Basketball Shorts or Pants?

Watching basketball, both NBA and College, is kind of painful these days. It used to be fun, but now with all the thugs the NBA is pretty much a waste of space. College is still fun to watch, but what is with the shorts!?

Don't get me wrong, I don't like the John Stockton shorts, but they may as well be playing in pants now! I'm not a fashion expert or anything, but it seems like it would be advantageous to play in shorts that the actual short ends at the knees. Instead it seems like the inseam ends at the knees. Dribbling through the legs would be much easier, although it's second nature to most of these guys anyway, but being an engineer (albeit out of work) they don't seem efficient.

I remember when this fad started with the famous Fab 5 at the UofM (see Chris Webber's infamous timeout call). The only legacy these goons left behind was to wear Hammer pants while playing. I did see a highlight of Howard dunking and then parachuting back to the floor one time. That may have been a dramatization, but I still believe it happened.

When sports seem to be trimming down on pads and making uniforms a little more classy, see hockey's recent Reebok uniforms, basketball "Hammer Shorts" seem to be getting longer and longer. Pretty soon we're going to be seeing the players yelling, "Uh oh, Uh oh, Uh oh....stop! I'm lost in these stupid things!"

Soccer seems to be doing the best at keeping the legs free to move, although this is one of the only sports where it seems like the athletes truly know how to use their legs. Seeing morons walking around in these awful things on the street I just want to ask, can't we negotiate a happy medium between John Stockton and the Memphis Tigers?!