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What are those full length arm sleeves that dudes like Iverson and Melo wear for?

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always wondered this.

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/marty_burns/12/19/iverson.react/p1_iverson2.jpg

― be on the treadmill - uh! - like OK GO (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 20 March 2009 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

it's something about keeping the elbow or something warm i think? it definitely has to do with warding off injury, i believe

remember when this was a thing

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060210/060210_tights_james_vmed_2p.widec.jpg
http://sports.espn.go.com/media/nba/2006/0322/photo/g_wade_195.jpg

― the name's ban. suggest ban (J0rdan S.), Friday, 20 March 2009 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

fuckin ballerinas

― The Prices are .......... VERY AFFORDABLE!!! (omar little), Friday, 20 March 2009 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

i thought the leggings thing was kinda dope tbh

― the name's ban. suggest ban (J0rdan S.), Friday, 20 March 2009 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

Ray Allen does not wear the green elastic sleeve on his left elbow for fashion purposes, or to keep his elbow warm. Instead, it’s a UConn thing. He started wearing the sleeve because Detroit’s Richard Hamilton, his fellow alumnus and a player known for having some of the longest fingernails in the NBA, likes to swipe at the elbow. Indeed, whenever they play, Allen and Hamilton look like two brothers going a little too hard at each other out in the driveway. “Honestly, I don’t know why it gets that way, really,” Allen said before the Celtics’ 105-95 loss to Detroit yesterday. “But he slaps at me harder. He’s the reason I started wearing this sleeve. (The sleeve) has also become good luck ...

― eman, Friday, 20 March 2009 18:11 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

i always thought the leggings were dope too btw

― farting irl (cankles), Friday, 4 December 2009 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

Stern totally dbaggy for banning them.

― Leee, Friday, 4 December 2009 23:15 (sixteen years ago)

the rumor with AI's armband was that it was covering up some potentially offensive tattoo. Kinda like how Montel Vontavious Porter has to wear a shirt when he wrestles to cover up his big Malcolm X tattoo.

― methanietanner, Friday, 4 December 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

Stern totally dbaggy for banning them.

― Leee, Friday, December 4, 2009 6:15 PM

― luol deng (am0n), Saturday, 5 December 2009 01:00 (sixteen years ago)

Maybe, but he is clearly the coolest of all commishes.

― real bears playing hockey (polyphonic), Saturday, 5 December 2009 01:15 (sixteen years ago)

I thought these sleeves protected against elbow and knee tendinitis

― 囧 (dyao), Saturday, 5 December 2009 07:49 (sixteen years ago)

Leggings with the wide shorts was very http://www.tomecek.com/jay/ManOutfit.gif

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 5 December 2009 14:11 (sixteen years ago)


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