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The Heat defeated the Thunder in the NBA Finals this year, but there was another battle going on behind the stands that not enough people acknowledged: Dwyane Wade’s press conference outfits versus Russell Westbrook’s. Like Hansel vs Zoolander, Westbrook is the upstart; Wade the reigning champion. Wade owns more pairs of socks than some small countries, and I think he can be safely credited with turning David Stern’s draconian fashion laws into one of the best things about the NBA. Every game it seems is now a contest to get photographed by The Sartorialist, and Westbrook is quickly establishing himself as Wade’s usurper. He made the black-frame-eyeglasses-that-don’t-actually-have-glass-in-them the must-have item in the 2011-12 season. Then, in a bold attempt to one-up Westbrook, Wade came out during the Playoffs in custom-made “Dwayne Wayne” flip-up shades, a reference which Westbrook, 23, might not have even gotten. Wade’s look is all, “Hey I’m only teaching in Rome for a semester and then my sabbatical’s over and it’s back to running accounts at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce,” while Westbrook’s look says, “I used to be in a little band called Vampire Weekend so why can’t I bring my skateboard into the All-England Club?” It’s safe to say if Wade hadn’t been injured this summer, Team USA would’ve needed an extra plane for the luggage."
P. Scott Cunningham, “The Dreamy Team: U.S.A. Basketball in 2012”, Los Angeles Review of Books (this made me laugh out loud - spot-on.)(Source: lareviewofbooks.org)
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