Online Casino Bodog.com Plans to Promote NBA Dress Code Violation
25 October 2005

Bodog.com, a popular online casino that loves to make the headlines, has recently offered to cover the fines player Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers’ may receive due to violating the NBA’s dress code for this season. Furthermore, Bodog intends to provide similar offers to the rest of the players in the NBA.

New rules have been made within the NBA regarding player dress code. The new regulations that have been made this season indicate that professional basketball players within the league are expected to dress in business-casual wear whenever they participate in activities related to the league or their team. Therefore, whenever players arrive or leave games they must follows this dress code, as well as when they are in interviews, or making a promotional appearance. Any player who is found not following the dress code is subject to a fine for this violation.

Bodog understands the frustration this new rule has caused many of the players, and that is why they will make the effort to pay the fines of all players who accept their offer in a unique way. In the case of Iverson, the CEO of Bodog, Calvin Ayre, has stated that even if Iverson pays his own fines, Bodog will reimburse any of the fines by matching the amount and donating it to Iverson’s Crossover Foundation. Iverson’s charity has been set up to support underprivileged inner city youth.

Ayre recently commented that he realizes the frustration that many of the pro basketball players feel from being forced to conform to the NBA’s sudden new dress code. And since Iverson and a number of other NBA players have implied that they will not conform to the new dress code, Bodog is offering them their support by reimbursing any fines they receive, and matching these payments with a donation to the charity choice of each player.