What's The World Coming To When Even Basketball Players Must Dress Like Grownups...

AOL News - Pacers' Jackson Says New NBA Dress Code Attacks Blacks

Indiana guard Stephen Jackson believes the NBA's new ban on bling-bling is racially motivated, but says he will abide by the rules.
Jackson first made his displeasure with the new rule a public matter on Tuesday. He said he hasn't heard from the league office, and doesn't expect to.
"I still have freedom of speech, don't I?" he said. "I didn't disrespect anybody by saying it, so I can say what I want to say."

Sorry you inarticulate misanthrope, but ANY business can and does institute a dress code for it's employees, and freedom of speech has nothing to do with it. Now just imagine that there was no NBA and you were working in a business more suitable for your degree of intelligence, attired in a silly cap and vest and all you had to worry about was asking "and would you like fries with that?"
Seriously now, it's been a laugh riot watching these silly kids prance around looking like rejects from a Broadway production of Peter Pan as told by Snoop Dog, and I can see why the NBA would like to have the representatives of their sport at least TRY to look like men and not gay pirates gone amok.
And just so's you don't think only clueless AOL featured this monumental affront to the manliness of all NBA'ers, here's an even more clueless version from the NY Daily Snooze:

A dressing down would suit Stern

by Filip Bondy:

"This week, David Stern banned Mahatma Gandhi (no sports coat), Gen. George Patton (too many silver medals) and Jesus Christ (sandals) from ever playing in his league. They wouldn't meet the dress code, couldn't watch from the bench if they suffered a season-ending injury."FULL STORY

Gandhi and Joshua ben Josef dressed as men of their times, and George Patton dressed befitting his rank and occupation, but writing from some alternate universe where it is okay to show up at the office wearing gladatorial armor, because after all, at one point in time men wore THOSE clothings too, Filip (don't call me Phil) Bondy thinks that it is NOT okay for men of THIS day to dress accordingly. If either Gandhi or Joshua had greeted the day in bling-bling they'd most likely have been stoned, but all Commissioner Stern did was to accommodate the paying public as well as the Corporate sponsors who have long since tired of seeing these unintelligible buffons parading about in decidedly inappropriate clothing.