New Wolves Uni? I hope not. That may be some of the worst lettering in the league if these are...

New Wolves Uni? I hope not. That may be some of the worst lettering in the league if these are the new threads. My guess is that if this is a real photo, this is a practice top and the real jersey is underneath.

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No, this is it. The photo is from the rookie shoot for the player’s cards and they were wearing their new jerseys (along with the Kings and Magic). These weren’t supposed to be out, but Getty Images leaked them.

by Twins Territory on Jul 30, 2008 7:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow...

...that lettering is fugly. I read earlier in the week that the rookies with new unis would wear a practice jersey to cover up the new unis. There were a few pictures of the guys from OKC with their practice jerseys on. He is wearing 2 jerseys in the picture and I’m hoping that the one underneath is the new uni (with the old bordering).

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 30, 2008 8:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Looks like a misprint

I hope that ain’t the jersey either. Too small and too wrong looking.

It definitely could be the real jersey poking out between his shoulder and neck, unless it’s just a touch of trim from the old jersey added to the neck-lining of the new jerseys. I hope it’s just a practice jersey.

If this is the real jersey, petition them to never take off the warmups during the actual games.

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jul 30, 2008 8:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think it is...

Getty has asked many sites to remove this picture and the Kings picture because the NBA didn’t want them out until the teams unveiled them. Getty even took them off their page…

by Twins Territory on Aug 2, 2008 6:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It is

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by Stop-n-Pop on Aug 2, 2008 6:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Of course...

...the more I think of it, I remember reading something about how the new unis were going to look more like the Lynx unis. Crap, these are the new uniforms.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 30, 2008 8:11 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I kind of like the simplicity of it, the old ones were too “busy” for me. The only problem is the lettering, which I find gimmicky.

by plinytheelder on Jul 30, 2008 8:25 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Also how does he do that finger thing?

by plinytheelder on Jul 30, 2008 8:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Exactly...

...spot on with the lettering. It seems too small. I like the uncluttered-ness of it all, but the lettering seems silly.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 30, 2008 8:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

lettering only looks small next to Love’s enormous biceps

by plinytheelder on Jul 31, 2008 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

I’m kind of with you on that. I mean, I don’t love the looks of this (and I suspect that’s not really it) but when it comes to sports unis, I’m definately in the less-is-more camp. (Perhaps to an extreme, as this is coming from a guy who thinks the best uniforms in any sport is a coin toss between Penn State football and the Detroit Lions throwbacks.)

My main complaint is again the color, though. I really hate that expansion era turqoise/seawater color, so as long as they keep featuring that I’m not going to like it. And I don’t like that kalaidoscope thing on the sides.

by jianfu on Jul 30, 2008 11:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's a dull, flat color

I never liked T-Wolves grey-blue either. It’s a depressing color.

Not that I have any ideas to really change the Timberwolves jerseys to, but just not having the letters so damn small would be my first improvement. Bennet Salvatore will never be able to read that!

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jul 31, 2008 2:08 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

no not depressing it’s “mysterious” and “brooding” like a cool November day in Minnesota

by plinytheelder on Jul 31, 2008 2:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I always thought...

...the Wolves should have gray unis. Gray with blue lettering, white bordering, and green highlights.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 31, 2008 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I could go for that...

A little Georgetown Hoyas feel?

by jianfu on Jul 31, 2008 3:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

A little.

There’s not too many gray unis out there. I think I saw the Nets with one a while back.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 31, 2008 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like it

The blue you guys got going, and the green, are great as trims but I don’t necessarily like ‘em as the main colors.

Make it happen! Your idea, I mean! Gain power within the franchise and implement your change in uniform design! Go! Run! Andale!

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jul 31, 2008 8:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That’s obviously the practice jersey.

by College Wolf on Jul 30, 2008 10:34 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Upon further examination...

that may be our actual jersey. If so, I just puked in my mouth.

by College Wolf on Jul 30, 2008 10:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's the bad part

It’s hard to tell, and looks ‘real’ enough to maybe be just a bad new jersey, and definitely not ‘practice jersey-esque’ enough to for sure not be the new jersey.

I mean, I’ve never seen that NICE of a practice jersey, which are usually very plain and mesh and don’t have a real design and logo to it. These do.

I think I read last year that it takes 2 to 3 years for a jersey to be designed and approved and put into effect by the NBA… anyone know if that is true? I thought I read it in relation to the Wizards alternate gold/black jerseys.

