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Hard hat

Obviously basketball players don't come to play with helmets, unlike American football or ice hockey players. They don't even play with the soft baseball hats. So why does Bowen talk about coming to play with their hard hats on?

You see, people who work wearing hard hats are usually doing blue-collar jobs, or simple tough work. Bowen was just making a battle cry calling on the Spurs to be prepared to work hard.

It was natural for Bowen to talk about "hard hats" because his primary job is playing defense - staying in front of an offensive player, standing your ground and not giving an inch. And that is considered blue-collar work, or dirty work in hoopspeak, in contrast to the more glamorous jobs of, say, scoring.

Also appropriate is the fact that the Spurs are from Texas, traditionally known for cowboys who wore their own brand of hard-rimmed hats. The cowboys are known as tough guys, brave, relentless and undaunted by difficulties and hardship, all qualities shared by Bowen and the Spurs.

So therefore, when Bowen talks about the hard cap, he was speaking figuratively. It means it's time to get to work and that he's ready to face whatever King James has to throw at him.