Sunday, January 11, 2015

Adidas Redeems Themselves with NBA Christmas Day Uniforms

     So a few weeks ago I created a post, What Uniforms will Adidas "bless" the NBA with on Christmas Day, where I bashed Adidas for the horrendous uniforms that were worn for the games played on Christmas Day in the 2013-2014 season. At that point, the uniforms for this past Christmas had yet to be unveiled, but anything would be a step up from the previous season.
     In my family, Christmas Day is spent watching the NBA games all day. When I watched the first game of the day I was a little confused as it looked as if the players were wearing their every day uniforms. But then as I looked more closely I realized that instead of having the team name in lettering across the front, it was just the team logo. Also on the back of the jersey instead of having the last name on the shoulders, the player's first name was placed on their lower back.
     Even though it is a simple design, I personally like it a lot better than the skin-tight short sleeved uniforms last year. I think I was cool how they put a different spin on the back of the uniform with the first name instead of the last because with so many of the top athletes in today's sports world  are known on a first name basis like LeBron and Carmelo.
     A side note: I was scrolling through Twitter while watching the game, I saw a crazy uniform design for next season's Christmas Day games which was tweeted by Sports Nation:
I think this design is awesome, with the uniforms designed after a Christmas sweater but I don't think it will ever end up happening because it might be just a little too crazy with all the different colors on the court.
      Over the past few season's, there seems to be a reoccurring theme of having the team's logo put on the jersey instead of the team name, so I suspect we will see that again with next season's uniforms as well. In the future I want Adidas to come up with something outside of the box, but still keeps with the traditional basketball uniform.

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