NBA Changes 2013-14 Season

[suns1977]

A little red-orange goes a long way in improving the Thunder's alternates:

Holy crap, that looks good.

Nicely done, DustDevil61!

[eRay]

Atleast there arent sleeves...

No, there are. Adidas' new wood panel sleeves. Word is, 12 teams will adopt them for next year already.

[habsfan1]

A little red-orange goes a long way in improving the Thunder's alternates:

You should color it in current road jersey colors: royal base, navy stripe & red/white trim.

[JPDesign]

The justification for "los bulls," etc is that team names are considered proper names in Hispanic communities and therefore that's what they say. In that case, however, shouldn't "New York" be considered a proper name, or do they actually say "Nueva York?"

No, because Nueva York is how hispanics refer to New York. Just as Americans refer to it as Spain, and not España.

However, the team name is an american name on purpose. We don't call "Real Madrid" Royal Madrid, even though that's what it translates to. The Los is just the spanish addition of "the," just as colloquially we add "The" to the beginning of team names.

All that to explain what I believe to be their justification...but in the end, it would just be a lot cooler to see a Chicago Toros jersey than a Los Bulls one.

[C's]

I like the idea of a navy alt for the Pistons. That red alt was an eyesore. I'll reserve full judgment until I see the whole thing though. If they do something stupid like put a logo on the front in place of a wordmark then all bets are off.

[phutmasterflex]

I loved the number font on the teal Pistons jersey. Everything else was awful though.

You mean the flaming horse doesn't do it for you? LOL

Agreed, these are awful. I can't even focus on the numbers, the rest just gets in the way.

Back to the navy alts. Like others have said, I don't know why the obsession with more blue on top of what you already have.

Only navy alt I like is the OKC faux-retro alt and I know I'm apparently in the minority on that one.

A little red-orange goes a long way in improving the Thunder's alternates:

Wow, what a difference!

That does make a difference. But, at the same time I feel I shouldn't like it ...

Pistons just tweeted this photo:

with this text: "Hmmm … why does @M10OSE have three #Pistons jerseys in his locker? Find out tomorrow!"

Looks like the alt uni will be navy...booooooooring.

Eh, looks alright, but nothing special. Would have rather seen the return of the red ones from the middle part of the last decade; I still have no idea why they were discontinued in the first place.

Agreed. Red shouldn't have gone (how much do you want to bet their sleeved jersey is red?). The side panels on that alt look different. I wonder if the front will be a different design? Something like a Spurs alt with a picture logo? (hope not). Oh the speculation.

The rumor is it will have "Motor City" on the front, which seems possible from the #motorcity hashtag in the tweet.

That is very possible. Didn't the Blazers have Rip City on one of their alts? Could be new wave for marketing merchandise sales

[jordub]

Those Pistons alts are going to be awful. Don't understand navy. At least Josh Smith will look like he's still in ATL?

[AAO]

I hope it's not just navy, red and white. They need that primary Piston blue in there. Side paneling also looks different than the home and roads.

Bring back the blazing horse logo.

[TaylorMade]

That is very possible. Didn't the Blazers have Rip City on one of their alts? Could be new wave for marketing merchandise sales

[YessSir32]

At first glance I was praying the Monroe made team USA, so there wouldn't be any navy alts, but oh well. The number fonts are clearly the same.

Now we can only hope for their primary blue and the horse on the front.

[Shadojoker]

First of all those pistons jerseys are aight at best..not horrible but from behind not anything too different. Secondly, if the Thunder just added that splash of red orange then those jerseys would OWN!!

[swilson160]

Maybe the Pistons will go with a top/bottom wordmark on the front, either Detroit on top and Pistons below, or Motor on top and City below, with the number in between. There's precedent.

[hbgoo1975]

Agreed. Hated that Seattle set.

Also, (unpopular opinion alert) I think the Thunder's set is one of the best in the league. The logo still sucks, but the colors and uniforms are solid.

I couldn't stand those atrocious red uniforms! The final Sonics uniforms were TEN TIMES better!!

[jhans203]

Maybe the Pistons will go with a top/bottom wordmark on the front, either Detroit on top and Pistons below, or Motor on top and City below, with the number in between. There's precedent.

Nah, that won't happen, because that makes too much sense. My money is on the Motor City jersey. Ugh.

[Wilt]

Pistons just tweeted this photo:

with this text: "Hmmm … why does @M10OSE have three #Pistons jerseys in his locker? Find out tomorrow!"

Looks like the alt uni will be navy...booooooooring.

Nothing says "We're an NBA team, and we stand out!" like adopting a second blue jersey.

Adopting a secondary blue color to an unnecessary alternate jersey. Sounds like the Thunder to me

Dallas, Memphis and Denver (luckily they ditched it already) also had two different blue jerseys. It seems like the trend spreads out of Midwest.

EDIT: My idea of Midwest was in the shape of 90's NBA Division but after the google search I realized that Michigan is more Midwest than Texas/Colorado/Oklahoma.

[Old School Fool]

There was nothing wrong with the red alternate the Pistons had. This is stupid.

[Saintsfan]

NM.

[tigerslionspistonshabs]

I haven't heard anything from any Pistons insiders. However, they hash-tagged it with 'Motor City'. That would be my guess what's on the front.

[Conrad.]

ugh. i don't like the idea of "Motor City" on the front, but i suppose that's slightly better than putting the DP alt logo on the front, ala the Spurs alt uni.

i'd prefer the

DETROIT

#

PISTONS

setup on the front, but it seems unlikely.

EDIT: i'd love the paneling in the alt uni to be like this (continued to the armhole, of course):

[eliasrappaport]

My only guess is that this is gonna be supper Detroit patriotic due to the recent struggles there. Maybe it will have the old horse or say "motor city to get the fan base excited? Who knows.