We already knew the NBA had it too uniform, but the Thunder reached a new level Friday night against the Hawks, with different uniforms in each half of their game against Atlanta.
There was a good reason for the change, which is that the NBA has done it too damn uniform. The Hawks appeared on the Oklahoma City court with their (check notes) Icon t-shirts, while the Thunder put theirs (check the notes again) Declaration T-shirts.
The result was an incredibly stupid confrontation red versus orange.
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Incredibly, the Thunder, the local team, with the ability to wear any uniform they could put together, he tried to blame the Hawks’ failure “brings the wrong uniform color to the game.”
Apparently, the Hawks only wore red uniforms on their road trip, almost as if they thought they could come up with a concept as crazy as “road uniforms.” The Thunder might have been incredulous at this, but kindly changed the half to white uniforms – no, sorry (check notes again) Association T-shirts.
The Thunder beat the Hawks, 63-55, in orange, and beat Atlanta, 55-54, in white, by a 118-109 final.
The worst part is that it wasn’t just a weird fact. Uniform decisions were made in advance and the situation was totally avoidable.
In 2013, the Hawks-Knicks ’red and orange clash was a much more understandable mistake. New York wore its orange substitutes for the fourth time and NBA standards at the time required the local team to, achieve this, “wear light-colored T-shirts and visitors dark T-shirts, unless otherwise approved.”
Orange had been designated as a light-colored alternate jersey, and NBA Vice President Tim Frank stated, “Going forward, we’ll make sure the opponent has a more distinctive color when the Knicks wear orange.”
He said nothing about the Thunder wearing orange.
Sorry, not orange. “Evening”. Is it a basketball league or an LL Bean catalog?