Some Really Cool Jerseys Are Set To Return In ’12/13

If there’s anything cool about getting old I imagine it’s seeing stuff from your youth come back to be presented in a glorious light.  While we ’80s babies aren’t exactly old, we’ve finally reached a special benchmark in our lives: this coming NBA season we’ll get to see some throwback jerseys from our younger years, and I’m not even talking about Mitchell & Ness.  According to Uni-Watch.com, the NBA plans to outfit 12 of its teams in Hardwood Classic uniforms, but rather than last year’s ABA theme the league has elected to go with something more modern—a mid-to-late ’90s bonanza!

Here’s the entire report from Uni Watch…

Uni Watch News Ticker: “I saw the Spring 2013 Adidas NBA Catalog and there are some new on-court offerings,” says Chris Blackstone. “There are new jerseys for Christmas Day and for home weekend games during the second half of season, called the Winter Court jerseys. They’re monochrome like the all-black Miami uniforms from the past couple years, but in team colors. Also, there are Hardwood Classic jerseys for Indiana (home from 1997-98 through 2004-05), Milwaukee (late ’90s), Chicago (mid-’90s alternate), Atlanta (late-’90s road), Miami (late-’90s alternate), Sacramento (mid-’90s alternate), Phoenix (1990s alternate), Philly (early-’90s road), Cleveland (mid-’90s road), Toronto (late-’90ss home), Houston (late-’90s road), and Utah (late-’90s road).” No word on whether the NBA plans to put ads on throwbacks in 2013.

Ads or no ads, this is going to make watching those mid-season battles between the Bucks and the Raptors super-duper exciting.  I mean, sh!t, all we’ve got to do is pretend DeMaR DeRoZaN is prime Vince Carter and it’ll be just like old times!

Yeah, I’m definitely most excited about those Dino Raptor joints.  If they put authentics up for sale I just might have to end my personal jersey boycott.  I’ll probably be tempted by the Hawks, too.  For those of you who don’t have vivid childhood memories of all the aforementioned masterpieces, The Basketball Jones created the following guide: Pacers, Bucks, Bulls, Hawks, Heat, Kings, Suns, Sixers, Cavaliers, Raptors, Rockets, Jazz.

I’m sure there will be at least a little variance from those pictures to what we actually see on the floor, but I reviewed all of their links and I think they’ve made the proper assumptions based on Uni Watch’s report (with exception to the Bucks, unfortunately… I think we’ll actually get these).

I suppose my only real gripe here is that the league elected not to bring these back (and Stromile Swift along with them!).  Other than that, I must admit, I’m pretty freaking pleased.

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