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Ahh...the game within the Game.
I'm with the "Dress Professional" crowd. Some of the responses from the players are hilarious. The point some of the players make that noone sees them off the court doesn't fly. During the playoffs particularly, the cameras are always following them around before and after games. LeBron James' opinion in particular surprises me, very mature for such a young guy.
"I think it's a load of crap...I think it's basically retarded. "I don't like the direction they're going, but who am I?"
-- Tim Duncan
"I just think people should be able to express themselves....Who really cares about what they wear from the bus to the locker room?"
-- Vince Carter
"I thought it was funny they can't wear any of the jewelry and stuff like that. That's stricter than the dress code in a lot of office buildings."
-- Heat head coach Stan Van Gundy
"No it's not a big deal, not to me. Sometimes you feel lazy and you don't feel like putting some clothes on, but this is a job. We are going to have fun, but this is a job and we should look like we're going to work, that's the way they feel."
-- Cavs swingman LeBron James
"The players have been dressing in prison garb the last five or six years. All the stuff that goes on, it's like gangster, thuggery stuff. It's time. It's been time to do that. But one must remember where one came from. I was wearing bib overalls when I was a player one time. But I wasn't going to the games or events in them.
-- Lakers head coach Phil Jackson
"I think they're coming on way too strict. Movie stars in L.A., they're not always in jackets and ties, and they're setting trends, and we're looked at in the same light."
-- Timberwolves forward Wally Szczerbiak
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