Digby
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Lmao I forgot about this angle. Hope y’all get more Jayson Tatum than JaJuan Johnson, Aaron Nesmith, Carsten Edwards, Tremont Waters…… Gobert plus KAT seems like a weird fit to me. Like I get it, they’re large but different, I’m assuming power forward KAT is the plan. But I don’t know if that’s SUCH a brilliant idea that it’s worth the trade haul. Then again, what’s Minny got to lose?
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So far it feels to me like Boston, Philly and Milwaukee have all improved depth in places of need. (Brooklyn has not.) Not so much yet for Miami but they also seem like a logical landing spot for KD. Pretty wild.
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Celtics just traded the end of their bench and some picks for Malcolm Brogdon, which I love. A two-guard lineup with him and Smart feels too small to me, but theoretically fixes the most glaring weakness the Celtics had during their "good" half of the season. Fireworks!
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Unfortunately wearing pleather-and-gatorade kits, no doubt.
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Cleveland has enough in their history that a simple uniform can work with them. They also had the brilliant ideas like "normal basketball uniform trim patterns" and "correct colors". Doesn't really seem comparable.
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I'd agree with this. (Stopping the quote here because I think their forays into street-art wordmarks have been try-hard and ill-advised.) My only issues with their core brand are that the number font is narrow and ugly and doesn't go with the main wordmark, and they never did come up with a good primary logo to go with the jerseys and typography in the brand package.
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The Revs have just simulcasted the TV broadcast (which they still produce in-house) to their radio affiliate anyhow, so not much will change in my market. One of the reasons this deal will work is the league, in general, has a lot less infrastructure around broadcasting like that. So it’s easier to just toss it out back and start over at a leaguewide level.
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Not exclusively. Early 2010s was the peak of black/white, “classy”-but-tough minimalism in the trendy hypebeast fashion of the moment. I can’t think of many rebrands that tried to make the connection to fashion that explicit. If they just touched up the old logo and put Brooklyn on the navy and silver unis, they would not have sold nearly as much, that I’m confident of. But yeah, trying to do it again, but worse, 10 years later, and for a perennial four-seed team in Utah is obviously not going to have the same impact, for all those reasons. It doesn’t even have the same impact in Brooklyn now that the fashion culture has moved on, which is why the Nets now alternate between throwbacks that retcon away New Jersey and dressing up as knockoff Basquiats.
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Apart from the general stupidity of these designs, really like that after pushing Diamond Era and then that nylon material and who knows what I’ve missed as the solution to warm weather hats, we’re just back to trucker hats now. Can’t beat the classics!
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The Nets sold loads of merchandise when they first moved to Brooklyn. The Jay-Z cosigns and the Brooklynness of it all helped, obviously. But Deron Williams didn't hit the top-five jersey sales list because of his force of personality.
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I was hoping they made a special order with the Revs so they could do the same. But they were in mono-navy again last night, against Vancouver and their own navy shorts, so I guess not.
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Yeah, hard for me to imagine there isn't some creative accounting going on here.
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Yeah, in a vacuum I agree (and the Netherlands is one of the few countries where I actually don't love when they use their flag colors, but this time it works very well). Can't believe this England kit though. At least give it navy trim...that looks black to me. You'd think after a cycle of the weird blue away kit, they'd have license to keep things pretty straightforward and classic red for this one. Must be saving that for the men's team at WC. -
leftovers from the 2020 home kit it looks like. Weird.
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What's wrong with this picture?
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We sort of had that in the 90s, or was it the early 2000s, with the ESPN Zone restaurants as the sports entry to that era of gaudy, crappy mega-restaurants with a theme, post-Hard Rock Cafe. I assume those are all closed by now. The only one I went to sucked. Though come to think of it, they were awkwardly sportsbooks without the betting, so maybe now they'll come back WITH the betting since I guess that's okay now.
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I actually really like it? Looks like semaphore, which feels like an appropriate nod at Portuguese history.
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At that point just move the franchise to Seattle and make Barclays the full-time concert venue it should've been from day one.
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The incrementalist approach BMO Field has taken to expanding is probably good and sustainable financially but has done it no favors in terms of venue quality. The existing tacked-on upper deck is bad enough, the temporary seats look substantially worse still.
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I have no issues with the color scheme, but the design is so uninspiring. Italy has such a rich design culture and history, especially in sports, how did that happen?
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Right... I feel like there have been a few different purples that they've used: - classic, down-the-middle purple (with both the New Orleans look and the mountains) - that more reddish purple (80s? early 90s?) - the note-revival rebrand always felt like there was a bit more purple in the navy, compared with other navy teams and their own double-blue era
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The previous color scheme would've worked too. Just needed to settle on where in the navy-to-purple they wanted to be; I thought a dark indigo that wasn't a true navy blue but also wasn't the old purple would have been fine. Pair that with the golden yellow and the dark green. Had its historic roots in the Jazz brand but the darker colors felt more right for Utah. I thought it was fine. If having a distinct color scheme is important to the team, they're the ones who insisted on beating the Red Rocks scheme to death over several years. And even apart from the City Uni program, you don't get an identifiable color scheme by embracing literally all possible hues in a gradient of reddish-orange to yellow!
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Uh, has anyone been aware that Sports Illustrated (or whomever owns that brand these days) is planning to get into the hotel/resort business? https://siresorts.com/#locations
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Ah yes, I keep forgetting about the new, terrible structure of the World Cup we'll have in 2026. Seems like there's barely a point to a group stage if it's just three teams.
