Today, the National Basketball Association and its Player’s Association announced that the number six, that of all-time great Bill Russell, will be retired league-wide, beginning with the 2022-23 season. The honour will be grandfathered into the league; any players who currently wear the number six can continue to do so
Tag: boston celtics
2022 NBA Finals Uniform Schedule: Celtics vs Warriors
The uniform schedule for the upcoming 2022 NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors has been released by the NBA. It shows a mix of traditional home vs road (“Icon” vs “Association”) games with a few matches featuring one of either team’s black alternate uniforms. Take a
Celtics Wear “TOMMY” Patch on Jerseys for 2020-21 Opener
The Boston Celtics debuted a special memorial patch on their green Icon jerseys for their 2020-2021 season opener last night against the Milwaukee Bucks. A black band which read “TOMMY” in white block lettering, the tribute was done so in honour of Tommy Heinsohn, a former Celtics player, coach, and
Artist Creates Disney Versions of NBA Logos
With the National Basketball Association getting set to resume their 2019-20 season at Disney World in Orlando, one artist is taking the opportunity to transform the league’s logos into a whole new world. PKAirDesigns, a self-described “artist and sneakerhead” based out of Melbourne, Australia has mashed up our favourite NBA
LEAK: Boston Celtics New City Uniform for 2020
Imagine starting out with a new team, you’re just a few games into your new two-year deal with them, and then you leak their brand new, still unreleased, jersey to the world? ? Enes Kanter’s Instagram account did just that earlier today with the new Boston Celtics “City Edition” uniform
NBA Unveils New Earned Uniform for 16 Teams
The National Basketball Association and Nike today unveiled the sixteen new alternate “Earned” uniforms that’ll be worn between Christmas and the end of the season by teams that qualified for the playoffs last season. The idea is that the teams “earned” the honour of getting an additional (fifth!) uniform option
Leaks Show New Unis for Houston Rockets, Boston Celtics
Two more leaks out of the National Basketball Association this week as they get set to unveil their league-wide slate of “City Edition” uniforms. The first leak, posted to Reddit, shows the City Edition uniform of the Houston Rockets who once again are going with Chinese characters across the front:
NBA Deciding Uniform Schedules for Each Team
The days of player preference or superstition playing a role in uniform choices appear to be over in the National Basketball Association. This past week, courtesy a fantastic article in the Boston Herald, we learned the league and Nike are both calling the shots when it comes to which of
NBA 2K18 Screencaps Give Peek at In-Game Ads, Swoosh
Upcoming video game NBA 2k18 released its first set of screenshots today promoting the game and with it, gave us an idea of how these jersey ads both the Nike swoosh and the individual team deals will look on the court. Three screenshots were released, one of Boston’s Isaiah Thomas,
Celtics Announce GE Advertisement on Jersey in 2017-18
Here’s another reminder that the inevitable day is about to arrive pretty soon. There were already a couple of NBA teams who were getting ready for this watershed moment in North American uniform history, but a pretty huge domino in the uniform world has fallen now. The Boston Celtics are
NBA and Stance begin to reveal team-colored socks for upcoming season
Earlier in the offseason, we shared the news that Stance would become the official sock supplier of the NBA. With this news came the intriguing development that Stance would also make sure that the teams would wear socks that were designed with each team’s colors, instead of the traditional black
Best, Worst New Logos of 2014: SportsLogos.Net Readers’ Choice Awards
As we get set to enter the year of hover boards, self-lacing sneakers, and a Chicago Cubs World Series Championship we must first look back on the current year… 2014, which was my 18th running SportsLogos.Net. Overall 2014 was a rather uneventful year when it came to major re-brandings in the big