Hey, they’re actually pretty good
The Cavs unveiled their new uniforms today and, after thinking about it, they’re not all that bad.
According to the team: “The uniforms feature a deep wine and bright gold that echo the hues from the early 1970s, with a simplistic, yet bold, design and introduce several new and unique design elements. The front of the home white jersey displays a new official team wordmark Cavaliers in wine across the chest, and the front of the road wine jersey the new wordmark reads Cleveland in white.
“On both uniforms, special details make them distinctive. The Cavaliers DNA statement: ‘All for One. One for All’ is printed along the back of the inner-collar of the crew neck jersey, and the Cavaliers secondary logo ‘C-sword’ appears on both sides of the shorts.”
OK, so they’re not really out there, design wise, but they are certainly better than what the team wore a few years ago when they strangely went with a black-and-blue uniform combo.
The uniforms are clean, with a traditional, old-school look that actually fits in nicely with the other pro teams in town. The Browns have one of the best and most iconic uniforms in the NFL, if not all of sports; while the Indians (as long as they stay away from the blue softball tops) also have a nice old-school look, especially when they wear their cream-colored uniforms.
The new uniforms also got the Uni Watch seal of approval. But then Paul Lukas contradicted his own site in a posting today on ESPN.
Now if the Cavs could only come up with their own version of this for their third jersey, they’d really be cooking. That may be the sweetest jersey ever created and it would be fun to see what a Cleveland version would look like. More info on that particular jersey can be found here.
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We could have used some of that motivation in Game 5, yes? Or perhaps a bit more maturity.
Red Right 88 
