“Liberty, liberty, darling”. In the midst of an era dedicated to combat and social justice, NBA coaches are winning the right to wear anything other than a suit on game night. The kind of small victory that would have had its place in the Palmashow video, so much it must be reluctant to wear three layers of fabric in a room at 40 ° C. We debrief this breaking, which is a little out of the ordinary.
This is one of the major victories of our century for NBA players, their coaches will no longer smell hay after 48 minutes of instructions given in the middle of a boiling room. Tested for the first time in the Orlando bubble, this modification of the dress code was kept for the 2020-21 fiscal year, and is therefore about to be recycled for the 2021-22 season. However, Marc Stein – insider for the New York Times, which informs us of the news – gives no additional information as to the future of this new rule, and if it is still in its period of structuring. One can easily imagine the joy of Tom Thibodeau who would wear a zipped down jacket even at his daughter’s wedding. For some, this expansion of dress code is not going to change anything, they who advocate by their dress style, a foolproof class. We think of Ime Udoka, new velleda of the Boston Celtics, for which coming undermined as in training would amount to moral torture. This is why the various observers seem, for the most part, badly to welcome the news with as main argument, the NCAA within which the suit is always imposed on coaches. It is complicated to ask a coach of high school students to be classy, when at the same time the polo shirt with red dots is tolerated on the national air force.
NBA coaches will be allowed in 2021-22 to wear casual attire rather than suits during games for the second consecutive season, sources say. The practice started in the Disney World bubble during the league’s summer of 2020 restart.
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For many, the costume represents what the NBA wanted to establish in the early 2000s by erasing its image of “League of thugs” with fans. Recently, we had the chance to enjoy the very good documentary Malice at the Palace and to be able to hear different versions of the incidents that occurred on November 19, 2004 between Pistons and Pacers, at the Palace in Auburn Hills. If the coaches wore suits long before the new one dress code imposed by the NBA in 2005, to heal its reputation, this new modification nevertheless shows to what extent the Great League is becoming more and more tolerant with its actors. No one can know what the late David Stern would have decided if he was still in office, but Adam Silver is riding his time and has no trouble giving coaches more freedom. An observation which, even if the subject is completely secondary in NBA news, will make people talk for whom the outfit reflects certain values.
This news will not change your day? Ours neither, with the only difference that it remains important to process this kind of information. For many, the costume combines class and respect, two notions anchored in the fundamentals of the Great League. Even if it is almost certain that the majority of coaches will keep their evening outfits, how will be perceived the contrast between a very dapper Nick Nurse, and a Gregg Popovich who came to lose his sixty-second game of the season in pajamas?
