Michael Jordon was the reason that baggy basketball shorts came into fashion. Jordon had a superstition that his University Of North Carolina basketball shorts were lucky and always wore the same pair of shorts. When he went pro the league said he had to wear his team’s shorts. He got around this by wearing a baggy pair of team shorts with his college shorts under his team shorts and since he was the most popular player of his day everyone wanted to be like him and started wearing baggy shorts.
Michael Jordon was the reason that baggy basketball shorts came into fashion. Jordon had a superstition that his University Of North Carolina basketball shorts were lucky and always wore the same pair of shorts. When he went pro the league said he had to wear his team’s shorts. He got around this by wearing a baggy pair of team shorts with his college shorts under his team shorts and since he was the most popular player of his day everyone wanted to be like him and started wearing baggy shorts.