After a game in Madison Square Garden, I saw Steph talking to a very “peculiar” looking girl. When we sat down on the plane that night (Steph sat right in front of me), I asked him who she was. He said it was a friend of his and that she happened to be a successful “adult film actress.” He then reached into his bag and showed me an autographed copy of her latest DVD project. “You want to watch it?” he asked me with a big smile on his face. “No thanks…. I’m good.” Then he put it on his computer and started watching it, as if it were just another episode of 24. That’s the only time I’ve ever seen that on a team flight.
In other news, it looks like the Jazz will be changing their uniforms and going back to the "note" as the full-time logo. I kind of wish they would just keep these green and golds. The word "updated", when used with uniforms, makes me kind of barfy.
Hopefully, the Jazz take heed to this (from the article) and don't update things too much:
There is a belief in the organization that the music note better identifies the Jazz brand than the mountain logo.
The green and yellow throwbacks have been well received, Rigby said, and the Jazz have a 6-1 record in them.
"I've been really impressed with the response that we're getting from the young fans of how much they really enjoy the throwback and the whole look," Rigby said. "The players have enjoyed it, the fans have enjoyed it. There seems to be a real interest in this market for looking at that."
Rigby added that late Jazz owner Larry Miller was a fan of the music note from a tradition standpoint.
Should they return to their old logo, the Jazz would become the second NBA team to do so in as many seasons. The Philadelphia 76ers this season brought back the familiar red, white and blue colors and logo from their championship past.
"We were seeing a lot more of the retro gear before we made the change," said Lara Price, the Sixers' vice president of business operations, "and then we started doing some surveys and the fan feedback was they loved that old logo and they wanted to go back.
"We got an overwhelming response that they loved us going back to our old logo. Our season-ticket holders and our fan base were very happy about it."
The Sixers have enjoyed an increase in merchandise sales, Price added, even during a 16-31 season. She said the team had to begin alerting retailers and phasing out merchandise about a year and a half in advance of the logo change.
How did I miss this dunk?
Players whose pride Boozer has murdered this season: Udonis Haslem, DeJuan Blair.
I'm not going to lie. I'm concerned about the updated jersey. The note logo and the color scheme are great, but just as important is the crisp simplicity of the design. The green uniforms don't waste your time. They exude quite confidence and efficiency. They are the Don Draper of uniforms.
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