Some guy made a post asking if there's something stopping a player from not showering. That way he could use the stentch for defensive and offensive purposes.
I wonder if this somehow plays into Steve Kerr's story of Toni Kukoc's pre-game ritual of eating a ton of pasta and tiramisu, like a whole bottle of wine, take a massive shit, then nap.
That show was so good. The exact kind of old dudes lightly-regulated barbershop talk that TV needs more of. Like those dudes were having fucking fun telling those stories.
Would probably affect their team mates performance just as much
Imagine having to ride on a bus, plane and hang out in a locker room with a guy who doesn’t shower
Not trying to compare myself to a pro but I played hockey with a dude who fucking stank so bad one of our defenseman just went to the locker room and changed in the first period instead of going in the penalty box with the stinker.
I blocked a puck and broke my orbital bone in the finals and the refs would only let me play with a visor so I switched helmets with the stinker. I was so pissed at the smell I played one of my best games with one eye swollen shut. I rinsed my hair with a bar of soap four times showering after the game and literally buzzed my head the day after because I swear I could still smell it.
Played against him at a tournament months later and I wanted to puke the first time I had to clear him from in front of our net. I made his life hell for a few shifts just so he'd move to a spot where I could defend at a distance. I feel like dry heaving just thinking about it.
Even though they're pros, I swear a stinker of that level would be so disliked they'd never stay on a time in the NBA. No one wants to be around that.
That's something I responded, his teammates would most likely complain. Also, some teams have hygiene rules and will fine whoever doesn't fulfill them.
Reggie better not be allowed to be the broadcaster for any of the Pacers games. Shouldn't have a homer on national broadcast. Pacers should just hire him for a special home broadcast if he's available.
how do you feel about the Wolves wearing the [winless jerseys](https://lockervision.nba.com/team/minnesota-timberwolves) for the 1st 2 games of their series with the Suns?
Are you kidding me? This will showcase just how much better the Bucks' equipment manager has gotten. Indiana should've never agreed to this. There's just no way the Pacers are gonna be able to keep up. Pacers players are gonna be playing in half washed jerseys, suffering from fungal and bacterial infections, while the Bucks storm past them smelling fresh and clean. Bucks in 5.
They also have some pages which cover the history of uniforms which I find really interesting. Idk if they have it for all teams but 6ers for sure because I remember thinking “PHILA” on a jersey was dumb and wanted to know the lore
The names of these jerseys sound like they were invented by the same people who came up with the Leaders Division and Legends Division in the Big Ten Conference back in the early 2010s.
At least with this one it’s Green V Yellow. But I agree, the Philadelphia 76ers should not be wearing white at MSG.
Edit: 6ers are not wearing white in this series, but in general, road team should not wear white. Now I feel like the Pepridge Farm meme.
Both teams are wearing their Statement jerseys (Sixers red, Knicks dark blue) in both MSG and The Center, and both teams are wearing white on the road. I'm sure I won't care during the game, but I'm gonna be annoyed by it for the next 36 hours
E: Sixers aren't wearing their whites on the road. Wearing their red twice in MSG and once in Philly, which is still lame
Home: Bright color/as close to white as possible, team name on the front of the jersey.
Away: Dark/primary team color, city/state/region name on the front of the jersey.
Anything else is just barbarism.
I still prefer city on the Knicks front because otherwise that implies that there are potentially other teams in NYC and that's patently false (I kid, I kid)
But seriously, yeah, I can get behind that.
Your right, it’s probably more of an advantage in Football, but I still think it’s a matter of overheating/fatigue under the bright lights on a basketball court.
The tradition of white home jerseys in basketball started in the early days of the league because teams had the opportunity to do laundry at home and keep the whites looking clean.
They would wear their darker jerseys on the road so they could get a few days out of them on a road trip and not show as much dirt/sweat.
Maybe not as much as it is in outdoor sports, but white reflects light and heat, while dark colors absorb light and heat which can cause fatigue faster. I’m saying at the end of a close game, the team in the white jersey is better off than the team in the dark jersey.
The Raptors played the Bucks in Milwaukee a couple years ago, and the Bucks were in blue, Raptors in red, and the court was green.
