Gaines: We swore we all looked good, man, I tell you!īeavers: They look like preachers and deacons. Sami Jenks, stylist at Elevee styled James and Anthony for 2003 draft Rachel Johnson, stylist for James and Bosh Waraire Boswell, designer to James, Wade, Anthony and Bosh How did we get here? To find out, all you have to do is turn back the clock-and shield your eyes. Today, James totes a $41,000 alligator bag Anthony wears fur hats to postgame pressers Wade designs his own ties and Bosh owns upward of 55 pairs of dress shoes. But what's clear is that the suits were bad and, ironically, that we can point to the 2003 draft as a jumping-off point for NBA fashion as we now know it. There are a number of interconnected theories and stories that help explain what happened. (Programming note: Check out ‘The 2000s’ on CNNTV and CNNgo Sundays at 9p ET/PT starting July 8.) That Jarvis Hayes might have thought, 'F-k it, I'm gonna button all of these, I don't know where to start or end.' That the pants were the worst part-that, no, it's got to be the collars-that, no, no, just look at those shoes. It is said that, on draft night in '03, Kirk Hinrich resembled a kid on his way to his First Communion.
