'It's not just who was good,' says Mitchell Jackson, whose new book charts the evolution of NBA fashion. 'It's who was good and who was fly.'
, is “Magic Johnson fast-breaking in The Forum with his signature high dribble and legerdemaining defenders with a wide-eyed lookaway.” It’s Steph Curry sinking threes from preposterous lengths; it’s Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s signature skyhook.
JACKSON: Yeah. So one of my favorite quotes about style is Miles Davis, “You got to have style in everything you do.” I think that’s a particularly relevant quote in basketball. You don’t just make a layup; you finger-roll a layup. I remember when I was young, people started dunking without pulling the rim down. Shawn Kemp, I think, really started this.
JACKSON: Well, I think I had the most trouble with the early ones, and that’s because I had to do the most research. Something that was satisfying about this book was that I had to go into a sport that I had played half of my life, but I didn’t know… I couldn’t have told you when the NBA was founded. And I’d heard of [George] Mikan, but I didn’t know he was the first star.
JACKSON: I would say we can’t divorce this from our evolution in thinking about gender, right? And thank god we have had this discourse now, this political movement, this cultural movement. I also would say that we should thank hip hop. To have guys like ASAP Rocky and Kid Cudi and Kanye pushing against the boundaries of masculinity. So now we get a Jordan Clarkson painting his nails, or Westbrook wearing the Thom Browne kilt.
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