The NBA All-Star jerseys from '95 and '96 are fan favorites. They are player favorites. And for some, they're a wistful juxtaposition of how bland modern All-Star Game jerseys have become. Read more:
Those jerseys were a gateway to a new generation of possibilities. Before the mid-1990s, All-Star uniforms had either been subtle paeans to the host city or were mostly red and blue and white, and white and red and blue, and on it went, jumbling those colors over and over every year.hired Thomas O’Grady as its first creative director. O’Grady came from FCB, an advertising agency, and he would be the mastermind behind the league’s uniforms for the next 13 years.
The steady drip of innovation began with the 1992 game in Orlando, when the NBA incorporated some of the Magic colors in the jerseys and a logo with five colors instead of two. In 1993, in Utah, the NBA used the Jazz as the base colors for the game’s color scheme. He designed the logo first, then peeled it apart for the uniforms. The logos were meant to look city-specific, to have a provincialism to a national sport’s marquee weekend. The 1995 jerseys, when the game was in Phoenix, featured Aztec trim along the sides and a sunburst behind the green cactus . The 1996 jerseys had metallic silver stars as a tribute to the Spurs and a fiesta trim running down the shirt and shorts.
It was perhaps even more astonishing that this all came during David Stern’s regime. Stern, the longtime NBA commissioner, had a reputation for being occasionally stodgy. O’Grady said Stern was a product of the classic look of the 1970s and the ageless uniform designs of theBut Stern was always appreciative of O’Grady’s work, and of pushing boundaries. The same goes for Rick Welts, the league’s head of marketing at that time.
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