Digby
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Huh, so same font or close to it, but it looks radically different in this application (at least in my eyes). My biggest complaint with the core Brooklyn set is how crappy and spindly and condensed the numbers look (it's fine in the Brooklyn wordmark but the numbers look awful). So the bulked up look I think is an improvement, despite being tonal numbers and overall a silly uniform. I guess they've decided with the Basquiat Corpse-worship uniforms that they don't need two different street-art wordmarks, either. Bring back the original gray BKLYNs.
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Is that a new typeface for the Nets? Or does it just look radically different when it's tonal/outlined. Looks more like the new Utah than the "classic" (lol) Nets.
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I do not understand how Seahawks in neon green is not considered a light uniform. Hard to watch against Denver in all-white. Horrible lack of contrast. -
Sounds like the midseason tournament will be mostly designated "special" regular season games the way the WNBA is doing it... but, I guess it doesn't have to stay that way. 2 games against everyone, 1 extra against your conference (rotate home and away yearly), 1 extra extra against a regional rival maybe. 78 is probably an acceptable drop with some tournament nonsense to make up for it.
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4 divisions of 8 teams could make for nice scheduling, though I'm having trouble figuring out a good way to put everyone into sensible pods of 8. This being the NBA, I could also see expansion being the reason to nuke the divisions and do something -edgy-, anyway. Maybe just do pure conferences with a rotation of who you play extra games against.
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Cincy should be good for a playoff spot at this point. Good for them! Miami haven't made that leap and I can't see this year's inconsistent Revs picking up all the points they need rest of the way.
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I mean it’s just all way too cramped isn’t it? Might’ve worked in a time before two ads on the front of the jersey.
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i thought the most recent home kit, used by the men and women both, already looked like a barely-altered version of the 2019 WWC kit. Solves the USA “identity crisis” I guess. Even if the latest version looks like a bad sewing job.
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Naive to think anyone wasn’t cheating, the Astros just maybe partied a little too hard on that front. Baseball‘s widespread cheating era was better than the modern Excelball, anyway. Bring back PEDs, ban data modeling.
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I don’t know, maybe it’s been sitting through years of “can Tatum and Brown play together?”, but I do question somewhat the all-encompassing fear of being stuck on a treadmill of mediocrity, or second-round exits in this case. I can see both sides of the argument re Utah, but I wonder if a new owner who’s clearly eager for a fresh start/new FO whose reputation is Assets were maybe thumbing the scale a bit.
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Looks like Arsenal are wearing the grey goalkeeper kit socks for their outfield players with the black away today? I guess it sorta matches the stripes on the shirt, almost?
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I mean anyone is an improvement over Gallinari if he can’t play. Melo or one of the guys from the ongoing Utah tear down works, if Brad and Danny wanna make a deal. Just needs to be the 8th best player on the team and knock down enough shots to make the bench minutes respectable and take the slightest scoring load off the Jays.
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Feels like someone is going to draft Bronny outrageously high (he's a mid-2nd rounder at best, right?) just to extort Cleveland, and who could blame them? Also, Gallinari tore his ACL on FIBA duty, which is a pretty unlucky twist to Boston's previously promising summer.
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I think it was two years for this, and then only one year for the variant with a navy away jersey (which is ridiculous, but). I agree that this was better thanks to the merciful replacement of Aachen Bold and the needed inclusion of a dark color in the scheme. But I also think there were too many outlines going on, and the color jerseys would've been improved by deleting white entirely (a la the 00s alternate).
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I liked the SexLand emergence but hard to argue against Mitchell being a clear upgrade. I think it's a great trade for Cleveland, they've got 3 or 4 All-Stars now. It's nice to see them being competent and truly going for it sans LeBron. Even though their uniforms suck now. Depth seems like it may be an issue for them, but that's a future problem. Also, lol Knicks.
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Shams: Wasn't betting on that landing spot!
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I don't know why the Celtics haven't wanted to touch the Russell-era classics since the Pierce/KG years. Maybe just making the numbers a hair smaller and switching to a serif block wordmark isn't enough to sell jerseys. But it's a shame they won't use them this year.
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I mean, it's a valid frustration. These are ultimately schemes to sell more merch and add a little extra interest to watching the game. The historical record is not validated by what throwbacks get worn. So going all the way back to the franchise's first year, if said first year was a brief blip in a different city in a time that was so ramshackle that the uniforms weren't even consistent (as this thread has shown) is maybe missing the forest for the trees. Are any Rockets fans really secretly jonesing to wear Sonics merch?
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The Angels have had all this stadium angst, crappy ownership and play second-fiddle to the dynastic team of our time, but despite that have drawn relatively well and caught at least some coattails of being in a big market. So I don't see much value in moving them out of the market entirely (as long as they don't try to get cute with DTLA, which seems like suicide). They've always been a strong-if-unspectacular franchise during times of competent stewardship.
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I'd agree with this. Strangely wasteful!
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Any step in the right direction of Adidas teams getting bespoke team typefaces instead of the generic manufacturer one is a step I'd support. Aside from that quirk (and Argentina and Belgium's weird flame nonsense) I'd agree that this is a really excellent range for Adidas this year. Puma is always lowkey the worst designer at major tournaments. Like the third wheel to the Nike/Adidas rivalry that's too weak and messy to even pay attention to.
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I liked the navy Nuggets for three reasons: the lack of white, the wordmark change not being great but at least saving us from more Aachen Bold, and powder blue being too light a color to use as an away IMO. The current royal blue one is a nice color combo that feels as "classic Nuggets" as is able to exist with some modern flair to it, just a shame about the "Mile High Basketball" nonsense. The current colors and wordmarks and logos all feel appropriate for Denver in the 2020s, but does seem oddly difficult to make a decent jersey out of.
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It's nice and different and a good reminder that they tied themselves to Urban Outfitters chic from 10 years ago.
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I thought it was: - 4 series against your division - 2 series against your non-division but same league - 1 series against the other league (home/away rotating annually)
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No shortage of wordmark inspo from the 'Mats discography, either.
