In the league, 110 numbers can be used, from 0 to 99, and allow you to add 0 in front of single digits. But there is one that is ‘forbidden’.
In the NBA you can choose bibs between numbers ranging from 0 to 99, plus a 0 in front of those with a digit.. There are no banned numbers though when Dennis Rodman picked 69, the NBA commissioner stopped him. Worm should use 70.
In the NBA there are 110 possible numbers to choose from and only one is unused.. Beyond those who retire to certain franchises in honor of the top players of their time through teams, players have the power to choose what they want.
It’s official there is no kind of prohibition on number 69, but never used. When David Stern, acting NBA commissioner in 1999at that time Rodman signed on Dallas Mavericks (It would be his last team in the NBA), he knew he would use that number, as long as he just stopped. The reason for the rejection was never officially known, believed to be due to the sexual connotation of the number.
The truth of the story is sometimes doubted and Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericksshowed that he still had some jerseys in his office that the franchise made with 69 for Dennis Rodman.
It’s true that the number has connotations that refer to a particular sexual pose, but it’s not prohibited in the NFL, or in the NHL, or in MLB, or any other sport. Because it’s just a number.

While the NBA is a leading league in many struggles with social and gender diversity, there are some taboos it can’t unlock about sexual identity. Rodman himself declared and 2019 in the medium Business Insider that between 10 and 20% of NBA players are gay and don’t have the guts to say. Single Jason Collins openly declared homosexual Sports Illustrated on April 29, 2013. When he signed his contract with Brooklyn Netsin 2014, he chose the number 98 as a tribute to the year of the murder of young gay Matthew Shepard; and this is the best -selling jersey in the NBA online store.

Jason Collins wears the number 98 playing for the Brooklyn Nets (Photo: Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
Source: Tycsports

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