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Favorite and least favorite jerseys.

Since the lockout is a downer, it seems like the time is right for a lighthearted topic.

That said, here's a topic: What's everyone's favorite and least favorite NBA jerseys?

My favorite current jerseys are the blue alternates worn by the Los Angeles Clippers.

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My least favorite current jerseys are in a tie. It's between the orange alternates worn by the Phoenix Suns and the yellow alternates worn by the New Orleans Hornets.

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The Suns should stick to purple, while the Hornets should stick to creole blue.

My favorite jerseys in history — aside from the Seattle SuperSonics old green and gold look from my youth — are the silver alternates worn by the early-2000s New Jersey Nets or the expansion era road uniforms worn by the Orlando Magic. It's a toss-up.

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My least favorite jerseys in history are the expansion era road uniforms worn by the Toronto Raptors.

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As y'all can see, I have a thing for alternates. Guess I just plain fancy them. Alternates aside, though, my favorite current jerseys are the Dallas Mavericks road uniforms -- as those have got a clean, crisp look -- while my least favorite current jerseys are the Washington Wizards recently unveiled uniforms, which don't fit the modern style.

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Personally,

I don’t mind the Suns’ orange uniform. However, the others I completely agree with.

And I think I’d go for the Boston green and black as my favorite:

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by Decaf on Jul 31, 2011 9:53 AM PDT reply actions   1 recs

Yeah, the Boston Celtics have a classic look. The Celtics and the color green fit perfectly together, too.

Regarding the color green, I hate when the New York Knicks don their alternates. Green looks ugly on them.

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by AK1984 on Jul 31, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions  

I too am a big fan of the boston Jerseys

Just a nice shade of green. Not too “look at me” but not wallflowerry either.

by moflow on Jul 31, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions  

yeah, those are nice,

just the name detracting…. now Byrd would be perfect.

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by Berkeley on Aug 1, 2011 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions  

update

these are still the nicest looking jerseys in the post. (aside from my personally biased cable car ones).
I always liked them, and the shamrock is excellent.

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by Berkeley on Aug 4, 2011 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions  

the one on top is my very least favorite uni I've ever seen, lol

to me it looks like a McDonalds uniform

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by Tyler Durrden on Jul 31, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions   4 recs

I hate the top look there, bottom one is slick.

long live the jd.

by jksnake99 on Aug 1, 2011 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions  

Did they?

I know they won their ’94 title in the old red ones, and Clyde was traded to them in ’95 and won that same year. And here he is wearing the red. So I think they switched immediately AFTER their two titles.

by meru on Aug 5, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions  

that’s a relief.

long live the jd.

by jksnake99 on Aug 6, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions  

+1

terrible

long live the jd.

by jksnake99 on Aug 1, 2011 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions  

I remember those!

That was when the Society for Creative Anachronism won the jersey design contest, right?

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by Decaf on Jul 31, 2011 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions   1 recs

except for the checks, those are okay

by Section323 on Aug 3, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions  

I like

that the word “sixers” appears to be flying up from it’s hiding place under those shorts.

by moflow on Aug 2, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions  

haha

i wish i had fireworks coming out of my shorts.

i like it here, there, everywhere.

by Name's Ash on Aug 2, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions  

do the Cavs colors include ALL colors?

by Section323 on Aug 3, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions  

Here's a question:

Has any team’s jersey featured brown to any significant degree?

by meru on Jul 31, 2011 10:25 AM PDT reply actions  

The Denver Nuggets once had a bronzish brown as its secondary color, which actually looked all right.

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Yet, I’m not sure if any NBA team has had a shade of brown as its primary color. Concerning brown, there’s nothing worse than those vintage San Diego Padres uniforms. The vintage Vancouver Canucks and vintage Denver Broncos uniforms were ugly shads of brown, too.

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by AK1984 on Jul 31, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions  

essentially, most of the 90s uniforms kinda sucked...

at least the teams that decided to put some kind of graphic on their jersey

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by Tofu Anonymous on Jul 31, 2011 10:26 AM PDT reply actions  

To add to that, it looks like a bear is attacking Big Country's leg.

