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[Bucky]

Let's all hope this team can bring home the gold. I think they have taken a much better approach to piecing together the team this time. It shouldn't be an all-star team, rather a bunch of players with specific skills meant to contribute in their own way--you know, like a real basketball team.

I think we finally got the message that the "Dream Team" days are long gone. Putting the most-skilled and athletic team possible on the floor doesn't equal a cakewalk to the gold nowadays.

Bucky

[1991]

here is a small photo of the new usa jerseys by nike, it looks like a cross between the gonzaga side panels and the kentucky shoulder stripes.

[leopard88]

Other than the shoulder stripes and the redundant "USA Basketball" patch, these look great. I never liked the uniforms that used the "USA Basketball" logo in the place of a wordmark.

[STL FANATIC]

Meh. They made the letters and numbers red...but they left it out of the striping. Perhaps I just can't see it though.

Right now it looks like a cheap one color templated jersey with the lettering done later.

[New_Member]

The uniforms of the main US team sports have always been kind of weak in my mind, regardless of the sport. Baseball, Basketball or Hockey. I always felt considering how dominant the US basketball team should be, a simple traditional, almost throw back jersey would kind of be cool. No need to be flashy, our play will say everything. I remember liking the USA track uniforms from either the last or second to last Olympics, with the simple navy USA across the chest.

I would like to see a mostly white jersey with that navy USA across the chest and maybe a little red on the collar and the shorts. For the road, the same, but switch the navy and white.

[TFoA]

Personally, I loved the uniforms they used at the last Olympics. As far as uniforms go, they peaked that year, IMO. So much so that I picked up Lebron's red jersey.

As for their play, it was crap. But at least they looked good while stinking it up. USA for the Gold in the WC.

[DG_ThenNowForever]

From SI.com, here's the practice squad with the new NBA ball:

[Fred T. Jane]

Other than the shoulder stripes and the redundant "USA Basketball" patch, these look great. I never liked the uniforms that used the "USA Basketball" logo in the place of a wordmark.

Hey USA Basketball, 1990 called, they want their logo back.

[totc]

From SI.com, here's the practice squad with the new NBA ball:

I give that ball a month. It's as distracting as the orange-striped football in the Blue-Gray game that Bill Veeck once introduced.

[New_Member]

From SI.com, here's the practice squad with the new NBA ball:

I give that ball a month. It's as distracting as the orange-striped football in the Blue-Gray game that Bill Veeck once introduced.

I don't think that ugly ball is the new NBA ball. The new ball has no white on it.

Plus, that ball doesn't look to be made by Spalding. I think that is the FIBA ball. Like most quirky aspects of international ball (like the altered rules), this ball sucks.

[TheStoicPaisano]

What's with all the players wearing different numbers on their practice jerseys, when they'll be between 4-15 for the tournament?

EDIT: I found the answer. Practice jerseys start with 20 and are assigned alphabetically. The players who make the cut will be assigned the regular numbers.

[TBGKon]

could the ball with white on it be a new WNBA ball?

[Dmore55]

From SI.com, here's the practice squad with the new NBA ball:

I give that ball a month. It's as distracting as the orange-striped football in the Blue-Gray game that Bill Veeck once introduced.

I don't think that ugly ball is the new NBA ball. The new ball has no white on it.

Plus, that ball doesn't look to be made by Spalding. I think that is the FIBA ball. Like most quirky aspects of international ball (like the altered rules), this ball sucks.

It doesn't say spalding it's not the nba ball, it must be a international ball. I think i've seen it on NBATV, during some italian game.

[Tazz013]

From SI.com, here's the practice squad with the new NBA ball:

That's the Molten FIBA basketball.

[MrAsterisk]

From SI.com, here's the practice squad with the new NBA ball:

That's the Molten FIBA basketball.

Seconded, for what it's worth.

[Alphabet Man]

From SI.com, here's the practice squad with the new NBA ball:

That's the Molten FIBA basketball.

Seconded, for what it's worth.

yeh its Molten balls, take a bit to get used to when they came out, i struggled to get hand positioning right for free throws with that ball,

If you take the like across and downwards (the + shape ones) you have the new Spalding NBA balls

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THe Athens uniforms were cool, i like the ones we had then, apart from te oversized number on the front.

[Bearcats]

could the ball with white on it be a new WNBA ball?

It's gold, not white. The NBL (Australia's basketball league) also uses that ball and I love it.

[MJWalker45]

The updated jerseys have the shoulder stripes in red.