West: I always thought the Bulls had a nice uniform, and now we had something that could compete in that area. That one, everyone nodded ‘Yes’ and that was it. … Our little committee kept looking at it, and we kept the NBA’s design department busy for a while. We decided that we should somehow keep the Sunburst on the uniform somewhere. One of them was sort of a goth style, which didn’t fly. That all added to the aura of the year and the jerseys.Īmbrose: The NBA had a design department that we worked with very closely, and they came up with all kinds of ideas. With the Jordan era, there were longer shorts and more vibrant jerseys. We explored a lot of different possibilities … That got shot down pretty quickly.
I even looked at maybe changing the colors even, from purple and orange to maybe silver and dark blue. If you look back, everyone had cartoony uniforms and this was probably one of the most iconic of that time period.Īmbrose: We looked at a lot of different things. Bringing the Suns into that 90s era, they were very 90s uniforms. Really, just the font had changed from the original ’68 font to the western font in ’73. Graham Wincott, Suns Senior Director of Marketing: They hadn’t really overhauled the uniforms in the team’s 25-year history to that point. I always consulted with Colangelo, but also Dick Van Arsdale, who was the original Sun. … It kind of fell to me to put that together. Everything was new going into that season.Īmbrose: Our old uniforms had a western-style typeface and a Sunburst, but it was on the side of the shorts. … We also had a new coach in Paul Westphal. We had the new uniforms coming out, Charles was to the team, we had planned for a new arena from the old Veteran’s Coliseum, and there was just crazy excitement for everyone involved. It was really the anticipation for the new year. Mark West, Suns starting center: It was impressive, just to have something new. And I don’t want to revisit a new logo and uniforms soon. I want to create something modern and bold to reflect the nature of the new arena and the growth of Phoenix. It was the closing of the first chapter in Suns history, after a quarter century as well. Jerry Colangelo, in 1992: We feel it’s the ideal time to change our logo and uniforms with the opening of the new arena. Jerry Colangelo really wanted to see a new, clean, modern look. Tom Ambrose, former Phoenix Suns VP of Marketing: We were moving out of the old Coliseum and moving into the new downtown arena, so that was the real impetus for the uniform change. No excuses.Kevin Johnson (left) and Charles Barkley (Photo courtesy of the Phoenix Suns) The crowd so loud you can’t hear yourself think. Doing it for all the players who wore the uniform before you. 9,000 fans for a school with 800 students. The feeling inside when you lay someone out. And that’s exactly why we take you further.
But the few close enough to get under your skin. We give you our best to get the best from you.
Get you up before the alarm and out sweating. When you’ve believed in every single man around you and dug deep into the reserves of your soul, you can look each other in the eye and know your crown may have been taken away but not without a fight. When you’ve made every bone-crunching tackle and every grinding scrum count.
0 kommentar(er)
