Pretty soon Nike’s going to have as many holidays as your local bank. While Easter is certainly a tip-top time to celebrate, it hasn’t long been known as a basketball day. Nike wants to change that up a bit this March 31, offering new designs for its three signature shoes.
Category: NBA
Lakers Add Jerry Buss Memorial Patch
The Los Angeles Lakers have unveiled the patch that is being added to their jerseys, in order to honor their owner, Jerry Buss, who died Monday at the age of 80. The patch is simple, featuring the owner’s initials JB in yellow on a purple patch, outlines in black. The
A Preview of Ads on NBA Jerseys?
In case everyone forgot, back in July the NBA temporarily approved the use of small advertisement patches (they later decided to hold off on this plan and take another look at it in the future) on in-game team jerseys starting with the 2013-14 season. As JR wrote for us back when
Inspector Logo Presents: A Look at Equipment in Logos
Here at the Worldwide Sports Logos Headquarters, we have many leather-bound books full of league logos and our conference room smells of rich mahogany. Sometimes, in between heated discussions over the merits of new logos, or how far into the depth of sport we are willing to go, tracking new alt uniforms, we
Nike Designer Discusses Remaking Famed Alien Logo Raygun
There’s life in outer space. Or, at least in Nike’s fictional Area 72. As Nike shoe designers had fun creating an extraterrestrial world to base a trio of signatures shoes for Kobe, Lebron and KD on ahead of the Feb. 15-17 NBA All-Star weekend, they also had a good time
Golden St Warriors Add Sleeves to Jerseys!
In the historic modern era of basketball, uniforms consisted of shorts and tanktops. The Golden State Warriors are busting up that tradition, by releasing an alternate uniform design whose biggest design feature is what all the rest of our shirts have; sleeves. Throughout the years, the shorts have gotten longer, socks
Jordan Brand Cozies Up to Black Lights for All-Star Weekend
The Jordan Brand night vision line gets a bit more “stealth” come All-Star weekend. While the main Nike brand unveiled alienesque designs, the Jordan look features UV ink throughout the shoe upper that illuminates when viewed under black light. While anchored by Russell Westbrook’s Jordan XX8, released in December, a
Anti-Commercialism Anthem a Commercial for NBA All Star Game
Macklemore has burst onto the music scene with a popular album, a hot 100 and double platinum single with Thrift shop. His album is popular partially because of the messages within. Pro marriage equality, avoiding peer-pressure, and most evidently: Anti-commercialism. He has several songs that speak about being self-confident and
NBA Throwbacks Give us ’90s Designs
Forget about throwing all the way back to the ‘70s. Or even ‘80s. The NBA is tossing its uniform set back just a little less. Think of it more as a free throw, instead of a three-pointer. It’s time for the ‘90s. This year’s NBA Hardwood Classics nights, now a
New Orleans Hornets Rebrand as Pelicans, Unveil New Logos
Ladies and gentlemen, your New Orleans Pelicans! The New Orleans Hornets will be changing their name to the New Orleans Pelicans effective the beginning of the 2013-14 NBA season. Ending months of speculation and all sorts of leaks the club sorta finally made it all official via a leaked video
New Orleans Pelicans Logo Leaked?
And we’d like to make that question mark as big as possible in the headline please. According to a poster on TigerDroppings.com, one who had previously posted “insider information” which later turned out to be accurate, the image you see above will be one of the new logos for the
Hornets to Unveil New Name, Logos Tomorrow
According to a Tweet from New Orleans Hornets Spanish-language broadcaster Emilio Peralta, the team will hold a press conference tomorrow afternoon at 4pm ET (3pm local time) to announce the team will be re-named the New Orleans Pelicans and also unveil the new logos and uniforms. The now deleted tweet,