The Rules of Deception: The Only NBA Bans You Didn't Know About

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From banning numbers to finding players thousands of dollars for their sneakers, these are the only NBA bands who didn't know. And first, we gotta talk about the pettiest NBA band yet. See, NBA fans make the game fun. They bring passion to the sport, cheer on the team, and trash talk their team's rival. But there are some NBA fans who have crossed the line with their trash talk, like the fan who talked trash to Carmelo Anthony. So, Mello booted in.

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34-78. Carmelo Anthony is getting into it with some fans here. They've been riding him for about four straight possessions, and now Mello has had enough.

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For the time, Pacers fans went in on Lebron. So, Lebron got him out.

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What is Lebron looking for? Somebody is just, we got a fan that's got a little unruly, and Lebron is pointing it out to the officials. Clearly, I wouldn't know what they said. They're on the other side of the court, but they're putting them out.

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Well, the league was so against out-of-control fans, they decided to try and prevent any further trash talk by handing out a warning card. Come on, dog, they're killing the fun. And they killed LaMelo's vibe, because everyone knows the NBA has banned wearing any other logos. But did you know they made LaMelo cover his brand's tattoo? See, LaMelo has an LF tattoo on his left ear that stands for LaFrance, which is not only his middle name, but also his own fashion brand. So the NBA made him hide it from everyone. At least he didn't have to remove it. But the league made LeBron remove part of his face. Because after LeBron broke his nose, he put on a black mask and went Batman mode.
Yeah, the King dropped 31 like it was nothing. But after this game, the NBA banned LeBron's black mask. It wouldn't give a good reason as to why. So LeBron put on a clear mask and continued to dominate anyways. But the league had enough for Ja Moran, because the NBA banned his celebrations. See, after his gun incident, Ja Moran found a way to hit his defenders with strays. I'm talking about his gun celebrations. Now, even though it's funny to most fans, the league was not having it. So they decided to warn Ja and find him if he ever did the celebration again. Well, the same day, Ja shot that warning down, did the celebration again and got fined $75,000. And just a couple of days later, Ja figured out a new celebration so he could disrespect the entire league with the Grenade Celebration.
But what if I told you there were certain jerseys banned? Because the NBA made sure Dennis Rodman never wore his number again. See, Rodman's known as the number one freak show in the NBA history, and he took it to the next level when he chose to wear the number 69 But as soon as David Stern saw this, he immediately forbid the number from every single team. But we gotta go over to Chicago for this next ban, because the Bulls decided to get rid of headbands forever. See, in the mid 2000s, Eddie Robinson was skipping training camp, missing calls from the front office, just straight up ghosted the Bulls. So when John Paxton took over, he knew he'd have to restore the image of the team. And apparently, the problem was headbands. So not only did he decide that Eddie would never wear a headband again, but also the entire franchise. And these bands are about to get way pettier, because the league told Dwayne Wade he wasn't allowed to wear band-aids. Because after getting hurt, D-Wade once played with a band-aid on his face, like you cut your knee in fourth grade. But the league decided they couldn't have that and told him to take it off for good.

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Dwayne Wade put on a show Saturday. He beat the Knicks with 24 fourth-quarter points. But you'll notice he was playing without his band-Wade, which the NBA banned before the game as a method of self-expression.

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And apparently, certain hairstyles aren't cool either. Because remember how I said logos were banned in the NBA? That includes logos in your haircut. See, in 2013, Amon Schumper did something you're not supposed to do. He had his barber shave the Adidas logo in his hair. But the league wasn't about to play that because they whipped out the rule book and went right to item five of Sex and Age, a rule that states the only article bearing the commercial logo, which can be worn by a player, is their shoes. So Amon not only apologized, but he went back to the barber and got his three stripes stripped for good. But sometimes NBA players get too cocky and do some outrageous stuff, like the famous Big Balls dance, which the NBA officially outlawed. See, after Sam Cassell hit a clutch shot, he did this.