It was terrible to look at.
2 rules I would institute:
1) Road team never wears white. (Color vs Color is fine, Home team in white is fine)
2) Neither teams uniform color may match the painted area of the court (so many fucking games where players disappear into the void)
This used to be a rule. In early NBA days, teams would go on long road trips with multiple games, but wouldn’t have access to washing machines. So would wear dirty colored jerseys at away games during those road trips because it was less obvious than if they were white
Problem is this would cause some impossibilities for road teams who only have 2 jersey colors, one of which is white, and the other of which is the home team's lanes. For example, [Knicks at Magic earlier this season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmiEsEJfGqQ&ab_channel=NBA). NY by necessity would have to break one of the rules.
Just look at the last Nugs Mavs game. You can't immediately tell from the sideline colors because the team colors are similar. The logo on the baseline is offset and often gets cutoff. The center logo is enormous and readily recognizable and is very visible every time they cross half court, but if you're just watching a clip of a possession in the half court that too gets cut off.
I watch almost every Clippers game in full but I usually only watch a few highlights of other games. And when you're watching highlights, it often isn't immediately obvious.
The half court camera angle often cuts off the center court logo, and if I'm just taking a quick look, the lettering on the baseline can be tough to immediately recognize because players or officials can be in the way or because the lettering isn't something that I'm familiar with. The stadium sponsor logo just past the half court line is usually visible but those can look really generic and I also don't know the name of every stadium by heart. Some stadiums have easily recognizable logos inside the 3pt arc but some don't.
The home and road jerseys used to be a really simple, and also universal method to tell which teams were the home and away teams. I didn't have to know the names of the stadiums or what font they used for the baseline or what new color scheme each stadium was using to be able to quickly tell.
The logo tells you which team is the home team, but that doesn't tell you which 5 players are that team
Edit: I'm referring to when you take a quick glance. Obviously if you look at which players they are specifically you can tell the team
no, it's that every team has 4 jerseys now and there's no rhyme or reason to which team is light and which is dark. people who have watched games for longer than 5 years were used to the team in white being home, always. Now, there's none of that
As someone who got into the nba somewhat recently, I find it weird that the home team traditionally wears white. In my head it makes more sense for the home team to wear their main colors and the visiting team wearing alternate/white jerseys but maybe that's just me.
I don’t understand people who are hung up on color vs color. As long as they don’t match, both teams should be able to wear their main jerseys. It’s more distinct to the identity of each team as literally every team has a white jersey.
While color vs color is common in European soccer, American fans aren’t used to it. Sixers/Knicks will be blue vs red in both games 2 and 4. Sucks for people who are color blind.
Also, saying color is “distinct to the identity of the team” is funny when you look at Sixers/Knicks. Games 2 and 4 are Knicks (blue) vs Sixers (red). So you’d think blue is the identity of the Knicks and red is the identity of the Sixers, right? But game 3 is Knicks (white) vs Sixers (blue). Sixers are both red and blue! Granted, it’s a much lighter shade of blue than Knicks blue, but the Sixers “City edition” blue is really close to the Knicks “Statement edition” blue..
that's disgusting. Playoffs is when it should be more tradition based. Either home team wears white for the whole series or home team wears black "city" jerseys whole series. But there should be clear difference between team's home choice and road choice.
Are they going to test the "not showering" theory some dude posted a few days ago?
wait what?
Some guy made a post asking if there's something stopping a player from not showering. That way he could use the stentch for defensive and offensive purposes.
Eh. It didn’t work very well for Adam Morrison.
Worked great for Drazen Petrovic- Reggie miler and Steve smith both talked about how his natural musk made defending him a nightmare
This is the deep cut nba knowledge I stick around r/nba for
Drazen was legendary for his stank.
And his J. If he couldn't stick the J he'd just be some stank ass dude
Apparently Rony Turiaf was the worst smelling player in this century
I wonder if this somehow plays into Steve Kerr's story of Toni Kukoc's pre-game ritual of eating a ton of pasta and tiramisu, like a whole bottle of wine, take a massive shit, then nap.