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Similarly, the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks’ jerseys looked revolting in the mid-’90s.

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by AK1984 on Jul 31, 2011 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions  

those hawks unis were horrendous

long live the jd.

by jksnake99 on Aug 1, 2011 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions  

I thought the 1980s Nuggets uniforms were the worst

But wow, those Bucks jerseys are horrible. I think they win my top vote for ugly.

by Corvid on Aug 1, 2011 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions  

If you’re going to make a guy live in Milwaukee, you simply can’t ask him to wear something like that. Besides, what’s with the team colors switching back and forth between green & red and green & purple?

By the way, ever see this site? :
http://www.ssur.org/research/TeamColors/Basketball/NationalBasketballAssociation/NationalBasketballAssociation.htm

by Corvid on Aug 1, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions  

Nah, I hadn't seen that site.

But yeah, Milwaukee does go through its colors.

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At least those are all better than what they wore in the ’80s.

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by AK1984 on Aug 1, 2011 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions  

i love the championship blazer unis, my favorites of all time

i like the new jazz ones:

i like the new warriors jerseys, my favorite current ones:

Steve Smith is my favorite Blazer of all time

by thomasikehara on Jul 31, 2011 10:57 AM PDT reply actions  

I'm not a fan of the championship era Portland Trail Blazers jerseys.

Even so, the worst jerseys from the ’70s were those of the Atlanta Hawks.

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Pat Riley just stood there fixated on the monstrosity that was Pistol Pete’s jersey.

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by AK1984 on Jul 31, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions  

fantastic

long live the jd.

by jksnake99 on Aug 1, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions  

oh yeah, as a bay area product,

the Golden Gate rules, and then adding a cable car… pretty killer.

Wake me when the game is on.

by Berkeley on Aug 1, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions  

actually, they should really just rename the team

to the Golden Gate Warriors…
“Golden State” ?? they are not the whole state of California. That name has always been frustrating.

Wake me when the game is on.

by Berkeley on Aug 1, 2011 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions  

You mean like "The City"?

As Eddie Izzard asked – “what does that make Oakland – ‘the collection of houses’?”

by meru on Aug 1, 2011 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions  

Oakland would be one of dozens of satellite 'cities'

surrounding THE city of the Northern realm: San Francisco with its awesome, world renown, signature Golden Gate Bridge landmark, as opposed to THE city of the Southern realm: Los Angles, or, typically simply ‘L.A.’ with its hundreds (thousands ? millions ?) of satellite cities, all within the ‘Golden State’.
‘The City’ works for Bay Area residents, and if someone can’t figure out WHAT city with a picture of the Golden Gate and a trolley on a steep hill, well, too bad.
“Golden State” is an excessively broad misnomer for the bay area team.

Wake me when the game is on.

by Berkeley on Aug 1, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions  

oh, and when I said rename the team,

I didn’t mean change the jersey, I meant totally rename the team, in case that was not clear.

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by Berkeley on Aug 1, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions  

I like the Warriors late-'80s/early-'90s jerseys.

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Those were simple, yet good-looking uniforms.

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by AK1984 on Aug 1, 2011 7:41 PM PDT up reply actions  

those are horrendous

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by thankyouforblaze on Aug 3, 2011 5:12 AM PDT up reply actions  

At least there are no sponsored NBA jerseys yet. Otherwise you could see some real atrocities...

Like this very manly outfit of the Telekom Baskets Bonn powered by T-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom who, well, happens to have magenta as their corporate color. It kinda worked for sponsoring cycling, but for basketball it’s pretty weird. They won a championship in that gear recently (or some slight variation thereof), now try to get a fan to wear that outside of the arena. Also note that even the ref is branded. Some real opportunities to improve the income of the NBA in the near future :-)

In terms of the NBA, some of my least favorite jerseys include what the NBA has done for various All-Star games, and also what they did for some Rookies vs. Sophomores games. E.g. the ones from Phoenix where everything seemed oddly proportioned and colored in shades of purple.

What I also really didn’t like was the Cavs recent alternate jersey that made LeBron look as if he were already playing for the NY Knicks.

by Norsktroll on Jul 31, 2011 12:18 PM PDT reply actions  

I have said for awhile that I think the Blazers should do an alternate with silver as the main field color

in the regular style though not the “rip city” style. I also really liked the Nets silver uni’s.

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by Tyler Durrden on Jul 31, 2011 1:32 PM PDT reply actions  

Yeah, the Nets silver jerseys were the best. The navy blue uniforms were nice, too. Not sure why they ...

stuck with red, though, which are by far the worst of the current styles. Oh well, I guess that red is better than going back to the light metallic blue gradient jerseys of the early-’90s.

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by AK1984 on Jul 31, 2011 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions  

you hate anything

with colors fading into one another.

by moflow on Jul 31, 2011 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions  

For example, I didn't like the Utah Jazz's mountain landscape jerseys.

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The mountain landscape is outstanding as a logo, but it looks gaudy on the actual jerseys.

That’s why I liked these better than those.

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by AK1984 on Jul 31, 2011 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions  

these ones are great

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by LeGarrette Blount's Right Fist on Jul 31, 2011 4:01 PM PDT reply actions   1 recs

also

"Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know."
Shaq

by LeGarrette Blount's Right Fist on Jul 31, 2011 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions  

yeah, that’s the best hawks look

long live the jd.

by jksnake99 on Aug 1, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions  

Yeah

the pinstriping was mean, particularly for chicago. Classic gangster look.

by moflow on Aug 1, 2011 8:51 AM PDT up reply actions  

my least favorite jersey

is anything having to do with the L*kers…

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by thankyouforblaze on Jul 31, 2011 7:19 PM PDT reply actions   3 recs

Call me crazy, but I like the Lakers white alternate home uniforms.

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It’s kind of abnormal for a NBA team to have white as its tertiary color.

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by AK1984 on Jul 31, 2011 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions  

eww

sasha

Steve Smith is my favorite Blazer of all time

by thomasikehara on Aug 1, 2011 7:58 AM PDT up reply actions  

lol

White and yellow just dont go together very well IMHO. They’re both just too light. Actually the lakers just have ugly colors in general.

by moflow on Aug 1, 2011 8:58 AM PDT up reply actions  

One team that didn't fall victim to that tacky trend was the San Antonio Spurs.

Well, unless you consider Dennis Rodman to be a “comic book/cartoon” personified.

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by AK1984 on Aug 1, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions  

Pretty hard to be too atrocious

when your colors are black and white. Spurs uniforms always look good but not great.

by moflow on Aug 1, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions  

Fun stuff!

I’m only the 2nd rec?!

by Corvid on Aug 1, 2011 9:52 AM PDT reply actions  

a couple more

I always liked this Pacers look

I think the classic Bobcats look is awful

long live the jd.

by jksnake99 on Aug 1, 2011 2:16 PM PDT reply actions  

I liked the pinstriped look for the Indiana Pacers.

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The worst was those jerseys the Pacers wore in the ’80s.

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by AK1984 on Aug 1, 2011 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions  

whaaaat???

That 80’s Jersey is AWESOME! Look at the way “Pacers” is written…clearly those letters are from the future.

by moflow on Aug 2, 2011 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions  

i don’t like pinstripes in general, even in baseball. In basketball I really don’t like them.

by Section323 on Aug 3, 2011 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions  

as much as I dislike the Yankees, I think they pull off the pinstripe look phenomenally well, far better than any other sports team.

long live the jd.

by jksnake99 on Aug 3, 2011 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions  

yes

if anyone pulls off pinstripes, it’s the Yankees. i don’t really hate the Cubs in pinstripes either. It works better in baseball, because the teams generally do pinstripes on white home uniforms, plus, well, they are wearing pants, not shorts.

