truepg
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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.
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To me that logo was just okay, a little on the generic side. The first rendition of the court with that identity, though, had everything right in every way, and I don't get why they felt the need to mess around with it so many times after, resulting in not so good and considerably weaker looks.
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Yeah, sure, but the Thunder and the Nets logos don't really have much design "flaws" as they're just poor logos, and that Clippers' on a level of its own, of course (even though the LAC monogram is decent to me). Then there are those modifications in the form of unnecessary add-ons to what used to be very solid logos - the Cavs, Wizards, Rockets - that make the new entity weak or visually dysfunctional. Those new Spurs' logos, though, have design flaws that shouldn't have made it past the senior designers in charge.
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I'm surprised how incredibly amateur these logos are. The spur on the X is extremely forced, all while they could've made it come off the left leg of the X, it is right there. Also creating such an awkward huge negative space between the TX, which also could've been resolved. The state shaped logo is fine, but why include the depth effect on the stem of the spur and not have it anywhere else on the graphic, making it stick out like a sore thumb? Then they shrink the SATX logo with all its outlines as is and slap it onto a ball, creating unnecessary clutter and inconsistency in the outlines of the resulting logo.
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I like that they're experimenting with the caps – it's a one-off that really doesn't hold that much significance and allows to do that – but it's not really home runs they're hitting, especially with a white base color. Every cap should represent the identity of the respective team strongly and that way be clearly distinguishable from one another.
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We've come to a point where I'm longing for Miami in the red uniforms again, so little I've seen them wear it lately. We've actually reached the mark where wearing an alternate feels special and is looked forward to, the way it used to be.
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If talking about facts, Kyrie was also just a few years in into his young career when LeBron joined Cleveland already as an experienced veteran with two titles. LeBron had never won a ring without other stars either (his team-jumping and gathering other superstars to unite with is a considerable let-down in his career of its own, for that matter). Then Kyrie did miss the playoffs his first year with Boston. Not gonna win ever can't be said yet. Not comparing the two players here, but Kyrie was as crucial to Cleveland's chip, and my point was that calling him 'LeBron's Pippen' is not doing that '16 title effort justice at all.
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Not really, his personality and antics/decisions aside, Kyrie was as much a reason as LeBron for the Cavs' '16 title, who willed Cleveland to the championship that year. He had a phenomenal performance in that Finals, scoring 41 points apiece with LeBron in one of the games among others, and the shot was as significant, if not even more of a staple that decided the victory, than the epic block by LeBron that preceded it. What comes to the verbal beefing with fans and the stuff Beverley did after the play-in win too – I love it, it adds drama, passion and emotions to the games. Otherwise the product has gotten too soft and watered-down with all the regulations, restrictions and buddy-buddy atmosphere. The fans are the ones who 'ask for it' once they decide to shout such things, anyway.
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Many things would be better than their current lifeless primaries. The green fir trees (trim) had become such an iconic and unique thing of theirs that they ought to include them as an integral part of their uniforms and identity and stick to it. The mashup uniforms are very decent indeed, but there are lots of ways to improve on the primary set using the fir trees and green more prominently. What's interesting, is that the green tree trim also worked best with a black jersey base, while I'm usually an opponent of the current craze of making black uniforms for the sake of it, (or for better profit, whatever). While not feeling it very much at the time either, I'll use this also as yet another opportunity to voice that the latest brand renewal was a lateral move at best from the previous graphic package, and really not very necessary, in terms of logos, at least.
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Everything indicates that they might've redesigned the O'Brien trophy indeed, since the seams on the ball and the net are silver in the new Finals logo, unlike it used to be.
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That's what I figured before the start of the season, but I don't really get what's happening with Edwards – one night he gives you 30, the other he stays under 10.
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The Cavs' City ended up on the better side after feeling like one of the most uninspired on release.
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Eh, the powder blue was such a better look for Denver than the current bleak overuse of navy. I wish they based their current look on the royal blue and maroon colors more.
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I assumed it was two different teams, but that's very common practice, and it doesn't prevent all the teams from following the same defined brand. Moreover, it's what usually would be done.
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I wonder, if anyone with insight knows, if there is an explanation to why the unis are designed with such a mismatch to the all-star court and branding like this time around? Last year's Pacers-inspired uniforms in Atlanta don't count for known reasons. Last time I remember the uniform design following the brand was in Toronto.
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I find it refreshing and interesting to set aside the animosity and rivalry for one night of the year and have fun and join forces with other star players from teams representing the same conference in a game against the other conference. So, there definitely is a place for that kind of a set up and inter-conference clash and pride. Let alone the fact that the competition in the league comes down to the one best team from each conference, respectively, and both conferences are compared constantly in terms of strength among fans. On the other hand, I couldn't care less about the outcome of a pickup game between the buddies the two captains pick to their teams.
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Having All-Star uniforms feels like nothing more than a money-grab. It was more interesting indeed when everyone played in their teams' uniform. I can see some justification, if they're based on the host team's identity. Otherwise no.
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Don't think it's Cleveland behind the All-Star uni design... Anyway, I would've hoped this was the Celebrity game jersey or something, but now that Conrad has confirmed it too.. Another big ol' head scratcher.
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I've always liked when team color accessories were worn with white unis, looks so much more interesting. The Heat haven't usually done that, though, so I'm kinda used to the single color clean look as their thing.
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Those stripes at the top of the jersey look good to me only at the extent they're used on the current jerseys, not more.
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Not the next LeBron James, whose one of the main skills was playmaking, but comparable hype. With his play, he has posted such numbers on a regular basis with ease that even exceeded those of a usual number one pick during first years of their career. The fact that he has been plagued by injuries and possible questionable decisions, is a different story.