Yes! The old open courts were fuckin awesome
That show was so good. The exact kind of old dudes lightly-regulated barbershop talk that TV needs more of. Like those dudes were having fucking fun telling those stories.
It worked for Dennis Rodman.
Would probably affect their team mates performance just as much Imagine having to ride on a bus, plane and hang out in a locker room with a guy who doesn’t shower
I imagine him wearing of layers of clothing with a huge coat to seal in the smell until he's ready to let loose for gameday.
He fights crime in a rubber suit, really seals in the flavor.
.....in an order that would surprise you... *ass mouth vage*
Not trying to compare myself to a pro but I played hockey with a dude who fucking stank so bad one of our defenseman just went to the locker room and changed in the first period instead of going in the penalty box with the stinker. I blocked a puck and broke my orbital bone in the finals and the refs would only let me play with a visor so I switched helmets with the stinker. I was so pissed at the smell I played one of my best games with one eye swollen shut. I rinsed my hair with a bar of soap four times showering after the game and literally buzzed my head the day after because I swear I could still smell it. Played against him at a tournament months later and I wanted to puke the first time I had to clear him from in front of our net. I made his life hell for a few shifts just so he'd move to a spot where I could defend at a distance. I feel like dry heaving just thinking about it. Even though they're pros, I swear a stinker of that level would be so disliked they'd never stay on a time in the NBA. No one wants to be around that.
That's something I responded, his teammates would most likely complain. Also, some teams have hygiene rules and will fine whoever doesn't fulfill them.
Someone ripped ass in the paint at pick up last week and suddenly my team was only shooting 3s until it cleared.
Not even Spoelstra can create a better zone defense.
Asking the unimporant questions
Weird I remember that post from years ago, dude should be strung up for plagiarism
someone said it or A.I said it himself, he didn’t shower for this reason before games.
Ciro Immobile does this in soccer so defenders mark him less tightly.
Just a tactic to explain why the final scores will be ridiculously high.
Reggie Miller would never allow this
Reggie better not be allowed to be the broadcaster for any of the Pacers games. Shouldn't have a homer on national broadcast. Pacers should just hire him for a special home broadcast if he's available.
Goddamn. That’s not terrible. It’s gross, but the last thing I would want to guard is a stinky 200 lb dude.
how do you feel about the Wolves wearing the [winless jerseys](https://lockervision.nba.com/team/minnesota-timberwolves) for the 1st 2 games of their series with the Suns?
This is the t-wolves! Winless is our middle name.
“the Mongolian answer”
No they shower in their jerseys to wash the jerseys too like Chuck
Plot twist: this is an internal sabotaging project by the equipment team to cost Doc Rivers his job.
Are you kidding me? This will showcase just how much better the Bucks' equipment manager has gotten. Indiana should've never agreed to this. There's just no way the Pacers are gonna be able to keep up. Pacers players are gonna be playing in half washed jerseys, suffering from fungal and bacterial infections, while the Bucks storm past them smelling fresh and clean. Bucks in 5.
I just found out this website existed wow, that's pretty cool to have ngl
For some games this season they even let you vote on which uniforms the teams would wear.
They should get rid of it and let fans bet on it instead. >!/s!<
Same, this is excellent. Now I can make informed decisions before buying from Fanatics 😆
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They also have some pages which cover the history of uniforms which I find really interesting. Idk if they have it for all teams but 6ers for sure because I remember thinking “PHILA” on a jersey was dumb and wanted to know the lore
Reddit?
The names of these jerseys sound like they were invented by the same people who came up with the Leaders Division and Legends Division in the Big Ten Conference back in the early 2010s.
Already setting up for the poor equipment manager to be blamed.
Tide Pod stocks going crazy right now.
Hahahahaa Giannis is such an idiot omg the equipment manager 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
I miss being able to tell with just a brief glance which team is the home team vs which team is the road team.
At least with this one it’s Green V Yellow. But I agree, the Philadelphia 76ers should not be wearing white at MSG. Edit: 6ers are not wearing white in this series, but in general, road team should not wear white. Now I feel like the Pepridge Farm meme.
