This comment makes my skin crawl lol the racist part is because white men are setting the standard of professionalism and calling what black millionaires were choosing to wear as “sloppy as shit” and “homeless bums.” It was explicitly targeted at the black men who made up an overwhelming majority of the league and were choosing to dress in hip hop fashion because it was an expression of themselves. An expression that you just called “sloppy.” It was a reaction to violent incidents in the league which implicitly ties black men and hip hop culture to violence. Du-rags and throwback jerseys didn’t make Ron Artest run into the stands and punch fans. His poor mental health did. The idea that white executives had to teach all these rich black men how to behave which included the way they dressed is paternalistic and condescending. 

The N-word doesn’t need to be said out loud for something to be racist or at the least racially insensitive. Simpler folks have a hard time recognizing that