Uniforms—Logos—Court Designs—Socks—Sneakers—Headbands—Mouthguards

Just a general thread to talk about any of those things.

Sources: NBA owners expected to pass rule allowing ads on jerseys
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RO7XvUr099IiC4oft.rEEQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztxPTg1O3c9NjMw/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/sports/2015-12-03/58ebb560-99de-11e5-818d-037755d74b4b_adidas-NBA-All-Star-West-Jersey-Front-H.jpg

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15191055/nba-owners-expected-pass-rule-allowing-ads-jerseys-2017-18-season

this is now a thing
https://content.nike.com/content/dam/one-nike/en_us/season-2016-sp/Shop/Launch/04-2016/nike-basketball-elite-series-collection/KD8-ELITE-ON-COURT-PAIR.jpg.transform/default/image.jpg

or it will be as of sometime this week

apparently the sock-esque protuberance is a "calf-length compression sleeve" that i guess is built into these shoes

yeah durant wore them for warmups but hasn't warn them in a game yet iirc
http://images.solecollector.com/complex/image/upload/t_in_content_image/nike-kd-8-high-creamsicle-4_o4khoj.jpg

Wouldn't that cause more knee injuries / wear+tear?

not sure why it would? just socks more or less.

I remember reading somewhere that the more you immobilize the ankles, the more stress goes into the knees. So if they're just compression socks, maybe not?

this is going to end with players in full body compression iron man/ greenscreen suits up to their necks and in 2023 some young hotshot will start covering his head and then THAT'S gonna be a thing

durant looks like a double amputee there

logo patch approved. supposedly gonna bring an extra 100 milli + in per year.

BREAKING: Adam Silver said it's likely Hornets will have Brand Jordan logo on jerseys in 2017-18, not the Nike logo like rest of league.

love my brands

94 rookie game jersey is tite

http://i.imgur.com/fYJ9uJE.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgGqXC7WsAAtpWs.jpg

dubs shd go to a white vers of these for their home unis then have yellow road ones sans illustrations that say "the bay" imo

http://i.imgur.com/SJCV7hq.jpg

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15269948/an-depth-look-nba-jerseys-full-advertising

hehe

http://a2.espncdn.com/i/infographics/20160419_nbasponsors/nba_0419_sponsorwest_nuggets.png

http://a2.espncdn.com/i/infographics/20160419_nbasponsors/nba_0419_sponsorwest_clippers.png

cryin

http://news.sportslogos.net/2016/04/23/new-sacramento-kings-logo-leaked/

wow p nice imo

Font is ugly but otherwise looks pretty good IMO.

im kinda feeling the font tho wldve been better if they went all the way blocky for that 8-bit look

http://i.imgur.com/vXym9Z2.gif

The crown is hella bizarre to me

its supposed to depict depth but just ends up looking weird and abstract

file under inspired by stussy

http://i.imgur.com/aQqF3l9.png

unbelievable, they wearing them at home too!

that crown reminds me of

http://i.imgur.com/qmzMUij.jpg

appropriate to the kings basketball organisation

with the full name, i like it but with just "SAC" it looks a bit like a distended testicle and once seen that cannot be unseen

buzz city

pls stop

Really like the color scheme of the buzz city unis. Actually like everything about those minus the sleeves and the fact that they say buzz city.

guy who doesn't live in Charlotte: hey I'm thinking of visiting Charlotte, what's the most notable thing about your town
Charlotte guy: we have so many bees that we call it buzz city. We love our fantastic bees.

Bees are v important haven't u heard they are all dying

its official

http://www.nba.com/kings/NewLogo

nice, i like it a lot more with the white outline

interested to see what they come up w for unis

yeah it makes way more sense with the white outline. i thought the crown looked random as fuck otherwise.

http://i.imgur.com/cYsXmUL.png

Very nice! I mean the logo, not the tattoos.

lol http://newsok.com/article/5495252

russ is so weird

the weirdest

cn we talk abt those uniforms for a sec theyre like the least basketball uniform uniforms ever they look like a white tee, i think they shd go all the way w it tho all white except team/name/number

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CheG_TyUoAAXmEU.jpg

lmao love it, they should all wear damn daniels with it as well

those white ones are prob the best okc unis but the stripes on the pants are nonsensical. it's like someone designed good uniforms and was like "wait these are for okc they have to be hideous in some way"

those road blues are horrible too

Still one of the wildest basketball products with an incredible tagline. 😂😂😂😂😂

Soak it up! pic.twitter.com/XkbV1A0WWP

— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) August 20, 2024

crawford looks like they just told him the tagline

Eddy Curry looks like he's turning around to look at the dude who put this weird headband on him.

cooper flagg to celtics in territorial draft lol

Cooper Flagg, The Intelligent Choice. pic.twitter.com/JvvvMM9lfm

— New Balance (@newbalance) August 26, 2024

nba players association court?