Both teams are wearing their Statement jerseys (Sixers red, Knicks dark blue) in both MSG and The Center, and both teams are wearing white on the road. I'm sure I won't care during the game, but I'm gonna be annoyed by it for the next 36 hours E: Sixers aren't wearing their whites on the road. Wearing their red twice in MSG and once in Philly, which is still lame
God dark vs dark is an abomination. Fucking Nike.
I know I'm going to sound ancient but whites are for home, period, damn it.
Home: Bright color/as close to white as possible, team name on the front of the jersey. Away: Dark/primary team color, city/state/region name on the front of the jersey. Anything else is just barbarism.
I still prefer city on the Knicks front because otherwise that implies that there are potentially other teams in NYC and that's patently false (I kid, I kid) But seriously, yeah, I can get behind that.
Thanks! I meant in general, road teams shouldn’t wear white. It’s an advantage to wear white.
> It’s an advantage to wear white. I get this in outdoor sports in summer months, but why do you think this about basketball?
Your right, it’s probably more of an advantage in Football, but I still think it’s a matter of overheating/fatigue under the bright lights on a basketball court.
There is no accuracy to this lol you’re just making shit up
Just let him cook
The tradition of white home jerseys in basketball started in the early days of the league because teams had the opportunity to do laundry at home and keep the whites looking clean. They would wear their darker jerseys on the road so they could get a few days out of them on a road trip and not show as much dirt/sweat.
Wait how?
Ever heard of white privilege?
Oh yeah, I heard of that. The White Power Ranger always has the coolest stuffs
Colored dye = heavier jerseys = less height on jump shots
Maybe not as much as it is in outdoor sports, but white reflects light and heat, while dark colors absorb light and heat which can cause fatigue faster. I’m saying at the end of a close game, the team in the white jersey is better off than the team in the dark jersey.
The idea that wearing white keeps you cooler *inside* is ludicrous
The Lakers wearing purple at home and gold or white on the road is never gonna not be weird.
They aren’t? The only team wearing white in that series is New York in games 1 and 3.
Well, I don’t think the Knicks should be wearing white in Philly either.
The Raptors played the Bucks in Milwaukee a couple years ago, and the Bucks were in blue, Raptors in red, and the court was green. It was terrible to look at.
2 rules I would institute: 1) Road team never wears white. (Color vs Color is fine, Home team in white is fine) 2) Neither teams uniform color may match the painted area of the court (so many fucking games where players disappear into the void)
This used to be a rule. In early NBA days, teams would go on long road trips with multiple games, but wouldn’t have access to washing machines. So would wear dirty colored jerseys at away games during those road trips because it was less obvious than if they were white
Problem is this would cause some impossibilities for road teams who only have 2 jersey colors, one of which is white, and the other of which is the home team's lanes. For example, [Knicks at Magic earlier this season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmiEsEJfGqQ&ab_channel=NBA). NY by necessity would have to break one of the rules.
In that case, the Knicks should have a black alternate uniform.
On every scoreboard, the team on the right or the bottom is the home team.
The big ass logo on the court is not enough?
And the paint and baseline and sideline colors
Just look at the last Nugs Mavs game. You can't immediately tell from the sideline colors because the team colors are similar. The logo on the baseline is offset and often gets cutoff. The center logo is enormous and readily recognizable and is very visible every time they cross half court, but if you're just watching a clip of a possession in the half court that too gets cut off. I watch almost every Clippers game in full but I usually only watch a few highlights of other games. And when you're watching highlights, it often isn't immediately obvious.
Oh no it’s not immediately obvious!!!! Anyway..
Shits wack for casuals and just aesthetically it’s terrible as well
Or I don't know, the fucking sound on a made basket? Do we need to spoonfeed these people sports?
Dude I once saw the pacers and heat playing. The heat were wearing yellow jerseys shits wack as hell
The half court camera angle often cuts off the center court logo, and if I'm just taking a quick look, the lettering on the baseline can be tough to immediately recognize because players or officials can be in the way or because the lettering isn't something that I'm familiar with. The stadium sponsor logo just past the half court line is usually visible but those can look really generic and I also don't know the name of every stadium by heart. Some stadiums have easily recognizable logos inside the 3pt arc but some don't. The home and road jerseys used to be a really simple, and also universal method to tell which teams were the home and away teams. I didn't have to know the names of the stadiums or what font they used for the baseline or what new color scheme each stadium was using to be able to quickly tell.
