More Magic Uniform Madness: Dwight Howard Rocks New Duds during "got milk?" Photoshoot

by Ben Q Rock on Sep 4, 2008 11:48 PM EDT in News Comment 7 comments

Earlier today, I received an email from a reader named Darrell urging me to watch this morning's edition of ESPN's First Take because it featured an interview with Dwight Howard in which the big fella can be seen wearing what appears to be the Magic's new uniform. As much as I would have loved to see the new uniform, I did not want to have to sit through First Take.

Now the video is up on ESPN.com. Even better, Black and Blue Jor took some screencaps of it, which you can view at his site, The Howeva Files.

Bad: No sign of the pinstripes that Courtney Lee had on his uniform during the rookie photo shoot. Worse: the side paneling on the home uniforms is black, whereas the wordmark is blue. It just looks... off.

The away uniform is pretty solid, though. I'm a sucker for Magic blue.

Maybe it's just a mock-up, but I rather doubt it because the official unveiling is less than three weeks away -- check the countdown clock on the homepage for the exact time remaining.

So, based on the screencaps Jor so graciously provided, what do you think about the new uniforms?

Some odds and ends:

J.J. Redick is back from vacation and says he and a few teammates have had some "informal" workouts this week.
Brian Schmitz has the team's local television schedule.
New 3QC user PSmith7 would like to know what the heck is up with Fran Vazquez.

More later this weekend on Mickael Pietrus and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Probably.

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Why is JJ Redick still a member of the team?

by PSmith7 on Sep 5, 2008 3:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Low trade value, I imagine.

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by Ben Q Rock on Sep 5, 2008 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Uni ?

So now no pinstripes? Why change the uni then? The only thing they added was the side panels and the funny neck line. Altho the neckline does look as bad now. I love what the Hornets did; New Orleans logos and colors, and an ode the past with the pinstripes. I hope those are not the final ones but your right Ben, 3 weeks away and not too many changes can happen.

By the way, that OKC Thunder is D-League/WNBA ish. I hate it. It looks amateur.

by L Magico on Sep 5, 2008 4:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

As… disappointing… as the uniform looks, I’m still anxious to see it. I go nuts over aesthetics like that.

The Thunder logo is disappointing. I mean, it’s an okay logo for a restaurant or something, the basketball in a triangle… but there’s no connection to the actual team name. You could replace “Thunder” with any other team name and it’d still work. Silly.

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by Ben Q Rock on Sep 5, 2008 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whether you like them or not they are just unis. At the end of the day, it’s not gonna matter that much. It sucks that the only exciting thing to discuss is the new unform. November is tooooooo far away.

by magic fanatic on Sep 6, 2008 12:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

“Magic Uniform Madness” – I like that article title for some reason….. ;)

I actually do like how the Magic uniforms look in the Dwight Howard video (which was quickly altered to delete any footage of Howard in the unis). The neckline doesn’t look nearly as strange as it did in the leaked Lee photo, which confirms most people’s beliefs that Lee was wearing a jersey one or two sizes too big for him. In fact, I like the neckline, and I like the font and size of the team city/name on the front of these jerseys.

My belief is that we will see pinstripes, based on the earlier Lee photo. Also, the way the black stripe on either side of the top of the jersey curves outward from top, and then inward on the bottom of the shorts, would confirm the way the stripes curved on a road jersey that a prominent poster on a Magic message board saw awhile back.

Personally, if what Howard was wearing are the new uniforms – then I like them. However, adding pinstripes (if the pinstripes are done well) would turn “like” into “love”.

Here is a photoshopped pic I made that shows off what pinstripes could look like on the road uni:

(Keep in mind that this is based on both the Lee photo and an earlier mock-up made by someone else using input from the poster who saw a Magic uniform awhile back)

by MagicMadness on Sep 6, 2008 12:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs