The 2003 NBA Draft Featured Some Outrageous Style Choices

Man, for the life of me I don’t recall suits being that damn big in 2003. I swear they had enough fabric in that photo to clothe the population of Zimbabwe. There were extra buttons and too many pant cuffs scraping the floor. It has been said that Steve Harvey deserves blame for this style. That it was Michael Jordan’s fault. That maybe it was P. Diddy and Sean John, the origins are murky. Check out Kirk Hinrich (front, third from left). Dude looks like a kid on his way to his First Communion. Jarvis Hayes (front, second from left) looks as if he might have thought, “Screw it, I’m gonna button all of these, I don’t know where to start or end.” Carmelo Anthony (front, far left) inexplicably only buttoned the top button of his jacket. But the collars had to be the worst part. Wait. Maybe it’s the length of those pants. Good God man. The mind reels.

PS- This was a hell of a draft class, except for #2 pick Darko Milicic there in the back middle. He sucked. Otherwise LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade turned out to be pretty good. Steal of the draft? Maryland’s Steve Blake at #38.