy, and it might bring interest to an otherwise boring NBA regular season.

But most of them have one more suit, the one they met David Stern on the podium in that great day, than they did in high school. That's reason enough to shoot down Stern's idea, but I also love seeing these idiots wearing throwback jerseys of other NBA teams as they do interviews. ...