The Utah Jazz today announced that their home arena, EnergySolutions Arena (originally the Delta Center) will be re-named the Vivint Smart Home Arena effective immediately. This marks the third name in the quarter-century history of Salt Lake City’s main entertainment venue, the naming rights agreement with Vivint is set to run
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NBA on TNT Logo Gets Metallic Makeover
NBA basketball broadcasts on U.S. television station TNT will have a much more metallic look than in years past. The network unveiled it’s new logo for use during NBA games during the upcoming 2015-16 season, the logo, now in a rectangle features a metallic pattern in the background as well as
Adidas gives Miami basketball a weird waist stripe for their new uniforms
A while back, we got a look at Michigan’s newest basketball uniforms for this upcoming season, and they included an interesting quirk: A broad stripe below the waistband. If you were part of the camp that was hoping that this would just be a design quirk unique to Michigan, then
Cavs unveil three alternate uniforms, including black sleeved alternate
Earlier today, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert posted three hilariously awful uniform designs on his twitter page. However, because of the state of uniform design in the NBA in the present-day, this caused enough people to believe that this could’ve been a legit surprise. Shortly afterwards, the Cavs officially unveiled
West Says Jordan is his Preferred NBA Logoman Replacement
The National Basketball Association’s reigning “logoman” for the past 40 years, Jerry West, has picked his preferred logo successor. It’s hard to argue with his choice. “Michael Jordan has been the greatest player I’ve ever seen… he would be a wonderful person to have there” – Jerry West Anyone who
Clippers black alternate jersey confirmed to exist
If you’re in the loop for NBA jersey news, then you probably know that in a world of badly-kept NBA uniform secrets, the Clippers’ black alternate uniform is one of the worst kept secrets in the league. Mockups have been floating around ever since the entire ill-advised Clippers rebrand was
San Antonio Spurs officially reveal “Signature Spur” jersey
After teasing the unveiling of a new jersey earlier this week, the San Antonio Spurs have gone ahead and officially revealed their newest alternate jersey. As usual with this sort of thing, the Spurs made sure to give us a nice explanation as to why they decided to come up
Sixers take passive-aggressive shot at Wells Fargo with logo placement on court
In case you may have missed it, the Philadelphia 76ers and Wells Fargo are currently have beef with each other. Wells Fargo recently withdrew their sponsorship of the team, and the Sixers are none-too-pleased with this development. As such, the Sixers have decided to refuse to acknowledge the fact that
Sleeved Cavs alternate jersey gets leaked
Once again, the magical NBA catalog leak has proven to be true, as we’ve ended up getting a closer look at the Cleveland Cavaliers’ new sleeved alternate for this upcoming season. There’s no word on when this jersey will be unveiled, but you had to figure that any team that
Spurs tease new alternate jersey via vine
The Spurs have something in store uniform-wise, and they decided to give the fans a small taste of what’s to come by posting a slick vine that gives us just enough information to chew on before the unveiling. However, if you’re the type of person who enjoys spoilers, then you
Auburn and Cincinnati, among others, will unveil Under Armour basketball unis soon
There’s going to be a pretty big unveiling for Under Armour’s basketball schools on October 16th, and the Auburn Tigers and the Cincinnati Bearcats figure to be the two biggest schools involved here. There isn’t too much news here, but we did get a few teaser images from Clint Richardson
North Carolina Tar Heels will wear black basketball uniforms in Brooklyn
While their fierce rivals across Tobacco Road have been wearing black uniforms as alternates off an on for the better part of two decades now, the North Carolina Tar Heels have normally stuck with powder blue and white for uniform colors. That will be changing this December during the CBS