Tyson Chandler and Mariska Hargitay star in "Fashion Victims Unit" (Gilbert Carrasquillo/ Getty).

NBA fashion gets more out there with every passing year, whether it be Russell Westbrook bold printed shirts or the Miami Heat's embrace of pastel-color pants. The days of 17-button suits are over, at least among everyone who doesn't have a job analyzing games on NBA TV. The fashionista movement has gone so far that now players even argue about who started certain trends.

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Yet there are still many unexplored territories of NBA fashion. The way things are going, though, it seems likely that we'll reach them eventually. For proof, just know that New York Knicks center and Defensive Player of the Year Tyson Chandler owns and wears several capes. From Women's Wear Daily, as related by Jian DeLeon at Complex (via TBJ):

Kobe Bryant and Drew Brees laugh at Pau Gasol's horse fixation (Chris Graythen/ Getty).

In late April, we brought you a peculiar story in which Los Angeles Lakers teammates Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol got into a bidding war over a horse at a charity auction. Kobe won the auction with a bid of $8,000, but he then extended a stake in the horse, a four-year-old gelding named Siempre Mio, to Gasol. It was a random story, but a nice one in that two, star teammates found a way to bond off the court.

On Sunday, Siempre Mio ran at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, losing by a nose after being closed upon by the amazingly named Valkyrie Missile. However, due to the vagaries of horse ownership, Siempre Mio changed hands from two major sports stars to another when the race was over. The Associated Press explains:

Very long ago, in April, the NBA world was turned upside-down by the unfortunate incident in which Los Angeles Lakers forward Metta World Peace elbowed Oklahoma City Thunder guard and Sixth Man of the Year James Harden in the head. MWP was suspended for seven games, including the first six games of the Lakers' seven-game first-round series against the Denver Nuggets. In the next round, they faced the Thunder, though World Peace and Harden only engaged in comparatively minor physical battles. After OKC dispatched L.A. in five games, the story seemed finished.

Yet, during the Thunder's 91-85 loss to the Miami Heat in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, World Peace had some choice words for Harden. With the Thunder down three points at 12 seconds on the shot clock and 16 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Harden was called for a blocking foul for getting in LeBron James' way roughly 30 feet from the basket. World Peace immediately tweeted "No brain All beard," referring to both the dumb play and Harden's famous facial hair. Watch the foul and check out the tweet in the video above, courtesy of our friends at the Yahoo! Sports Minute.

Dwyane Wade asks for a helping hand (Ronald Martinez/ Getty).

When the Miami Heat superfriends joined powers in the summer of 2010 and created an otherworldly behemoth of a basketball team (or so we thought), the general assumption was that LeBron James and Dwyane Wade would be co-leaders. As one of the five best players in the league, Wade had earned the right to be the alpha for the team he'd played for the whole career. Much of the criticism levied at LeBron to begin with, apart from that he picked his team in one of the worst ways possible, was that he didn't want to be the clear-cut best player on his team. With Wade, there was to be some question as to who would take on the lead role.

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For one season, the Heat struggled to answer that issue, as LeBron and Wade deferred to each other too often and had difficulty working together at times. Now, however, the hierarchy is fairly set. LeBron, who's playing about as well an all-around game as a human being could possibly play in the NBA Finals, is quite clearly the organizer of the Heat, giving each other player in the lineup a role and structure. But in that structure, it's a little unclear how to process the ideal use of Dwyane Wade.

The Miami Heat's 100-96 win in Game 2 of the NBA Finals was full of drama, athleticism and skill, making for arguably the greatest game of the 2012 NBA Playoffs so far. The result hinged on many plays, from terrific post-ups by LeBron James to sweet jumpers from Kevin Durant. And yet, in the aftermath, Thunder supporters will likely point to one key missed call way back in the middle of the second quarter that had a big impact on the final result.

With 5:56 left in the half, Heat forward Chris Bosh took a pass from Dwyane Wade in the paint and went up for a lay-up. He was blocked by Durant at the rim, after which Serge Ibaka — the NBA leader in blocks this season with 3.65 per game — blocked the ball again as it glanced off the rim on its way down. Referees called a goaltending violation on Ibaka, which spurred some complaints from Durant and Russell Westbrook. The basket gave the Heat a 39-29 lead, but the margin in the final minute ended up being so close that a different call might have sent this game to overtime.

Kevin Durant backs down Dwyane Wade, who'd rather be in New York (Ronald Martinez/ Getty).

As we learned during last summer's lockout, there's a division in the NBA between big market and small market franchises. The former have a theoretical competitive advantage because their local TV deals give them the chance to pay the luxury tax without as much of a financial hit, while their proximity to corporations and advertisers makes them attractive to free agents. In this situation, the small-market teams have to rely on boring stuff like effective management to succeed. It's asymmetric warfare, in a way.

The upshot of this situation is that even the best players in small markets, like Oklahoma City Thunder grandmaster Kevin Durant, aren't always judged on the merits. In fact, Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade — who is pretty famous — thinks that Durant would be a bigger star if he didn't play in OKC. From Ben Golliver for Eye on Basketball:

As I noted in an earlier review, Wednesday night's "The Dream Team" documentary on NBA TV was pretty terrific, particularly for its behind-the-scenes glimpses at the team's intense practices and the ways in which the players became friends during their time together. For most of the players, it was also a chance to experience what it's like to be bona fide sensations, with fans overseas going absolutely nuts every time they'd show themselves in public.

However, one of the Dream Team stars went about his time in Barcelona mostly undisturbed. In the funniest moment from the documentary, John Stockton simply walked around the famous La Rambla street with no distractions. No one screamed his name, and even self-professed Dream Team superfans from America didn't recognize him. Stockton took his own video of his conversations, and it's all pretty shocking given the all-encompassing celebrity of the best basketball team ever assembled.

Stockton has a fairly nondescript look, all things

Christian Laettner's teammates all wonder why he's tired (Andrew D. Bernstein/ Getty).

Twenty years after it dominated the competition at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the Dream Team has only grown in stature. It is generally agreed upon as the greatest collection of basketball talent in history, and its performances were so great that the margins of victory look like misprints. But as the games themselves have faded into memory, the greatness of the Dream Team has become almost too much of a story and not enough of an experience. We can look at the players on that roster and know how good they were, or the effect they had on the international popularity of basketball, or the extent of their celebrity overseas. Yet what was the experience really like? And why, exactly, does the team still capture our attention and imagination so long after its achievement?

If for no other reason than that it communicates the answers to those questions, NBA TV's 90-minute documentary "The Dream Team" (which premiered Wednesday night and will be rebroadcast several times this weekend) is essential viewing. Though it takes the form a standard-issue hagiographic production, the doc features highlights, rare practice footage, and behind-the-scenes clips of players hanging out that both recall the experience and provide a new look at it. Not every moment is stellar, but there are so many joyous moments that it's all too much fun to complain. In turn, we can remember and understand just why anyone cares so many years later.