
Tuning in to TNT on Thursday night is like coming home after a long, rough day and having the hubby draw you a hot bath and a Scotch on the rocks -- you just know in the end that someone is looking out for you.
And so it is with Sir Charles, Kenny "The Jet" Smith and Ernie Johnson. (At this point in the 2008-09 season, having exchanged vows w/the NBA in '07-08, TCL refuses to even acknowledge WTF MarC Fein is....)
So, we were all the more thrilled to see KTJ decked out in more than his usual respectable finery recently, to mull the fate of one-man leper colony Stephon Marbury. (That Starbury-Steve-n-Barry's head tat is really moving the $25 sneakers now, isn't it?)
Let's just say right here, right now that here at TCL we are rather brazon Kevin Garnett fans -- OY! his skillz! his 'tude! his fashion sense! (Oh, puh-leeze with that LeBron pre-game, wannabe chalk-to-the-heavens thing -- who can forget 2003-04?) And KG's nerdy and sweet sweater vests over baggy white oxfords set a trend that was quickly adopted across a league desperate to distance itself from a Thug Life archetype it had once shamelessly promoted.
Anyway, what with fashion stuck in a rut b/c of the economy, one must appreciate Kenny The Jet's little yellow tie-on-shades-of-gray tweaks to KG's basic creed -- the sleek sports coat over his vest and dress shirt, with the rumpled kerchief adding that little extra touch of WTF cares?
Given that the economy has put middle America in a more conservative mood, such that low-slung jeans have given way to prim, high-waist Mom dungarees and decolletage -- Alas! -- has become but a breathtaking decadence, one must celebrate what small sartorial advances we come by these days.





