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[J_Posse]

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Not feeling the Spurs new black (3rd?) alternate jersey.

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Not feeling the Spurs new black (3rd?) alternate jersey.

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I don’t particularly like the SATX font, but love everything else

Definitely grabbing the shorts to hoop in

[zello144]

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Not feeling the Spurs new black (3rd?) alternate jersey.

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That looks terrible

[illwill10]

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Pistons teal jerseys

[zello144]

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Pistons teal jerseys

Now those look good

[DamnYanks2]

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Pistons teal jerseys

Gives me prime Grant Hill vibes.

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[ProfessaPackMan]

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Nostalgia is a powerful drug because I def remember the consensus when these originally dropped were that they were trash and now they’re suddenly loved, lol

[ojandpizza]

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Nostalgia is a powerful drug because I def remember the consensus when these originally dropped were that they were trash and now they’re suddenly loved, lol

I liked them at the time too, but I think I was in the minority. I also loved the Raptors ones too.

[Suntan Superman]

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Nostalgia is a powerful drug because I def remember the consensus when these originally dropped were that they were trash and now they’re suddenly loved, lol

I feel like people like them now because so many of the newer NBA Uniforms are completely uninspired and bland. This era wasn't good for uniforms but at least they all had a personality.

[DamnYanks2]

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I loved the 90s style uniforms. They are kind of cheesy but kind of beautiful. I've always liked them. I think the teal Detroit jerseys would have caught on more if they were actually a good team at that time.



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[zello144]

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I feel like people like them now because so many of the newer NBA Uniforms are completely uninspired and bland. This era wasn't good for uniforms but at least they all had a personality.

I really hate how NBA teams change their uniforms like every year now. Choose a consistent look. Now some teams may need a change but making every single team do it? Nah.

[VDusen04]

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Nostalgia is a powerful drug because I def remember the consensus when these originally dropped were that they were trash and now they’re suddenly loved, lol

The vast majority of anyone who lived that teal Pistons era either can't stand those jerseys or are tepid at best with their return as part time retros. If the team ever fully rebranded to teal, there'd be a revolt among the 35+ crowd.

It's one hundred percent the fashion cycle at work; we're just old enough now to see it happen to our generation. I've found there's actually very few rejected fashions that are completely off-limits to future gens. Just when you think something can't possibly make a comeback, new generations accept that as a challenge (the same way we did with retro styles growing up ourselves).

It's always crazy to me how people can be so definitive and judgmental on fashion considering how fleeting and cyclical it is. John Stockton was mocked for his short shorts for something like 25 years, and yet now dudes are in an arms race for who can rock the shortest, tightest shorts in public with their phone and car keys bulging out of their pockets. Cargo pants/shorts were banished to the shadow realm years ago and yet I've seen a gentle uptick in recent years.

Same thing with 90's jerseys. Just funny how a large contingent can now try to say those Pistons jerseys are factually amazing and anyone who sees it different just doesn't get it. Twenty years ago, Pistons fans just about celebrated like they'd won the championship when Joe Dumars announced the return of red, white, and blue as one of his first orders of business.

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[jfsolo]

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The vast majority of anyone who lived that teal Pistons era either can't stand those jerseys or are tepid at best with their return as part time retros. If the team ever fully rebranded to teal, there'd be a revolt among the 35+ crowd.

It's one hundred percent the fashion cycle at work; we're just old enough now to see it happen to our generation. I've found there's actually very few rejected fashions that are completely off-limits to future gens. Just when you think something can't possibly make a comeback, new generations accept that as a challenge (the same way we did with retro styles growing up ourselves).

It's always crazy to me how people can be so definitive and judgmental on fashion considering how fleeting and cyclical it is. John Stockton was mocked for his short shorts for something like 25 years, and yet now dudes are in an arms race for who can rock the shortest, tightest shorts in public with their phone and car keys bulging out of their pockets. Cargo pants/shorts were banished to the shadow realm years ago and yet I've seen a gentle uptick in recent years.

