[JRutledge]

Originally posted by RookieDude

IMO, that's probably the best point you have made JRut.
That it is an entertainment industry.

The industry is out there to entertain us...so you might think there would be different standards in dressing as compared to a Fortune 500 business.

But wait, isn't this entertainment industry out to make a buck or two in the process of entertaining us?
Don't they have the right, no responsability, to create an image that will induce profits?

C'mon, we have always known the billionaires are entertaining us with millionaires...call the millionaires "slaves" to their job...but they really are "free" to leave anytime they wish (as Chuck suggested in the record store comment).

I really don't care how they dress...but evidently, someone does, and that someone may have the power to make it happen.

Whether someone has the right or not is not the issue. I am sure they have the right to do something that does not make the policy right. The NBA is even trying to tell people whether the players wear headphones. I think that is a bit much now. I have no problem with a dress code. I just think the NBA needs to realize that you will have fans that are not from Corporate America that buys their video games and sneakers with their players on them and other merchandise that is not the suit wearing people. Most of us that attend games in the arena are never going to see what players wear to and from games. It is the TV audience that is going to watch those games and it will not be the executives of large companies that will if Ben Wallace wears headphones to a game. If you want to appeal to Corporate America so much, why not tell the players they cannot wear corn rolls or other non-conventional hair styles?

Peace