New Uni Watch today

[MJWalker45]

What do you men you don't like this!? My wife picked these out for me.

[totc]

those look pretty rediculous. Pretty soon, the NBA is gonna follow the NHL with new 'Sleeker' jerseys. Maybe they will lose the shorts completely and just wear the leotards.

Like North Carolina State and Seton Hall did some years back?

(someone's got to show the mesh jersey and the lycra trou. God, that was funny!

[pooter]

Are those camo sneakers? That's perhaps the most hideous variety of crap thrown together on one players legs.

He looks like a bag lady that walks around downtown and pushes a shopping cart.

[officeglenn]

Are those camo sneakers?  That's perhaps the most hideous variety of crap thrown together on one players legs.

He looks like a bag lady that walks around downtown and pushes a shopping cart.

[Saint Zephyr III]

What if in 20 years, everyone starts wearing full-body leotards with the jerseys and shorts over them as a standard? Crap...now I'm counting down the days till it'll happens...for spite.

[NissanNut]

I just think that players are just tired of having to use lotion on their ashy legs. Why not throw on tights because they don't look as bad as ashy legs?

[Nook]

actually those aren't camo shoes.

they're huruache 2k5's with somethinkg "laser-etched" into them.

sounds stupid, but if you know shoes, you'll know what i'm talkin' about.

[brinkeguthrie]

Do it, man...do it in the butt...and then after you get busted...buy your girl a big ol ring...I mean BIG...

I LOVE YOU, MAN.

[Bucky]

I think Kobe is just trying to be different and unique and a trendsetter. It's sort of the same reason I believe he chose to wear #8 as well, because no other player in history (arguably) had really staked a definitive claim to that number, and he could picture himself making that number synonymous with 'Kobe Bryant' much the way #23 is with Jordan, #99 is with Gretzky, etc. Lebron for example,--no matter how good he turns out to be--will never have #23 to himself because of MJ.

I think Kobe sees that MJ had the left elbow wristband and the knee brace below his left knee (except early in his career when he actually wore it on his knee), and Kobe wants to be a trendsetter going forward by being remembered as the first to popularize wearing tights under his shorts.

Bucky

[Frylock]

I know this post isn't about Kobe, but it is about a pic in the Uni Watch article.

What is the deal with this picture of Lamar Odom? I swear it looks Photoshopped... Look at the hem stripes on the shorts. It just don't look right.

[goforbroke]

they left out eddy curry who i think looks the most rediculous due to his size and the fact that he wears them in white... he also has the calf warmer over the tights

in this photo you can see grant hills reaction to such a horrible uniform accessory

[McCall]

"...and I grabbed her like this, and I swear she wanted me too...."

I think that actually applies to this picture:

[VitaminD]

I think Kobe is just trying to be different and unique and a trendsetter. It's sort of the same reason I believe he chose to wear #8 as well, because no other player in history (arguably) had really staked a definitive claim to that number, and he could picture himself making that number synonymous with 'Kobe Bryant' much the way #23 is with Jordan, #99 is with Gretzky, etc.

I always heard it was because his dad wore #23, and he decided to go with 2 cubed to be 8. 2 times 3 wouldn't work, since Bill Russell and Dr. J beat him to it. There is another version saying his dad wore #8 in Italy. Or Mike D'Antoni. Either way, it's not worth the fact-checking effort right now, sorry.