Check out the gams on Kobe!

Do you remember the ad Joe Namath did wearing pantyhose? Well...

Can any one of you tell me what the f&^% is up with the tights Kobe is wearing this year? And what's with the wacky acid trip kicks he's sporting? Has he lost his f*%^&ing mind? He looks like one of those guys you see out on Melrose or at the Promenade near Santa Monica pier. His shoes look like roller blades and those tights are like crazy man pants. He should be selling oranges and shouting incoherently at people passing by......

Basically, he's the NBA's fashion equivalent of "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski.

Mr. East

I'm not sure what Mr. East's fucking problem with Kobe's sassy leggings is, but I suspect it has to do with a traumatic experience he had with an 8th grade field trip to see Cats.

Growing up in the 70's and 80's, if some dude was sporting tights like this you'd basically figure him to be slightly retarded or running late to ballet. At some point in the early 90's, around the time dudes started to shave all their body hair and put mousse in their hair on a regular basis, athletes started rocking tights now and then as a sign of sports excellence. But this was mainly runners and fringe sports. Soon, though, as mainstream sports athletes started to adopt the workouts and styles of cutting edge sports, they embraced the tights. But basketball? That shit is fucked up.

Kobe is a bitch, we all agree on that, right? A psychologist could most likely easily diagnose his marriage at age 21 rather than playing the field as any man in his right mind would do in that situation, rape/assault/dirty fuck of a girl in Colorado, and now sporting tights as obvious sexuality issues as he struggles to be a "man." He wants so badly to be Jordan but just does not get it-- Kobe is an unlikable asshole.

How the hell one can ball in tights is beyond me. I suspect the real reasons why Kobe sports the spandex look are two-fold: 1) he played well in them once and players believe they will keep playing well if they adhere to sticking to the same routine; and 2) he wants to draw attention to himself and hopefully spark a new trend that he can claim he started. Uh, not gonna happen, Kobe.

I just wonder how the NBA dress code fines Kyle Korver tons of $$$ but lets Kobe wear tights? I guess that’s corporate bureaucracy for ya’.

Mr. West