Exclusive Breaking: Blazers to preview two of the new Nike uniforms this weekend

#1 - Early 80s with the two stripes.
#2 - Late 70s.
#3 - Early 70s.
#4 - 2017

 

These were COLD.

 

I really liked these:

 

http://nba.nbcsports.com/2017/09/18/ranking-the-nike-statement-jerseys-for-every-nba-team/

The Openly Awful

Portland Trail Blazers: It’s pretty hard to find a way to mess up a red and black jersey, but the Blazers did it this year. It’s a double whammy given that Portland took the best alternate jersey in the league from last season and turned it into the worst. This uniform literally has tire tracks on the side of it. Hard pass.

 

I unfortunately agree.

 

Mmmmm, kinda. The only ones that are "patently dope" are the Sixers and Nuggets. Bulls and Celtics are boring as fuck. Bucks and Rockets are trash. Hornets are pretty good.

Warriors isn't just boring, it's bad. Really bad.

Jazz somehow succeed where Spurs fail.

But the biggest takeaway is that they're almost all boring (at best). At least we tried to do something interesting.

Ours are still some of the best ones in the league - but the details were all screwed up. Biggest fuck up is the lack of proportions with the 5 stripes, resulting in the "tire track". Easy fix - make it two stripes like the early 80s (you can even do black on grey). Might work, might not - keep the proportions of the pinwheel lines intact. Stick the upper point of the pinwheel in the armpit so that the top edge of the pinwheel runs down the vertical seam and the 5 pinwheel arms cut diagonally across so that when tucked in there isn't a sash effect, but rather the entire lower half is diagonal pinwheel stripes that retain their proportions. Personally I'd go with two black on grey stripes. Fix a few other minor details (banding around the arms) and they could be great.

 

The Five Worst

#3: Trail Blazers:
Too bad the Blazers weren't among the teams that stuck with their existing alternates. The new version eliminates all the white and silver trim, causing major legibility issues. A rare misstep for a franchise that usually gets these things right.

 

How bad does your uniform need to be when the company who has paid millions of dollars to show your games outright trash your uniforms?

 

Anyone with 30 minutes of design school can see how bad they are haha

 

False. I have a fucking art degree and love them. People need to stop trying to think for everyone else. We all have opinions and that is fine. No need to devalue the opinions of others: nothing is an absolute.

 

At some point they have to realize who their audience is. These are PRODUCTS and there's a reason Thomas Kincaid sells more prints than Kazimir Malevich.

 

Liked just for the references. I'm glad they aren't going the Kincaid route. Holy God.

 

They should've gone Lisa Frank.

 

Tom Hardy....haha

 

Quoted for TRUTH.

 

LOL. You meant Ed, right?

 

Haha. Shows how much I know kitch shit.

 

And that's fine if you like them. But I'll take any of our other red jerseys over these.

 

Why not just go back to these? Fresh, clean, and actually doesn't look like tire tracks ... crazy, I know!