(Slightly OT) Logo

Probably just something simple like we currently have, but I thought about using “PTB,” or the lower case spelling of “blazers” on the bottom front of the right side.

alternating red & white stripes? the non-symmetric is good, reminiscent of the old Pacer’s jerseys. is the second image supposed to be the jersey back?

..whatever that means.

I kinda like it, it’s radical, but has some style..

Somebody once told me that “honesty can too often be a club we use to beat people with.” I don’t want to beat you with the club of honesty, so let me filter what I’m thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OK.

It looks like you worked very hard on your designs and I applaud your effort and creativity. I would love to see you put a bit more work in and further refine your design idea. Kudos.

This is a great idea for an alternate jersey, and some iteration wouldn’t be a bad call if the team decides they need to switch up the uniforms. I’m a little hesitant to remove the red and white stripes from the front of the jersey, though. Those have become such a hallmark of the PTB basketball brand. I think the logo could be incorporated without sacrificing the stripes.

they must be the road jerseys, so would they be black/red stripes on white jersey for home? The top one is fine, but I don’t like the bottom half, the pinwheel droops and looks like part of a sad face.

I took the current pinwheel and tried to tilt it even more, but don’t have the right software yet on this new computer and Paint will only tilt it 90 deg. and that’s too much. But I was thinking of tilting it more in the same direction … sort of a “going forward, leaving the past behind” effect.

for split squad games

But otherwise what it says to me is “Portland is a team divided”

However, this team does have two sides, eg: the “white” and “black” unit. In this case white and red stripes, but they could be changed per home, away, or alternate jersey’s I suppose.

I would love to see us unveil something a little more cutting edge and radical for the new season, but I’m sure the gear will be the same as last year.

The current unis are a little bland. This is a really interesting design, especially for ms paint. But I strongly doubt this year will bring new unis.

When the Blazers changed theirs in ‘91 they ran into all sorts of problems.

A couple of quotes from an Oregonian article – December 6, 1991
Author: NORM MAVES JR. – of the Oregonian Staff

“The degree of difficulty in making even the slightest change in a National Basketball Association uniform really lies somewhere between enduring a root canal and running the Boston Marathon. The process can wring the most highly placed club officials as dry as executive dishrags”.

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Back and forth with the NBA’s licensing office in New York City. This is what slows the process down: The NBA licenses its uniforms , logos and symbols to sporting goods retailers all over the country. If changes are made, retailers need time to sell the stock on hand. Ergo, more than just the league and Blazers have a say in what the players wear and when they wear it.

The prototype uniforms arrived two days before the season started (4 months late) and were the wrong size. (NBA had changed manufacturers.) “Problem No. 2 was the lettering. The Blazers , who have not changed the lettering on their jerseys much since the first season in 1970-71, wanted something a little more modern. What they got was something that was hard to read without 5-power binoculars.”

I’m sure that things have changed for the better, but the bottom line is that you have to start planning the uniform change several years in advance.

is better, worse or the same as your idea or the current unis, but to combine the stripes and your idea:

But, I love our jerseys already. We have the best colors in the NBA.

Seems a little risky. I applaud the effort, but it comes across looking like those 90’s jerseys that had too much stuff on the front (giant raptor with shoes, giant grizzly, large flaming ball for the suns, giant red hawk)

... I like that it is sort of empty.

No last name on the back!

I love it, but I think you should get rid of the “Portland” on the back, too.

That would be sick. Like those old school Miami ABA jerseys.

Thought I’d join in too, and share what I came up with. I had to put these together pretty quick so the font isn’t correct but it gets my ideas across.

To the older jerseys. I was watching that classic game of Blazers vs. Suns last night and those jerseys and warm-ups simply still can’t be beat 20 years later. The cursive Portland across the front is stylin’!

I know it’s the Portland Trail Blazers, but they have a ton of fans (I would bet more than 50%) who don’t live in Portland proper. I’d like to avoid the use of Portland on the jerseys…. it’s a regional team and by putting a City name on it you may turn off some folks a little bit. I’ve always thought the Oregon Trail Blazers would be a better name, but then again the folks from SW WA probably would disagree with that (and maybe future Seattle area fans). But the whole “Oregon Trail” tie in thing would be cool. I grew up in S. Oregon and they are just as passionate about the Blazers as anyone (I live in Salem now). They are a different breed down there, putting Portland on the jersey would be frowned upon some….

Nice looking now, but this is still good. New unis?

to splitting the pinwheel a little.
I don’t know if I like doing it (even though I put some together myself), but it definitely has a cool look to it.