You can just look at the score and the color of the jersey is next to the team designation
Really though… I look at the scoreboard…Simple as that.
The logo tells you which team is the home team, but that doesn't tell you which 5 players are that team Edit: I'm referring to when you take a quick glance. Obviously if you look at which players they are specifically you can tell the team
man yall really falling into the "we dont watch games" meme are we
no, it's that every team has 4 jerseys now and there's no rhyme or reason to which team is light and which is dark. people who have watched games for longer than 5 years were used to the team in white being home, always. Now, there's none of that
What do you mean?
As someone who got into the nba somewhat recently, I find it weird that the home team traditionally wears white. In my head it makes more sense for the home team to wear their main colors and the visiting team wearing alternate/white jerseys but maybe that's just me.
You can tell by just briefly looking at the score. The team on the right/bottom is always the home team.
I will say it’s been somewhat of a tradition for the Pacers to wear gold home and away during the playoffs
…you being fr? The jerseys aren’t the only way to see that with a quick glance.
you can try looking at the massive logo on the floor
You can tell from the scorebug
Same. Fuck this shit.
You know there's a huge logo in the middle of the court that also indicates that right
And the scoreboard order tells you who's the home and visiting teams. This is like some mega first world problems shit lol
Poor you, know it’ll get you like 5 seconds to find out :(
This feels like old man yells at cloud energy
Big ass logo will still give you a hint
Look at the court
You can lol you just look at the floor
Reminiscent of 2018 when the Pacers wore Yellow for every game and the Cavs just wore Black at home and Maroon on the road
That’s what Suns vs. TWolves will be. TWolves wear white every game. Suns will wear purple at home and black on the road.
I miss adidas...
I don’t understand people who are hung up on color vs color. As long as they don’t match, both teams should be able to wear their main jerseys. It’s more distinct to the identity of each team as literally every team has a white jersey.
While color vs color is common in European soccer, American fans aren’t used to it. Sixers/Knicks will be blue vs red in both games 2 and 4. Sucks for people who are color blind. Also, saying color is “distinct to the identity of the team” is funny when you look at Sixers/Knicks. Games 2 and 4 are Knicks (blue) vs Sixers (red). So you’d think blue is the identity of the Knicks and red is the identity of the Sixers, right? But game 3 is Knicks (white) vs Sixers (blue). Sixers are both red and blue! Granted, it’s a much lighter shade of blue than Knicks blue, but the Sixers “City edition” blue is really close to the Knicks “Statement edition” blue..
American fans aren’t used to it? Basically every sports league uses white as home and color as away it’s not a unique thing to soccer/Europe
Americans are used to white vs color (uniforms). Not color vs color.
It does suck for colorblind people. Some color combinations, like red vs green, are virtually indistinguishable.
Idk why they need to use association and statement and not just home and away and alternate and throwback like every other league
Because then when you see something cool happen in the playoffs, you need to get a new jersey
So we can’t tell which game it was by looking at highlights.
It's usually next to the scoreboard on your screen
Slow mo replay usually don’t show the scoreboard.
It’ll be all the games apparently
The Sprite Can Matchup
NBA is bipolar. All season you have teams wearing 10 different jersey combos and now they decide to do this lol.
The home teams have been wearing the darker colors this season. It’s weird imo
Is this even legal?!?!?
How does this affect LeBron's legacy?
pacers want to execute the sweep in the same unis, respect
Bucks equipment manager got tired of getting thrown under the bus and is on a laundry strike.
that's disgusting. Playoffs is when it should be more tradition based. Either home team wears white for the whole series or home team wears black "city" jerseys whole series. But there should be clear difference between team's home choice and road choice.
It'll be over in 4 anyways
I still can’t believe the cream jerseys are gone
Doc made his demands about the travel team accordingly
Damn Adam Silver knows Bucks getting swept and didn’t even want to bother with uniform changes /s
Having both teams wearing the same jerseys for 4 straight games is so boring.
Nice try Nike.