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jul 31, 2008 2:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That better not be the real jersey...

or else I’m going to start a riot.

by roundhouse on Jul 30, 2008 10:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Ieeuw .. too bad I haven’t got my Randy Foye jersey yet :(

by Wim (Belgium) on Jul 31, 2008 3:23 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Don't jerseys usually have the....

TEAM NAME on them. This is a complete disaster. I was hoping they’d slowly fad into a more old school color scheme. This is what I’d expect from a jersey cerca 1998.

by Pants_ on Jul 31, 2008 6:38 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I thought it was that team name is for home...

...jerseys and city/state is for the road.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 31, 2008 7:22 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm still hoping these are the practice jerseys.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 31, 2008 7:22 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

From TrueHoop (Abbot was at the shoot)

“The Uniforms
The photos that are taken today will be on these players’ official Upper Deck and Topps cards. The NBA also takes photos for their vast photo archive.

But some teams are about to unveil new uniforms.

So the players from those teams have been asked to be sneaky. They are wearing the new uniforms. But when they are not being photographed, they are wearing shooting shirts over the top so the secret .”

That doesn’t look like a “shooting shirt”, so that would have to be the uni. Man, those are ugly. And the size of the “Minnesota” is so small to make it seem as if they are ashamed. Ouch.

by Sterno on Jul 31, 2008 9:11 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

What exactly is a “shooting shirt”? Does that make you shoot better? Maybe Brewer didn’t get his yet.

by plinytheelder on Jul 31, 2008 12:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Lol, in case you’re serious, a shooting shirt is a shirt you wear during shootaround. It so happens I had a friend of a friend in the USA and he bought a timberwolves’ one for me:

http://store.nba.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=2802345&cp=2788213

by Wim (Belgium) on Jul 31, 2008 1:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

wow, those were always “warm-ups” to me, guess I’m showing my age, or maybe it’s because I’m a durn forner

by plinytheelder on Jul 31, 2008 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

well, what’s in a name huh

by Wim (Belgium) on Jul 31, 2008 2:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah also I love how the wolves’ “shooting shirt” is about half price, not exactly selling like hot cakes probably hehe

by plinytheelder on Jul 31, 2008 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I just can't get over how UGGLEEE that jersey is

by roundhouse on Jul 31, 2008 4:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I dislike it more and more each time I see it. It's the lettering and bland color.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 31, 2008 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

They either look like...

...cheap knock-offs you’d find in a market in Seoul or some overstock bought up by Wal Mart. They’re just a little bit off….enough so where you really notice.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 31, 2008 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I will say this...

By my recollection, I’m not as upset about these as I was when they unveiled their first change of uniform in the mid 90s. I never, ever came around that one.

But again, that weird stuff on the side…what’s the point? It looks like levels on a soundboard.

Also, anyone know if the Target Center floor’s going to change looks? The current look (which was changed with the first switch in the 90s, IIRC) reflects their old unis on a few ways.

by jianfu on Jul 31, 2008 4:11 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

hey, could be worse:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/news/2001/03/07/sayitaintso_raptors/t1_stoudamire_all.jpg

by plinytheelder on Jul 31, 2008 5:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

wow...

that’s almost as bad as the short-short night the l*akers had earlier this year.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 31, 2008 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That was an awful era for uniforms

So many teams had cartoony logos on the jerseys. The Raps, Rockets, Sonics, Grizz, Warriors, etc all used cartoony kid logos. So awful.

Maybe it’s not too late for the T-Wolves to add a cartoony wolf to the jersey? Maybe he can wear a bandana, give a thumbs up or sumthin’?

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jul 31, 2008 8:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

cartoon wolf

how about a cartoon wolf smoking a cig, “wolves” printed in phat letters in the cloud of smoke? that’d be nice

by secretarykissinger on Aug 1, 2008 1:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

wow that’s pretty lewd, they should add something x-rated in there too, that’d be classy

by plinytheelder on Aug 1, 2008 1:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

DAMN!

I can’t get that cigarette-smoking wolf out of my head, I’m literally doubled over in laughter, someone needs to make that uniform!

by plinytheelder on Aug 1, 2008 1:49 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Will anyone...

over the age of 12 wear one of the new Wolves jerseys? I didn’t think so.

Ahhh they’re just so ugly.

by roundhouse on Aug 1, 2008 1:02 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

It just sucks.

Period.

by Matty_P on Aug 1, 2008 1:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Besides the lettering...

...and the lame color, the thing that annoys me the most is the old bordering being thrown in around the neck line. It looks like there’s a sports bra underneath.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Aug 1, 2008 1:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs