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  1. 4 hours ago, Old School Fool said:

    Interesting graphical thing for you here, as we all know in 1994 when Fox got the NFL contract they were the first to use the score bug on screen. Well, in the UK when showing NFL highlights at the time, they made sure to add onto the Fox bug with their own little graphic. They covered up the quarter and time for some reason. I don't know what UK channel it was unfortunately.

     

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    That would have been on Channel 4, who had been showing the NFL since the early 80s. I seem to remember that they did a similar thing with the NBA when they got the rights to that in the mid-90s.

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  2. Doing my weekly shop at my local supermarket and I saw a mobility scooter parked in the entrance atrium totally decked out in Alabama gear, including a huge "Roll Tide" sign on the back. Didn't get a chance to see the person who owned it, but it certainly struck me as an unusual sight for this part of the world.

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  3. When I was at high school in the mid-90s I used to walk past a house that was covered in NY Giants signs - a fairly unusual sight in a small town in the English Midlands. I went past the same house for the first time in a decade or so the other day and the original signs are still there, along with a whole load of new ones and a replica helmet mounted on one of the gateposts.

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  4. 15 hours ago, ThunderCeltic said:

     

    This was the 1991-92 season which was the last year for the Suns at the Memorial Coliseum and final season in the original Suns look while Portland updated their set for the 1991-92 campaign.

     

    Specifically Game 4 of the Western Conference Semis played on May 11th 1992, a 153-151 Blazers win in double-OT - the final* home game for that uni set.

     

     

     

     

    *It was also used in the 1992-93 preseason, leading to a few confusing pics of Barkley in the Western-style unis.

  5. Whilst looking for old Jazz pics, I came across this:

     

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    That's Slick Watts during the 1977-78 season, wearing a road jersey from the Jazz's inaugural season. This was from a game at Portland - I suspect it's the game on 8th January 1978, Slick's first road game with the team. I'm assuming that there wasn't time to get a current jersey lettered and numbered. Slick wore #14 for his first couple of weeks with the Jazz before switching to #00.

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  6. 19 hours ago, kimball said:

    Yeah, I saw that one too. I'd love to know the exact dates of the two pictures because they're two different numbers, but in Landover against the Bullets. I wonder if it was the same game? It'd be fun to dig a little.

     

    Meriwether wore #31 for his first season with the Jazz, 1977-78, then wore #50 for the start of the 1978-79 season (he was traded to the Knicks after 36 games). The only game he played in Washington as a member of the Jazz  that season was the opening game of the season, 13th October 1978.

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  7. On 4/13/2023 at 4:32 AM, kimball said:

    Here's a fun one. Joe C. Meriweather of the New Orleans Jazz with his name under the number, something the Jazz never did as a team. I am assuming because of the length of his last name?

     

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    Must have been a temporary thing - the Jazz had standard NoBs but it looks like Joe C's surname was too long.

     

    It fits ok in this picture, although the number is a little low as a result:

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  8. On 11/23/2022 at 10:26 PM, BBTV said:

     

    I don't know the story here, but if it was an unnumbered jersey, can't they just let him play on his own recognizance?  I mean, it's not like the refs, announcers, and fans need his number to know that it's Dr. J.  If it's some jabroni like the guy he's dunking on, then sure - he needs a number.  But guys like him, Kareem, MJ, etc. could get away for a game without one.

     

    NBA rules state that a player's jersey must display both a front and rear number. It's the only element that HAS to appear on the uniform.

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  9. On 11/12/2022 at 11:23 AM, Old School Fool said:

    Found some pictures from the 1997/98 Preseason where some games used the ABA ball.

     

    Yes, that's Kobe Bryant dunking with an ABA ball and it's amazing.

     

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    That was something the 4 ABA teams did to mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of that league. I seem to remember at least one team (think it was Denver) asking permission to use the ball in a regular season game but were shot down.

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  10. On 11/3/2022 at 1:43 PM, pepis21 said:

    I don't know if this was posted or not, but I found it just by coincidence.

    It's labeled as a prototype from 97/98 season.  It look legit so they probably considered to introduce a white uniform much earlier than 2002.

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    1997-98 was the first year Nike made the Lakers' unis, so it makes sense that they'd make up some potential new uni designs. I know the league had been pushing the Lakers to introduce a 3rd jersey for a couple of years by that point.

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  11. 12 hours ago, LA Fakers+ LA Snippers said:

    Don't know, but I doubt many. Houston won back to back titles and switched jerseys the next year.

    Yeah, but that change was set in motion before the Rockets even won their first chip. I think the owner wanted to scrap the rebrand after the 2nd title but it was far too late. 

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  12. 13 hours ago, eibram said:

    Just to correct the record, when I first saw these jerseys 2 years ago:

     

    I could only find them in that photoshoot and only found the shorts here in some actual game footage/documentation:

     

    So I assumed they were just used for promotions or for a preseason/exhibition game. But then after digging a bit more when the Rockets announced the new classic, I found this program as well:

     

    So the best I could figure out was that it was just a variation of the home jersey that they wore during the 1967/68 season. The rockets had a few of those variation jerseys during the 60's which were like alternate versions of their home and road jerseys. Not a lot of quality control and consistency during those times.

     

    (Also, sorry to cross promote but the correction is up on my website too if you guys are interested)

    Like I stated on the previous page, these seemed to be preseason only - I've found no evidence they were worn in the regular season after combing through 1000s of photos. If you've got anything to the contrary, I'd love to see it - I've spent the last 30-odd years researching NBA uniforms and I'm still finding new stuff!

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