Lights Out
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I don't know why people are still so hung up on the Clippers changing their name. Ballmer already said last year that it's not happening. I can tell you the fans don't want it. It would be a lot more special to finally break through and win a ring as the Clippers.
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I still don't get the league's growing fascination with plain black and white. I mean, I liked the Heat's Blackout and White Hot alternates back in the day. And the Clippers' Mister Cartoon alternates have grown on me too, although those have some subtle traces of color that enhance the look. But with Utah's disastrous rebrand, Memphis' leaked City uniforms for next season, some of the Warriors' alternates over the years, etc., it's getting to be too much. Was the Nets' rebrand really that influential? I've always found their standard uniforms to be dull as hell - not ugly per se, but more just void of any personality or fun, the NBA equivalent of this: The Nets weren't selling a lot of merchandise until recently, and even then, people are only buying it because they've had big names like KD, Kyrie and Harden, not because they love the White Label Beer aesthetic so much. So if teams like the Jazz are doing this because they think it will boost sales in any way that isn't short-term at best, they're nuts.
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The Oilers' logo is at least simple and legible at any size or angle. Pat Patriot is the worst of both worlds: overly detailed and ill-suited to a helmet.
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The problem with purple, IMO, is that the Lakers, Kings, Suns and Hornets are all already using it and in an ideal world, the Raptors would bring it back too. Purple is a fine color, but we don't need 20% of the league all heavily featuring the same color. Meanwhile, the Jazz's '90s color scheme without purple would be one of the most unique color schemes not only in the NBA, but across sports in general.
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LOL, I see this opinion is deeply unpopular. I'm still standing by it. Pat Patriot is an illustration, not a logo, and it's too detailed, too vertical, and not horizontal enough to look good on a helmet. It's inferior not only to the Flying Elvis, but also to the rejected 1978 prototypes and the 1960 tri-quarter hat logo. The uniforms in general look more like Ole Miss, LaTech or FAU than a professional football team, and they're mostly associated with decades of heartbreak and futility on the field. And the specific version of that look they always choose to throw back to isn't even the best one in my opinion (I prefer the 1967-69 version). I've said it many times, but the 1993 uniforms were the best the Patriots ever looked and they made a big mistake by ever changing them. Even the red numbers on the home jersey would have stopped being as much of an issue once everything switched over to HDTV.
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I still think the Jazz should try copper as the primary color. Earth tones are kind of underutilized in sports and a copper-centric look would be both distinctive and appropriate for the market.
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The helmet logo is clunky and awkward, and WVU just looks better in blue helmets rather than white.
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The throwbacks still suck no matter how many times the Patriots drag them out of mothballs.
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The helmet sucks, but everything else is pretty nice. The "country roads" theme is clever.
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They literally just recolored the previous uniforms and called it a day. The striping is the same. Lazy, lazy, lazy. I love how the entire marketing campaign is "Purple is Back!" and the actual new uniforms are being hidden as much as possible.
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This Cavs rebrand is horrible. Just switch to brown and orange and promote the 2K League logo to the big-league club, it's not hard.
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Their 2K League team's logo is better since it actually depicts a cavalier (and because "team name over basketball" logos are so played out in the NBA) but it is still better than the current logo. For me, it's "The Second Coming" by Jewelz Santana. So glorious... victorious!
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Can't say I agree. Those are just recolored Showtime Lakers uniforms with half the stripes chopped off and an odd-looking wordmark that doesn't match anything else in their identity.
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The most disappointing part is how the 2K League of all things has better logos than some of the actual teams.
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As far as the draft hats are concerned, literally anything is better than the bootleg gas station hats that Adidas was putting out in the late 2000s. I'm pretty sure the target audience for these things was the same demographic that only watches college basketball because "they play defense, unlike the NBA."
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Just like the Finals last year, they actually had to face a fully healthy opponent for once. Can't always duck the top players.
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I don't think that opinion is particularly unpopular. It's my favorite Broncos look too (also minus the helmet).
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Totally agree that Akron's new look is dull, dull, dull. They've had one of the worst brands in college sports ever since they made the Z logo their primary in 2015, and this isn't helping.
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Both names are already representative of LA despite the fact that they originated elsewhere. Lakers and clippers are types of ships and LA is home to America's busiest seaport. I don't blame people for not making the connection, though, because both teams use generic create-a-team logos that have nothing to do with their names. As far as a name change is concerned: as a Clippers fan, I'm strongly against it, and I think most of the fanbase agrees. Winning our first championship as the Clippers would be a trillion times more special than doing it as the Stars or some other expansion team-tier name because of the rough history that we'd presumably be changing the name to get away from. Does anyone think the 2016 Cubs' championship would have been anywhere near as big of a deal if they had won it as, like, the Chicago Wind or something? I didn't think so. Change the colors, change the logos, but keep the name intact would be my choice.
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And with a worse logo, too. Sorry, not sorry.
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NBA Gleague Ignite Unveils Electric New Brand Identity
Lights Out replied to TaylorMade's topic in Sports Logo News
Would have made a nice logo for the Thunder. -
I still think this was their best identity by a long shot... but in hindsight, I think a more industrial-looking teal/grey color would have worked better in place of red, like in this concept I made a few years ago:
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I agree that their brand was fine without it, but it doesn't mean there can't be a place for it. For better or worse, it's part of the Mets' history now (especially since they went to a World Series in the BFBS era) and totally valid to throw back to. It's probably best to think of it like a third jersey in hockey or a clash jersey in soccer rather than a traditional baseball alternate.
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I think BFBS adds a lot to the Mets' identity purely as an alternate look. It really captures that "NYC at night" feeling. Where the Mets went wrong the first time around was cramming black trim into their regular home and road jerseys, where it added nothing and only detracted from the bold color scheme and classic design. It looked particularly bad on the white and pinstripe jerseys because the drop shadows actually hurt the legibility of the script and the NOBs. They aren't repeating that mistake this time around, so it's not a problem, IMO.
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Since the Mets have settled back into BFBS, I still really want to see this jersey make a comeback next: I know it was just a templated batting practice jersey at the time, but it's good enough to be a full-time look and actually better than the black jerseys, IMO. Almost like a mix of eras since the striping isn't far removed from the racing stripes they wore in the '80s. I always loved how the black script and numbers popped off the blue base. One of those things that had no business working as well as it did.