Same thing with 90's jerseys. Just funny how a large contingent can now try to say those Pistons jerseys are factually amazing and anyone who sees it different just doesn't get it. Twenty years ago, Pistons fans just about celebrated like they'd won the championship when Joe Dumars announced the return of red, white, and blue as one of his first orders of business.

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I've been telling people for about a year now that every style that ever existed is back on the table now and will never go away again. I'm someone who doesn't care about fashion so I love that the younger folks realize that there are no "rules" so wear whatever the hell you want to.

I feel like it's primarily people in their 30s and 40s who are up in arms, but as an even older head, it's all good.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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The short shorts or tight pants/shirt phase never went away at all.

People just assumed that if you wore stuff like in public, that you were gay and/or weird, which was always a silly assumption to make.

Wild thing is a lot of the popular styles out now are because of them but that’s a whole other discussion.

[VDusen04]

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I've been telling people for about a year now that every style that ever existed is back on the table now and will never go away again. I'm someone who doesn't care about fashion so I love that the younger folks realize that there are no "rules" so wear whatever the hell you want to.

I feel like it's primarily people in their 30s and 40s who are up in arms, but as an even older head, it's all good.

I think fashion trends will continue running their course. I mean, if you're bold enough, you could always wear whatever you wanted; you can rock your high school varsity jacket to your job everyday if you wanted. But trends will still go out and come back in.

At the moment, it just seems that 90's insanity is trending hard, but I don't think it'll stay that way indefinitely. There'll always be a pendulum to some degree.

The short shorts or tight pants/shirt phase never went away at all.

I imagine this may have been region and sub-culture specific then because I can say that without a doubt, there was nowhere in the state of Michigan between 1995 and, say, 2010 where I saw a dude willingly wearing short shorts who wasn't playing it for a comedic bit. One of the biggest moments of a person's varsity basketball career was uniform selection day where you had to hope you could land the big pair of shorts, lest you be left sagging your game shorts all year to edge them toward an acceptable length.

For me, 1994-2000 represented the struggle of trying to find long enough shorts to reflect the change in style in culture, then 2000 to 2010 was an era of wearing shorts both casually and in sports that ranged only from knee length to TJ Ford.

Now, was there technically someone out there in Michigan wearing short shorts in the 2000's? I'm sure. Enough to consider it a trend? No way. But if you really just mean there was never a time where literally zero dudes were wearing short shorts—that at least one guy was wearing short shorts in the 2000's—sure.

I really hate how NBA teams change their uniforms like every year now. Choose a consistent look. Now some teams may need a change but making every single team do it? Nah.

This I wholeheartedly agree with. If there was a topic for our primary minor annoyance about the NBA, this would be a contender for me. The loss of reliable identity has sucked in recent years. I'm big on sports aesthetics and I just think the randomization of it all has been awful for sports aesthetics.

I think the league had the right mix pre-Nike. White home, dark road, an alternate for which a team could commit multiple years, and a retro. The fact that seems to get lost with this whole dark-at-home, white-on-road thing is that the NBA has one very distinct difference from every other major sports league: basketball teams don't have helmets, pants, hats, or any other sort of gear for which to distinguish themselves with identifying colors.

If the New York Rangers wear their whites in Detroit, I still spot their Ranger blue helmets and blue pants. If the New York Giants wear their whites in Detroit, I can still see their blue helmets and red socks. And if the New York Yankees really wanted to wear white at Comerica (which they wouldn't), we'd always have that familiar navy Yankees cap (and socks in some cases).

But when the Knicks rock white at LCA, they just like look the Detroit Pistons from afar but with a vague notion that they might be sporting some light orange piping for some reason. Home basketball teams have positive team identifiers everywhere. The paint, the court logo, the baseline, the dorna boards, the backboard pads. The only thing a road team has in the NBA is their jersey color. Depriving them of that just makes them look strange and anonymous.

And don't even get me started with teams who introduce alternate jerseys that don't match their color scheme who then go play on an opposing team's court matching their alternative scheme (i.e. the Lakers wearing royal blue in Philly).