It's funny: basketball shirts have gone super-tight (particularly in college), and NBA players in droves are showing up at fashion shows and wearing ridiculously metrosexual outfits all over the place... but the shorts are still super baggy, as they have been since the '90s. You'd think by now SOMEbody would've bucked the trend and gone back to shorty-shorts. Rodman's the only one who came remotely close in my memory (apart from John Stockton, who just never changed from what the shorts were like for him as a rookie - but then he never changed anything, including his haircut). So - who's the player with the shortest shorts? Who's ready to go back to the glory days of skimpy ball-huggers?
I remember a couple of years ago the Lakers had a "throwback" night and came out in short-shorts... but then felt so unmanned they all changed at half-time. Wusses.
It does crack me up because it is such a fashion issue. Look at track athletes and long distance racers. Very short shorts or tights. Because they are more efficient. The long shorts are just more material to lug around, keep you from cooling and absorb sweat. I cannot see them going to back to short shorts, but could see at some point them going for the fitness shorts/tights look. It would make a lot more sense than the tight sleeved shirts.
Those short shorts won't be back. I'd much prefer a happy medium than the giant clown shorts they sell now. Same for swim trunks. I'm not advocating for speedos (although I do look fabulous), just something that fits and doesn't weigh a ton when full of water.
I will still never understand how there wasn't many if any malfunctions with short shorts back in the day. For fucks sake I can't wear boxers without something dangling out.
i remember when the lakers wore theirs for a half, all of them have those compression shorts underneath now, so those were sticking out and it looked rediculous
Wow. This generation doesn't know about jock straps. Do you guys know about salt pills? In the sexual revolution of the 60s-70s, the thing was, be free. At the very minimum, have a moustache. Then in came Reagan, the tough guys from Mexico/the ghetto were annointed U.S. Style Captains, and the leading movie actors were no longer chosen for their looks.