Pinstripes on aqua blue uniforms are just wrong, and pinstripes on shorts generally just look silly to me.

by Section323 on Aug 3, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions  

I think in the NBA the Magic and the Bulls have pulled it off best

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by sammymohawk on Aug 12, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions  

I am developing somee basic rules for jersey design as I compare:

rule 1) flat finish NOT glossy – flat looks like soft, broken in, comfortable cotton, glossy looks like sweat bag, gawdy, agonizing plastic.
rule 2) three colors max, preferably with one small white trim color.
rule 3) less is more, keep it simple, no to large format artwork

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by Berkeley on Aug 3, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions  

Another important thing is to keep it simple.

An example of a team not following that basic rule was the early-’80s New York Knicks.

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For no good reason, the player’s number was set above the team name on the front of the jersey.

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by AK1984 on Aug 3, 2011 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions  

Wait, you did write "keep it simple" there.

So yeah, you’re on target with that assessment.

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by AK1984 on Aug 3, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions  

Royals were dope

dinasour type of guys choir boys

by mittsabishy on Aug 3, 2011 1:14 PM PDT reply actions  

Do any of you prefer city names on the jersey, or team names?

Weirdly enough, it seems city name jerseys are often preferred in this thread (with various exceptions), but that may be because teams switched to using their team name on the jersey during the “cartoon era,” so to speak.

by Timmay! on Aug 3, 2011 4:16 PM PDT reply actions  

I like city names on road jerseys and team names on home jerseys.

The one thing that I dislike, though, is abbreviated city names on jerseys.

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Whenever on the road, go with the full city name on the jersey to show pride.

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by AK1984 on Aug 3, 2011 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions  

I agree with AK1984

Those 90’s pin stripe black/blue Orlando uni’s were sweeeeet.

I also liked these

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by 420Phenom on Aug 3, 2011 4:41 PM PDT reply actions  

I have to say we (the PTB) have been really fortunate with our colors and jerseys

I think red, black, white and silver are the best colors you can have although I never cared for the red alternative jerseys. I really enjoy the 90’s jerseys with the obnoxious logo on the front (Raptors especially) they stand out and completely capture the essence of that era. My current favorite is the Timberwolves I could pick any of the 3.

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by ODEN on a stick on Aug 7, 2011 6:50 PM PDT reply actions  

sweet jersey

and its pretty cool how they got Zac Efron to model for them.

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by Sean in Vancouver on Aug 11, 2011 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions  

Nice topic

I’m a huge Mavs fan but the Knicks home jersey it’s hands down the current best looking NBA jersey.Simple, stylish, good mesh of colors, and the biggest city of USA written on it.Number 1 it’s also very very nice.

by Fjodor on Aug 11, 2011 12:19 PM PDT reply actions  

cavs 90s early 2000

right before the Lebron era in CLE; actually had some good looking jerseys

cavs have nice jerseys now; like the old school look; and Cavaliers are the only team to pull off that color combo:


current; I like these best:

by GoonBoon on Aug 11, 2011 4:36 PM PDT reply actions  

Rip City ones are sick

right up there with the new Golden State ones, and the Royals one, as my favorite in this thread.

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by Sean in Vancouver on Aug 11, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions  

and hold on

is that Dre in the Pre-Lebron Cav’s jersey?

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by Sean in Vancouver on Aug 11, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions  

call me biased,but.....

I like the blazers 80s jerseys, specifically the red ones that weren’t worn for very long. I think it’s the font that makes them so cool looking because it’s so unique, and of course the stripes.
http://chriscreamer.com/images/logos/6/239/full/snfihewr6rc1flewhlu612llo.gif

by GreatOdensRaven on Aug 11, 2011 7:59 PM PDT reply actions  

man, I really wanted to look

but the link says “forbidden”

Say it ain't Cho

by Sean in Vancouver on Aug 11, 2011 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions  

really

that’s lame. It works for me

by GreatOdensRaven on Aug 12, 2011 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions  

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