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Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Updated: October 31, 4:36 PM ET
What's hot, not for the week

By Dan Shanoff
Page 2 columnist

The weather is getting a little more brisk, but the retro-fashion fad with NBA gear remains scorching. It's a little tougher to troll around town simply in a jersey (if so, we hope you're wearing it backward, as we noted midsummer). But there have been increasing sightings of puffy satin jackets, embroidered with classic NBA team names and logos.

We personally favor the nifty blue "Baltimore Bullets" version, though classic gear-maker Mitchell & Ness put endorser/rap star Fabolous in a nice-looking Celtics jacket in their most recent ad campaign. Find your own look, but just remember not to forget your scarf. (Hmm: When will NFL teams appropriate the long-time European soccer-fashion merchandising juggernaut that is team-specific scarves? Must be a Europe thing.)

For more on what's hot and what's not this week, check out this week's list below:

What's Hot, What's Not this week
Category	Hot	Not
NBA fashion trend	Wear road uniforms at home	Ultra-baggy shorts
Super trio	Tracy McGrady-Grant Hill-Pat Burke	Kobe-Shaq-Devean George
Richard Williams	Swingin' single	Wacky tennis father
Augusta landscape	Burk wins	Hootie loses
Question about Maravich	Uh, did he play for the Hornets?	Does he deserve to have his N.O. number retired?
Manager hirings	No-names	Big names
NFL's biggest problem	Homophobia	Violence of hits
QB	Jeff "Nine Lives" George	Any Hasselbeck
Jackson	Willie	Phil
Heisman-worthy running back	Chris Brown (Colorado)	Maurice Clarett (Ohio State)
Big Ten's biggest problem	Blown calls	BCS rankings
Punchline headline	"Knicks give Chaney extension"	"Knicks looking for LeBron"
MLB free agent	Jeff Kent	Shawon Dunston
Bandwagon	Extra-wide headbands in place of 'do-rags	Thunder Stix, Cheer Stix or any other object you can hit outfielders with
Weekend flick	"I Spy"	"The Santa Clause 2"
Notre Dame	Love 'em	Hate 'em
Hall of Fame shoo-in	Marcus Allen	Paul Tagliabue
T'Wolves' go-to guy	Troy Hudson	Kevin Garnett
Giants-as-champs	Yomiuri (Japan) sidewinder TD scamper	San Francisco
Needs-more-pub fantasy-league waiver steal	Gordon Giricek (Grizzlies)	Shammond Williams (Celtics)
Yankees trade bait	Jorge Posada	Mike Mussina
Early-season NBA postgame cliché	"We have to learn from this one."	"We'll take 'em one at a time."
NBA expansion	Six divisions	Quaint four-division structure
Herschel Walker	College Football Hall of Famer	Pro Football Hall of Famer

Dan Shanoff is a columnist for Page 2. His "What's Hot, What's Not" trend-spotting list appears Thursdays. Got inside scoop on an up-and-coming trend? Want to declare something passé? Send this glimpse of your hipness to hotnotlist@yahoo.com.