truepg
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I'm assessing the Wolves' situation from the point of view of a fan of another similarly "non-desired destination" franchise – the Cavs – that I've been supporting for already 20 years soon. And if that swing won't work, I'm not content with having to settle for keeping on losing and be handicapped for the foreseeable future. I want to see my team have the opportunities to bounce back and put themselves in the best position as soon as possible from there on. Let alone that the draft is an intriguing part of all the fun in its own right that is no less exciting to be engaged in. Another thing is, was Gobert's desire to play for the Wolves a deciding factor in case of this particular trade? Otherwise I don't see how the destination would affect the given up value for him.
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Boston has made all the right moves in adding serious pieces to form a championship squad. The Gobert trade for Minny is brutal. The amount they gave away for him picks included, and the fact that it's Rudy Gobert, he's not worth nearly that much. What comes to the amusement park comparison, I don't see it that way, since, as a fan, you're emotionally invested in one franchise and want to see it have the best opportunities to succeed going forward too. You could go to any amusement park and enjoy it as much or even more than your local one, and not have any attachment to it in principle.
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But when they play in their away unis that are mainly purple, they are mainly purple teams. Lakers are as much purple as they are yellow to me. Charlotte wasn't the first on the list, though.
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But the plan should be to acquire such a big through the draft or trades, and build the team by adding those pieces. He might not be D-Wade, but he's just the type of player they needed to build around with who does everything, just like the Cavs do with Garland, and compete from there. The Cavs were not going to be playing for the title right off the jump. The 6th-8th seed is a logical next step for them. Taking a step back wasn't really what I was expecting of the Spurs at this stage and in Pop's career. EDIT: That being said, Murray isn't the best of fits in the backcourt for Atlanta alongside Trey at all. We'll see how it works.
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Potentially five purple teams is too many to me for such an eccentric color, as with any other color scheme, really.
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But do we really need another red-white-navy team? That color scheme with whatever variant of blue happens to be the most common in American sports. There were several teams with that color scheme in the NBA in the '00-'10s, and at one point during that period literally about half the league was red.
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It appears they moved him because he wasn't about to extend his contract this year nor the next, as he would command bigger offers as a free agent. I guess the Spurs got a good return for him in this case, but why wouldn't they pay him the money themselves? Dejounte is exactly the piece they should build around in their situation. Who are they so tied to with their money on their roster?
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Even though to me the Utah Jazz is all Stockton-Malone purple mountains, I'll be all for it if they went straight up to this color scheme with the same color distribution. That good it was: EDIT: Now that I think of it, Pelicans should've just stayed with it. The colors they switched to are very drab. As a side note, there really are too many purple teams indeed.
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Those are beautiful colors. The NOLA Hornets used to have an identity using that kind of colors indeed, and it was an outstanding uniform package along with the graphics.
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What they switched from made this very lackluster uniform in a vacuum too so much more disastrous. The "colors" is arguable, they looked better to me priorly with metallic gold and do so much better now and stand out from the other teams to their advantage with it back.
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What about the Spurs having Dejounte Murray in trade discussions? How does that make sense? Why would you shop a young all-star triple-double machine franchise-cornerstone playmaker when you're a young up and coming team trying to build something and heading in the right direction? Can't see how a John Collins would be better for them.
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But timeless and classy, and unprofessionally lackluster are different things, though. The Cavs still hold that title by a margin. What they switched from in favor of this makes it way more egregious than the Jazz.
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Also, the Heat basically had this identity along with the wordmark from the get-go, only with some minor tweaks. They are also not the "Magic", though, that implies "fantasy". Actually, I don't feel the Heat's identity is stripped-down any, they have a streaking ball in flames as a logo, after all. It's all just an example of being designed in such a solid way that there's nothing more to add or to remove, and would work as well anywhere. The Heat did have a "flame" gradient in their logo at first, though.
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The thing is that the Magic used to have an identity and uniforms that matched their brand in "playfulness" and were totally appropriate in their effort, but then at one point around the beginning of Dwight's career they decided to tone it down for some reason and went further replacing the decent wordmark in the logo with the one on the jerseys that was rather plain. While I don't think the Heat suffer from the issue you mentioned, I totally share your sentiments of the Magic doing so.
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Is no one gonna talk about how there hardly were any current player trades and none involving any big names during the draft? What was that all about?? First time I see it go that way after annual excitement... Considering there's as much trade rumors floating as always this time in the offseason too.
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Aside from those two wordmarks not working visually together, that "Miami" that was used on the City jerseys too just isn't as impeccably solid design-wise and on the same level as the (current) Heat wordmark, and would get tired quickly. The black hoop commands too much attention away from the ball, hence white works better there. What comes to magenta alongside orange, I'm not really a fan of that color combination that the Floridians used to have, the hues are too close to each other. Don't see it necessary for the current Heat.
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Well, the Heat's identity is very solid and one of the best designed in the league apart from having a winning and long-standing history.
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Exactly, and it would look much better with black stripes on yellow and yellow on black and white. It might be a similar kind of "chrome" thing they put on the court, but comes across only as a gimmick that doesn't do much visually on the unis.
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One thing that softens the blow for me in Jazz' case is that the identity they used to have starting from the logo and ending with the color palette was one of, if not the most boring, uninteresting and uninspired in the league. Only the Thunder have another clear case here. So, not that I will miss any of that. Not a fan of the Mardi Gras-like NOLA colorway in any form.
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Ow, this Cavs' version is actually fire!
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Well, yeah, the options are limited. Actually, I'm pleased to see them wear it, but it would be more interesting if they used the earlier and the initial version of the uniform with bronze color in place of gold, the one MJ played in. Or maybe they will?
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Even though I'm not indifferent towards this uniform, it feels weird and premature to have it as a Classic edition already when it was still their main look up till ten years ago.
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This means inline numbers are coming.
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My, oh my. So, they took the poor primary logo and removed the one good and redeeming element from it, and kept everything else. Also removing the most interesting symbolic element that distinguishes this team from everyone else. I kinda see that you couldn't have had both the ball-net and the sword as the centerpiece of the identity, but we didn't need that net logo at all. That being said, however, in a vacuum, it is very well executed, and could've been used as an insignificant tertiary logo in the same manner of the Hornets' "Buzz City" logo, and make an appearance on an alternate jersey or something if they so badly wanted to. Well, at least the transition to metallic gold is the redeeming part of this change, but boy they failed to improve even on the previous update. Hoping the unis would make up for this considerably. LeBron 1.0 era identity is still the best one of all its different forms we've seen. P.S. What comes to comments on the ball lacking seams – there is enough intricate detailing in the letters' inlines and the net, so adding lines to the ball would be too much visually. Also, let's not pretend they were intending to design a Larry O'Brien trophy element – because it's not, it's just a net and a ball – they just came up with that notion afterwards. Then again, for a city that so much values its title after striving for it for so long and having finally won one, I don't see any harm done and totally appropriate.
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I hope that new CAVS with a net is only an alternate logo, didn't feel it needed a comeback at all. The sword has been an excellent symbol for the Cavaliers and they'd be wise to keep it. Also the C mark really works with a flattened single-color gold "drop shadow". Weird to see a team go back to a bleaker shade in an era of vibrant colors, but then again, I never was fully onboard with the recent bright yellow, and this sets them well apart from the Nuggets and makes their identity more unique.
