With the Cavaliers on a 6-game win streak following their beating-up of the Bobcats last night, the fact just may be that LeBron’s tights are here to stay. Now that everyone in the mainstream is talking about them, including the PTI guys yesterday (Kornheiser is indifferent, Wilbon says “no”), it’s time to retire our long coverage of the issue.
First though, a final word on them, in rebuttle to this comment posted yesterday.
There is not anything wrong and who cares anyway. They have some support for your legs and also provides thermal layering to prevent cramping in your calves. I happen to wear them while exercising, rollerblading or just with shorts. There are Nike, Reebok, Activskin, Zyflex, E.G. Smith, Harmonie, and other brands that are available. Try a search. you will see it is acatually the in thing. Also, Surfers , snowboarders, etc wear em too.
First of all, Rik0915ca (if that is indeed your real name), there is something wrong with it, and since you’ve covered pretty much all of the pro-tights angles here, let’s break it down.
See us break it down after the jump.
1) As a Cavaliers official told us in that very post to our virtual face, they do NOT provide support of any kind. They’re purely for warmth and NBA arenas just aren’t that cold, sorry. It’s not like tights are some revolutionary innovation that just came out this year, either.
2) Congratulations on wearing them for a variety of activities, including “just with shorts.” You are not (we assume) on national TV all the time, however.
3) Harmonie is a Harry Potter character, and we don’t care if every company on Earth makes them – how is that relevent?
4) “Try a search”? Dude, we are the tights fuckin’ masters. When people need – when they crave so bad they get the shakes – tights coverage, where do you think they come to? We ARE tights.
5) Surfers wear wetsuits. Snowboarders wear an adaptation of a wetsuit. They are not wearing tights, and even if they were, those sports take place in water and snow, where extreme temperatures could be an issue. Look – skydivers wear parachutes. Does that mean NBA players should?
That’s it – we’ve said all we can…and we’re tired of it. ESPN and everyone else can run with the tights now. Let it always be known – the tights era was started right here, and we’ve said all we can to let you know they look freaking ridiculous. We will always think they look ridiculous – this isn’t Hammer Pants or flannel shirts or heroin any of the other trains we hopped on in middle school.
That said, if Nike or Reebok or Dumbledore or any other company reads this and wants to send us some, we’ll try them out on the court, and then come back and tell you how gay it made us feel.
Goodbye, tights. We’re done. Read everything we’ve ever said about this horrible development in NBA fashion.
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It’s funny how you have been talking about this since the beginning of the year and now everyone else is making some big deal about it like it is a new story. And it is also funny how KOBE was the tights originator yet LEBRON is getting all of the pub for em. Go figure!
I heard Stackhouse wore ‘em first, and then your red box car
thank you for defending common sense-if I go to the park to play ball this summer and all the kids are wearing frickin’ tights I am going to have an aneurism…
Brandon please don’t bring up the red box car. I loved that thing. The design was genius in its simplicity.
I’m going to start the next trend before it gets to the NBA. Look for me ballin’ in a push-up bra homies, yaaaa heeeeeeaaaaaaarrrrddd.
LeBron said pre-game (or was reported as saying) the other day that while the kids might be rushing out to buy their Harry Potter commemorative tights this week because he’s been wearing them, that they were only temporary on him until the knee feels better. Considering he seemed to knock it (the knee) against the Suns on Sunday, you might want to revive YAYTights coverage for another week or two.
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