Well it's the somethingth NBA All Star Game, and of course I won't be able to watch it because it's on TNT. I read a nauseating article about the lameness of today's NBA players, who say "It's more important to make the team than actually play in the game". It's that kind of lazy modern attitude is the whole reason why the NBA All Star Game means so little to the public. In 1988, when the game was at the old Chicago Stadium, which ended up being Michael Jordan's "rite of passage" in the NBA after his 1988 ASG showing, where he said while pissed off at halftime, "If you guys want to have some fun," then Jordan looked at Coach Mike Fratello and said, "Put somebody else in because I'm not losing in this building". And that was with the East up 60-54.
Nowadays, players are more about having a good time, taking a break from their teams and not worrying about getting hurt. Well okay, then. I just won't give a **** about your league's ASG. Apparently it used to be an honor for an NBA team & city to get the ASG, but not anymore, apparently. There's talk of putting the 2011 ASG in London, because after the '07 Las Vegas incidents and because the league distributes all the ASG tickets, meaning season ticket holders are left out; teams are now rejecting to host the ASG, including the Chicago Bulls. And as I had assumed, David Stern announced that the Seattle SuperSonics will end up moving to Oklahoma City, given either after this season or if they're forced to honor the two years left on their lease. It's partly the NBA's fault for allowing a sale to an ownership with outside-Seattle interests, who ended up confessing they never intended to keep the team in Seattle.
Today I'm officially beginning a quest. On the internet, there's websites with uniform histories of MLB, NFL and NHL, but not of the NBA. So I've decided to start up an NBA uniform history archive, with the help of ebay & basketball cards, NBA.com and a few retro sports memorabilia sites with authentics and replicas to help me on the dates. This is mostly going to be collecting images and renaming the files with dates, and then organizing them by team, with eventually merging graphics so there's a home and a road pic. This is probably going to take me at least a few dozen hours to do this, but mainly I'm going to start working on the 1970s and 1980s, then go to the 1990s, and I'll go from there. And if I ever get around to it, I'll eventually put it on something like Flickr or some website so we can all see it. And since NBA designs tend to be 360 degrees, I find making flat jersey graphics as pointless.