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  1. The real reason the Grizzlies moved is because they were screwed out of the Tim Duncan lottery by the ass-backwards rule at the time that blocked recent expansion teams from getting the #1 pick for a certain number of years. There was just no recovering from that. Granted, they still might have lost that lottery without that rule, but not even giving them a chance after suffering through the worst team in the league is the last thing any league in their right mind would want to do when they're trying to establish themselves in a new market.
  2. I'd have a hard time giving Vince more credit for that than actual Canadians like Steve Nash, or the literal inventor of the sport, James Naismith. Regardless, you shouldn't get to treat a franchise the way Vince did on his way out and still be honored by them. Especially when they won one playoff series with him and nothing else. The NBA has a huge problem with teams and their fanbases being treated like doormats for the players' egos, and this would just reinforce the problem. I'm not a Vince hater, but... throwing a tantrum because the Raptors wouldn't hire Dr. J as GM, telling the Raptors' opponents which plays they were about to run during games, making a big show of refusing to dunk anymore for the home crowd - he went out of his way to make his departure from Toronto as messy as possible and it's just not the kind of behavior that should be rewarded. Maybe if he had returned to Toronto later in his career, it would make more sense.
  3. Disagree. That '70s style logo fits much better in the G-League at this point alongside other retro-kitsch brands like the GoGo and the Hustle. The big league club's new logo is more suitable for the modern NBA.
  4. Those colors absolutely do contrast. Maybe they're not the absolute best colors to have touching each other, but it's not the end of the world like you're making it out to be either.
  5. Just a quick idea I had trying to combine the San Diego colors and the unused '90s colors with the new logo: I liked the one on the left better first, but now I'm starting to prefer the sublety of how the seafoam green and light blue almost blend into each other in the one on the right.
  6. Was anyone complaining that they were too big before? I certainly don't remember it. The smaller names make the uniforms look like how they'd be rendered in an old video game.
  7. I've always been more forgiving of this logo than most just because of the circumstances. It was a last-minute rush job to get rid of a logo that was associated with the worst owner in sports history. Looking at the Washington Football Team/Commanders clownshow, it could have been a whole lot worse. OKC has no excuse. The Nets are worse than both - their move to Brooklyn was announced seven years in advance but the branding looks like it was thrown together in an afternoon.
  8. I disagree. The Wizards are primarily red, the Clippers are primarily navy, and the uniform designs are so radically different that I doubt anyone will confuse them. The current Wizards uniforms overlapped with the Hawks' navy and red era and nobody confused those either.
  9. Well, that explains why it looks like the Twins' rebrand - it's the same designer. Wolff seems to have a particular style. I also noticed that several of the soccer team logos he's designed have Art Deco-style typography that's very much in the same vein as the Clippers' new text font.
  10. I could do with fewer roundels in the NBA, but I think this is one instance where it makes sense with the design. The Clippers have also had a roundel in some form for almost their entire franchise history except for a few years in Buffalo, so there's some continuity there. Looking at the league as a whole, I think the worst offenders are the Rockets, Pacers, and Bucks for awkwardly shoehorning their existing logos into a circle, and the Pistons, Raptors, and Sixers for just being boring.
  11. This is really nice. My only complaint is not bringing back the San Diego colors. I know there's a touch of powder blue here and there but it doesn't stand out enough. The best part is finally having a real logo for the first time since... 1982. Holy crap, this was long overdue. Random observation, but the overall look reminds me of the Twins' uniforms. Specifically the number font and how the color scheme is used.
  12. I don't know why people refuse to blame the teams themselves when they don't like a uniform. The teams are the clients. Nike works for them and has to deliver what they want. The Commanders' uniforms suck because Dan Snyder's wife designed them herself. They would suck exactly the same if Adidas or Reebok or Under Armour was the supplier instead. Reverting back to a throwback uniform is just the current fad. And look at who's doing it. The Jets are definitely only switching to throwbacks so Woody can pander to fans while fielding the most embarrassing product in the NFL.
  13. That's not exactly true. Prices have fluctuated quite a bit over the years. Back in the NES, SNES days, you'd see $70 games because those cartridges were expensive and came with high licensing fees, and those costs were passed on to the customer. When Sony entered the market, they drove prices down for a while by pushing for CDs (a cheaper storage medium) and charging lower licensing fees. Prices didn't creep up to $60 until the Xbox 360 launched, and $70 games didn't make a comeback until this generation. Of course, I'm glossing over a lot of other factors, like how consumers didn't necessarily feel the high price of games in the '80s and '90s because it was common to just rent them from Blockbuster instead. Or how the sticker price of current games doesn't include all the paid DLC, microtransactions and such that drive the actual price of the complete game even higher. Or, on the other hand, how not every modern game launches at the maximum possible price.
  14. No wonder I've never heard of this brand before if this what they think looks good.
  15. The real golden age of Super Bowl logos was around 1993-2006. All the ones before and after that were generic except for XXI's. Looking back, the last four logos before they went standardized were already so generic, they could have been used in any host city. It almost feels like they were getting people used to the idea first before they adopted the template.
  16. People always say this, but the salary cap hasn't been much of an obstacle for dynasties at all. They're worse than they were before the cap. We just went from 20 years of the Patriots to the next 20 years of the Chiefs with no break in between. And it's just as malleable as the NBA's salary cap in practice. Look at the hoops that Saints have been jumping through to magically stay compliant every offseason for the past 12 years.
  17. He started calling nothing but pass plays in the 3rd quarter. By the time he started feeding McCaffrey again, he had already blown the lead and tired out his defense. Even then, he still called pass plays on a couple crucial 3rd & 4s that didn't work.
  18. Shanahan needs to start applying the Costanza method to his playcalling. I can't believe we're still going to have to hear about how much of a genius he is all next season. He's choked three Super Bowls and an NFC title game the exact same way and never considered changing it up.
  19. They had enough room to put the full team names instead of abbreviations next to logos that already have the same abbreviations.
  20. The new scorebug is really bad. The fonts don't even match the rest of the graphics. The team abbreviations are in plain Helvetica, almost makes it look like a glitch where the correct font didn't load.
  21. That Astros cap is amazing. The A's cap is also close to perfection, though I don't understand why they recolored the logo to make it less visible. I also love that the Brewers brought back the Beer Barrel Man, but IMO, the partial version from their TATC caps looks better on a hat than the full version. The Phillies, on the other hand... WTF were they thinking. The Giants' hat kind of sucks too, and I don't know why the Tigers' logo is so tiny.
  22. Oh, come on. Fred Durst wasn't that bad.
  23. The Pistons and Sixers are still royal and red, and I'd assume casual fans are still more likely to associate those teams with that color scheme than the Clippers. Even with the recent uptick in success, it's hard to overlook the previous decades of futility and terrible ownership in those colors.
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