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Steven Adams: Next time to wear a suit is ‘at my funeral’

Chris Paul gifted his teammates custom-tailored Frere suits that they wore for ‘Suit Night’ ahead of their game Wednesday vs. the Grizzlies.

It takes a lot to get Steven Adams into a suit.

But Chris Paul gifting his Thunder teammates with custom-tailored Frere suits is a special occasion.

As part of a coordinated team plan to wear the new suits ahead of Oklahoma City’s game on Wednesday night, Adams donned the new threads, pairing his navy three-piece suit with a cobalt tie, crisp white button-down, and chestnut-colored loafers. He pulled the look together with a herringbone cap.

While his teammates’ game day fashion choices leave the player’s walk-in looking more like a catwalk, Adams is usually seen in sweats and sandals. His preferred choice of headwear, a fuzzy camo-print hunter’s hat with earflaps.

Adams looked dapper, there’s no doubt about it. But had it not been the entire team donning the new duds, Adams told Royce Young of ESPN he wouldn’t have worn the suit.

“He (Chris Paul) was like, ‘Wear it to the game, it’s a team thing,'” Adams said. “I was like, ‘Ah (expletive), I have to wear it.’ I was just gonna hang it up.”

But when Paul calls and says, “wear the suit”, you wear the suit.

The last time that Adams can remember wearing a suit was to Russell Westbrook’s Oklahoma Hall of Fame event… in 2016.

“I didn’t realize how much time it takes to put on all that (expletive),” he said. “It’s a lot longer than I take normally. I didn’t account for it. I was just like, ‘Eh, (expletive) this, mate.'”

“A lot of buttons, a lot of weird little things,” he said. “It’s a three-piece suit, which means more buttons. … But it’s all pre-made Italian stuff.”

In fact, he told Maddie Lee of The Oklahoman, that he needed help putting together the finished look.

“I didn’t even know what I looked like, mate,” Adams said. “I didn’t look in the mirror, had to get the valet dudes to kind of clean me up a bit. My collar was off and everything.”

Just because he showed out for “Suit Night”, don’t expect the look to become a staple in Adams’ wardrobe. When asked when the next time he’ll show up in a suit would be, in typical fashion, Adams answered, “my funeral, mate”.

Chris Paul bought custom tailored suits for Thunder teammates

Oklahoma City showed up to Chesapeake Energy Arena on Wednesday in custom-tailored suits bought for them by Chris Paul.

Chris Paul is no stranger to style.

He’s got his own flair both on and off the court, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed this season. Earlier this year, Paul topped The Athletic’s NBA Style Power Rankings.

But Paul wanted to make sure that his teammates got in on the game day drip, gifting them all custom suits that they wore to Oklahoma City’s game against the Grizzlies on Wednesday night.

According to The Oklahoman, Paul came up with the idea over the summer. He had a tailors come to take the initial measurements, then final adjustments and the suits arrived on Wednesday morning.

Paul said the idea came from him remembering what it was like to be young and not having much.

“I remember as a young guy, you don’t necessarily have different things or whatnot,” Paul said. “And it was just a gift. A gift to guys. Baze (rookie Darius Bazley) said this is the first suit he ever had, so to see him, it’s cool. And the cool part about it is not even what it is. It’s that we did it together.”

An incredibly generous gesture by Paul made even more special by the fact that the players got to do this together.

“I thought it was a cool team bonding experience,” Muscala told The Oklahoman. “… The best part was seeing everybody walk in because you’re not used to seeing a lot of guys wear suits.”

There’s no doubt that everyone looked fresh in their suits.

Hamidou Diallo, in a light gray windowpane plaid Frere suit he paired with a charcoal gray turtleneck and Alexander McQueen white sneakers said he “felt like a million dollars”.

 

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But maybe no one stood out as much as Steven Adams, who is known for his eccentric taste in pre-game fashion.

In a video posted to the Thunder’s Instagram, Dennis Schroder is heard yelling, “oh that’s clean boy” as Adams enters the locker room.

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Everyone needs a hype man like Schroder and a friend like Chris Paul.