We got our first look at the new 2017 NBA All-Star Game uniforms earlier today and the sponsor patch for KIA is making a return. This isn’t much of a surprise as the agreement the league made with KIA to have their logo appear on NBA All-Star jerseys was announced last
Category: Basketball
The NBA should make color-on-color matchups official
If you’ve watched your fair share of basketball for the past couple of years (and this year in particular), you’ve probably noticed that the NBA has gotten a little lax about the home team wearing white at home and colors on the road. It’s not just the teams with “trendy”
A Chat About Professional Sports Trademark Disputes
If you’re a fan of both sports logos and trademark disputes has this ever been the month for you. No fewer than two trademark disputes involving major league sports teams came to light during the first half of December. The NHL’s shiny new Vegas Golden Knights had their trademark “refused” by the
Erie BayHawks Will Relocate to Florida Next Season
The NBA D-League’s Erie BayHawks have been purchased by the Orlando Magic and will relocate to Lakeland, Florida for the 2017-18 season the league and team announced earlier today. Lakeland, Florida is within an hours drive of Orlando allowing the team to keep their reserve players nearby, a strategy employed in
NCAA Drops Template, Unveils 2018 Final Four Logo
It appears the template introduced by the NCAA for its logos two years ago is no more — the 2018 Men’s Final Four logo, unveiled yesterday, has broken itself out of the mould in a slick new mark designed by Joe Bosack. It’s not yet clear if this template break
Oklahoma City Thunder quietly drop navy alternates
The sea of “interesting” — if not flat-out ugly — NBA alternate uniforms just lost one of its biggest fish. Per Erik Horne of The Oklahoman, the Thunder have decided that it’s time to drop their navy alternate from their rather diverse set of uniforms. As a result, the Thunder
Atlanta Hawks will have local NBA D-League team
Following in the footsteps of other competent NBA teams who are serious about player development, the Atlanta Hawks announced that they will be putting an NBA D-League team in their own backyard. The team will start play in 2019 and will be based in nearby College Park, GA with a
Miami Heat honor local fallen soldiers with Home Strong alternates
Last season, the Miami Heat unveiled their “Home Strong” military appreciation alternate uniform as part of a set of three different alternate uniforms. Aesthetically, it was the worst-looking of the three uniforms, but these uniforms at least had a special and significant meaning behind them, so it made the use
Seasons Greetings: 2016 NBA Christmas Day Uniforms Released
Christmas has come early in the NBA world! Earlier today, NBA Store released the 2016 NBA Christmas Day apparel collection, including the uniforms to be worn by the teams playing on December 25th and also a selection of uniforms available for teams that will never take the court in the
D-League: Windy City Bulls Unveil Uniforms
NBA D-League expansion team, the Windy City Bulls, top level affiliate of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls, unveiled their new uniforms earlier today via an e-mailed press release. Designed by Chicago Bulls Creative Services just as the logo was, the uniforms share the overall idea of the design with their NBA cousins. Red on
Sports Logo Pumpkin Carving Gallery
Pumpkins. Carving them has turned into a tradition, especially around this time of year it seems. Sometimes people carve faces, sometimes people carve sports logos. Logos can be tricky to carve into a pumpkin — it requires patience, a stencil (quite easily attainable via a Google search, for example: here’s a
Pic: Raptors Set to Unveil A Throwback Court?
It’s the 70th anniversary of the first season of what is now known as the National Basketball Association, the first game of that that first season was played in Toronto between the New York Knicks and the long defunct Toronto Huskies. The Raptors, Toronto’s modern-day NBA franchise, has acknowledged the Huskies several