Today, the Utah Jazz’s D-League affiliate officially announced that they’ll be relocating to Salt Lake City to join the NBA team in the city. As such, the Idaho Stampede will be rebranding for their arrival to SLC, and they’ll be known as the Salt Lake City Stars. So, what’s the
Category: Basketball
WNBA Uniforms Are Colourful for 20th Season
The Women’s National Basketball Association will have a colourful look throughout their 20th anniversary season this Summer. Yesterday, the league announced that every game will feature a colour vs colour uniform matchup. Each team will have two sets of uniforms, one in their primary colour and the other in their
Syracuse is set to be first double-digit seed to wear white in 2 straight NCAA Tournament Games
The 2016 NCAA Basketball Tournament has been pretty wild so far, and that’s evidenced by the fact that for the first time ever, we saw a 13, 14, and 15-seed win during the first round of the tournament. It’s been a good year to be an underdog, and it’s always
Nike Unveils 2016 Olympic Basketball Uniforms
Nike held an event yesterday in New York where they (among other things) unveiled the basketball uniforms for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held later this year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We weren’t there nor were we privy to a media kit of the unveiling, so… enjoy your bare
A Different Bracket: 2016 NCAA March Madness Circle Bracket!
If anyone out there in Sportslogos.net land has followed me on twitter, then they’ll have seen my various incarnations of the circle bracket. I first saw the idea being used for the 2010 World Cup, and have fallen in love with the format since then. It’s a much more compact and
NCAA will have new court designs for tournament games
After 8 seasons of sticking with a pretty bland and extremely standardized court design for non-Final Four NCAA Basketball Tournament games, the NCAA has finally decided to go with a new court design for tournament games. For reference, here’s what the courts for tournament games have looked like (for the
Memphis Grizzlies Adding New Jersey Next Season
As previously reported, the Memphis Grizzlies are among the new teams who will be wearing an additional uniform next season. The 2016-17 NBA season Adidas catalog lists the new uniform for the Grizzlies to be a “Pride Alternate” uniform. The catalog describes these uniforms with this paragraph: Can be more exploratory in design,
Are the Sacramento Kings going to permanently go back to powder blue?
The Sacramento Kings have been embracing their past identity a lot as of late. Despite the fact that their most successful era (an albeit brief era) in Sacramento came under the purple, black, and silver-colored banner, the Kings have been paying plenty of tribute to the days of their initial
Raptors Adding Two New Jerseys Next Season
They don’t call it “The Six” for nothing. According to a report we touched upon earlier, the Toronto Raptors will be wearing a new alternate “stretch” uniform in the 2016-17 NBA season and, as we’ve learned since, will also be wearing a throwback look (no, not that one). With their
Windy City Bulls New D-League Team, Unveils Logo
“Windy City Bulls” has been announced as the name of the new NBA D-League club playing out of Hoffman Estates, Illinois (25 miles west of Chicago), the team will be owned by the Chicago Bulls and serve as their only minor league affiliate club. The name was chosen via a name-the-team contest,
Idaho Stampede will wear special jerseys for Black History Night
The Utah Jazz’s D-League affiliate has come up with a unique way to pay tribute to prominent African-American figures of both the past and present for their upcoming Black History Night on February 20th. The Idaho Stampede will do so by wearing the faces of Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass,
Sacramento Kings unveil alternate throwback court
Yesterday we let you know that the Sacramento Kings had something up their sleeves when it came to an alternate court. I guessed that they’d be coming out with a powder-blue court design and, lo-and-behold, that appears to be the case. The court is a near-identical recreation of the opening