Jaylen Brown in the gym with Paige Bueckers and Steph Curry 😮‍💨

pic.twitter.com/pEZjDGFlTa

— CelticsUnite (@CelticsUnite18) September 7, 2024

65 Foot practice court with two spalding A10 arena back stop goals and one G5 portable back stop goal.

https://nbpa.com/events#amenities

smh

Every 2024-25 NBA City Edition Nike Jersey, a thread ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/mntAhtR4Cj

— Nice Kicks (@nicekicks) September 17, 2024

the celtics one is so bad i refuse to believe this is real

heat culture back but reversed lmaoooo
lake show....
vintage raptor back but in the worst way possible
indy back but worse
what is minny doing?
weird knicks one back but just changed colors

good/semi-good ones are:

memphis
hawks maybe depending how the do the shorts
pistons
sixers
bucks
kings
jazz i guess

somewhat intrigued by the warriors one... is there supposed to be a number in the middle of that circle or?

these are so bad feel like they shouldve just gone with AI generated ones that have weird fake letters inserted into the names

the renders are even low qual

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXth_8_akAA3qeo?format=jpg&name=medium

look at this shit lmao

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXtizknaUAA5qHf?format=jpg&name=medium

gradients are back baby

unfathomable how bad those two are

the nuggets one ;_;

why do they do this

some of them just straight up do not look like basketball jersey wtf is this i have no idea

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXthzr5akAEXZbm?format=jpg&name=medium

all teams should just switch to t-shirts that say 'basketball' on the front

they dont need to even all be the same color, its too boring to wear the same shirt as everyone else

then they can drop the 'hoops' alternate t-shirt which will have the word '(basketball)' underneath just in case ppl dont know that hoops refers to basketball

this is the sort of innovation the league needs

The Bucks looks like it has a depressing line graph of their win totals over the past few and next few years lol

lollll yeah... trending down

Hornets are good but are essentially just a throwback. Sixers probably the best one but Kings get an A for simplicity, other teams should be taking notes. And fp me if you must but i kinda like the nuggets?? kinda curious to see what the numbers look like anyway.

Celtics is the true ;_;

nuggets looking like predators view
https://bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/predator-vision.png

might be cool if the champs got a special trophy jersey every year, as long as were doing a million different jerseys

What Celtics fans wanted vs what we got 😭😭 pls do something @celtics pic.twitter.com/rzekvItGd3

— Boston 16-3 🏆 64-18 ☘️ (@CelticsIn_5) September 18, 2024

still cant believe those celtics jerseys lol profoundly discount rack looking shit

even as the city jerseys got really ugly aesthetically i at least still understood the concept behind the endeavor. these just feel like nike has completely given up on the entire idea and i think they should just kill it and come up w/ a new scheme to sell alternate jerseys

yeah something about the process is clearly broken theres no reason that the famous nike company cant design some at least decent jerseys, maybe they should go with fan contests, theres a million speculative jersey designs floating around on the internet almost all of which while maybe not good are better than this years actual celtics jersey, they could ask for submissions pick five of them and let people vote, itd be a fun thing thatd prob result in a goofy ass selection thatd be better than whatever were getting now

or they could just stop it with this shit altogether which is what i would do

i would settle for just using the team colors and having the team name on it i guess, or being a throwback is fine too throwbacks are fun

these are pretty tight but i wouldve gone with a boxing robe

The Celtics will be wearing these warmup jackets on Opening Night pic.twitter.com/3mdSDLg8jH

— Ian Inangelo (@iinangelo) September 19, 2024

inspired by jaylen browns connection to numbers and frequencies

Jaylen Brown just dropped his new sneaker AND a new sneaker company

Meet 741:https://t.co/cZaomaU4rj pic.twitter.com/3K5aVWOkWU

— Cameron Tabatabaie (@CTabatabaie) September 24, 2024

i forgot about the fucked up in season tourney courts. they’ve got the heat playing in a pool of piss. great stuff

Getting a new look for this year’s HEAT In-Season Tournament 👀 pic.twitter.com/mPVPqLxEne

— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) October 24, 2024

lol i forgot about the nba cup

it’s true the trophies in the paint look like diving boards into the piss pool

at least the stripe is gone i didnt like the stripe

Piss vs Stripes - the NBA Cup

ah theres a bunch of cutesy stuff in there too very storytelling how brand ambassador

The fully painted courts come with a league-wide theme of three concentric circles radiating from center court in tonal hues of a team’s core color, but it’s the artistic “wallpaper” that covers the entirety of the court in a 30% opacity—a nod to the NBA’s 30 teams—that allowed each team their own take on the design, whether a logo, wordmark, cityscape or unique element that ties to the city, such as a bed of roses in Portland or a forest for Minnesota.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timnewcomb/2024/10/24/nba-cup-courts-make-a-statement/

lmao the celtics motif is parquet a homage to their normal court

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gaqw6oUXEAY_iVg?format=png&name=medium

DYING at 30% opacity to match the number of NBA teams lmaoooo

some real next level galaxy brain fluff

impossible to overestimate how much suits love shit like that

yeah they all get so fucking hard for any design element that “nods to” the past

the idea of making something that looks good is way too abstract

feel like its just an endless loop of c suite presentations like this
https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM2I1dmlzY21yaGN6ejllaW03c3BmY3Rwcmw1cnNlbjRteXk3bDkycSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/800iiDTaNNFOwytONV/giphy.gif

lmao

Culvers x Giannis pic.twitter.com/MTIZsF2MZN

— Nathan Marzion (@nathanmarzion) November 18, 2024

that Lakers Cup court is hard to look at

They are all hard to look at. My wife, not a bb fan, saw the Sixers court and was like, "what is up with the court, I can barely see what is going on".