The headband rule came into effect when people in the early 2000s started to wear them as a fashion statement. People like Iverson made them popular and Jerry was against anything that could be deemed as a distraction.
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They all wore the same color shoes. Different brands but all wore white due to the team unity thing. I remember the first time thy wore black shoes. Deron Williams initiated it and Sloan was fine with it as long as everyone wore black shoes, which they did.
The "headband rule" was a thing waaaaaaay before the early 2000's.
Fine.
I'm not sure that's true. There were only a couple of players in the league that actually wore a headband before the early 2000s. Cliff Robinson is the only player that comes to mind but I'm sure there were others. Out of 450ish players in the league and only a couple wore a headband would suggest that players didnt want to wear them, so no need for a rule
Carr had a medical reason to wear glasses. "Carr suffered a lacerated eyeball that prevented his retina from adjusting to light normally and resulted in headaches. As a result, Carr began wearing his trademark sunglasses..." Pretty hard to tell a guy with a bum eye that he can't wear glasses because nobody else does.
Because people ****ing sweat. Which is the point of this entire thing.
Actually, players were wearing headbands as early as the 60’s-70’s then players for the most part stopped wearing them in the 90’s. Sloan outlawed them the moment he took the coaching job.
Sloan outlawed them when people weren't wanting to wear them? That doesn't make sense
Sloan took over in the 80’s and he didn’t outright ban them. It was either everyone wears them or no one wears them as a togetherness thing.
There were a couple of scrubs back in the day that wore them. Patrick Ewing, Bill Walton & Wilt Chamberlain all come to mind.
Oh of course they did, I was more or less talking about the 90s when it was only worn by a couple of people. Dr j wore one and a lot of people did in the 70s and early 80s
