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trenchant uniform commentary

But those cherry blossom unis are so sweet.

They should keep the good ones is the thing

lol

76ers' Joel Embiid – the reigning NBA MVP – is nearing an endorsement deal with Skechers as the footwear company launches a basketball division, sources tell me and @MikeVorkunov.

Story at @TheAthletic on Skechers working on a new star pitchman: https://t.co/a7nXKCv82K

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 18, 2023

wonder what happened with Under Armor

sadly, big men just dont sell shoes.

Skechers has made decent running shoes. Can't imagine that their bball ones won't be an abomination though.

Lmao

"That sucks. That's garbage. Oh my god. What the hell was that?"

There was mixed reaction from Cavs season ticket holders as the team revealed their 2023-24 City Edition Jersey 😅

(via @evan_morgano)pic.twitter.com/V4RXicqB93

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) October 18, 2023

lol it is garbage

https://news.sportslogos.net/2023/10/18/every-nba-uniform-logo-change-for-2023-24-season/basketball/

Compiling all the new ‘forms.

looks like the celtics are using forest green again, unacceptable

wolves throwbackish ones are nice

yeah those will be cool

those Nets jerseys wtf

wow so many of those unis are unforgivable

omg the indy one lmaoooooooo

this year is like half doesnt even look like theyre trying ones, nike has somehow found a new low

kings did it right

tho tbf nothing will ever be worse than the sleeved jerseys

some of these are giving the sleeve era a run for its money

im sure ive said this before but it mystifies me that no one but the celtics and nets do two toned unis and the nets dont really count since black cant really be a signature color, someone could just do a celtics rip off with royal blue or whatnot and it would be so good

even just as an alternate how about a purple and white suns uniform it would be different enough than the standard but still recognizable as the suns

they did it with the christmas uniforms a couple times and it was clean

omg the indy one lmaoooooooo

― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, October 20, 2023 3:45 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

haha i sort of skipped over those on my phone, jesus h. christ they are bad

seems like it's actually pretty hard to create great uniform designs and maybe doing 60 new ones every year is just gonna lead to total shit like this but who knows

but they can sell a few more jerseys to compulsive shoppers so

but these are like pranks, something has come loose inside the machine, it’s just insane

i mean it seems so obvious that diluting your product with a bunch of total crap year after year is bad but who am i just a poster on a board looking to understand this world

actually i think its easy xp i just imagine these are C-Suited to the point of no return.

i mean it seems so obvious that diluting your product with a bunch of total crap year after year is bad but who am i just a poster on a board looking to understand this world

― Clay, Friday, October 20, 2023 5:19 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

theres two schools of thought one is make something good the other is business school

i think they should make some rules. i think the idea of new 'city' themes is ok but they should be worn very sparingly and only at home and only during the reg seaosn. once the playoffs start it should be standard home whites at home vs standard color away unis. no throwbacks or alts.

the fact i have to look back on the 2016 cavs team winning the title in black sleeved unis just adds to my pain.

lol insult to injury

I like all the dumb experiments. Spice of life.

mods

agreed re going back to basics in the offs, my feeling is all alternates should be recognizably the same brand as the standard unis ie same colors font actually says the team name or city on them maybe you can do some slight color variation like when the celtics add a gold tertiary color its fine they still look like celtics uniforms, this thing where you turn on the tv and cant tell which teams are playing is just inane most of the uniforms are ass in their own right and the cutesy nickanme jersey are so lame, also for sure ban all alternate courts its too much no one needs that

the one exception im willing to make is if the celtics get dunkin donuts uniforms that would be proper and correct

I’d be ok to require all alts have gradients.

we dont have enough users to fp you but it is deserved

I think teams should explore more aesthetics. Vaporwave. Coastal Grandma. Liminal Space.

the Seapunk Supersonics

knicks seem like the most steampunk team

this thing where you turn on the tv and cant tell which teams are playing is just inane most of the uniforms are ass in their own right and the cutesy nickanme jersey are so lame

uniforms have evolved. in the olden days they served as a simple means of identifying a team's players. in today's sleek modern world of monetized eyeballs and player branding, their only purpose is to maximize a team's revenue stream, by providing ever-changing fodder to a lucrative merchandising franchise. sadly, they suck ass.

Those 90's cartooney uniform logos were terrible, too. It wasn't always classic

yeah the new innovation isnt so much making bad uniforms as it is making a lot of them

next step in the progression is for each player to design and wear their own personalized uniforms in an exclusive color scheme that matches their personally branded shoes.

agreed re going back to basics in the offs, my feeling is all alternates should be recognizably the same brand as the standard unis ie same colors font actually says the team name or city on them maybe you can do some slight color variation like when the celtics add a gold tertiary color its fine they still look like celtics uniforms, this thing where you turn on the tv and cant tell which teams are playing is just inane most of the uniforms are ass in their own right and the cutesy nickanme jersey are so lame, also for sure ban all alternate courts its too much no one needs that

― lag∞n, Friday, October 20, 2023 2:33 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

agree re color but teams should be able to do weird colored throwbacks.

also the good alts shouldnt have a one year cap on them. like miami should clearly still be playing in the og miami vice ones and they shouldnt be relegated cos of a dumb rule. jazz sunsets. wizards pinks. etc

totally otm, if you could keep a great alt plus the regular one then I think experimenting with a third would be more palatable

the Seapunk Supersonics

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, October 20, 2023 5:50 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i need a mockup of this

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Celtics official '23-'24 City-Edition Jersey👀

What do you rate these? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Qrvx9o9EfC

— CelticsMuse (@CelticsMuse) October 23, 2023

once again why is everything so small

jersey a different color than the standard is bad, jersey a similar but different color to the standard is worse, jersey the color of a different team is the pits

obvs the cutesy visual references in these things, which in this case is also very ugly, should be thrown in the fuckin charles river kid