Austin Horn "Rise of the NBA Nerd"

Wesley Morris "Rise of the NBA Nerd"
January 16, 2013
Austin Horn

Maybe people in todays society enjoy dressing up and looking sharp. Especially when you think about professional athletes like NBA superstars. When they come out to a press conference they look like they going to have dinner with President Obama at the Whitehouse sometimes or they bring back the 1990's style. In this article Morris shows us how these superstars come out to a press conference in cardigans, shirts and ties, velvet sweaters, and even backpacks. When 15 years ago they came out with baggy shorts, hats on sideways, and Jay-Z tea shirts. 

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Believe Morris larger point is that fashion is a way of showing our races have changed over the years, using the NBA players as an example. When you think about how NBA stars have changed the way they dress, its changing the black people around the world are dressing. Now you don't see as many kids look like Allen Iverson in the above picture. Morris could be arguing that people these day dress the way they see people they look up to. If that is the case, everyone is starting to evolve the way they dress because they believe its cool now because the NBA players are doing it.

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The NBA stars are changing the way they look because they had to obviously, but I think they could also be changing there look to show people that dressing up isn't "nerdy". I don't mind seeing celebs dressed up because I enjoy dressing the same way. But overall I believe Morris uses the NBA superstars to show how todays societies looks at celebs. We look at everything they do, and want to be like them. Also think he shows how the fashion world is changing and wanting us as readers to under stand that.

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