Number seven: 1985-1990
Not sure what they were thinking here. By they, I don’t mean Stuart Gray, who is pictured here in this badly aligned photo and played for the Pacers for five seasons. That man was born in the heart of the Panama Canal. He knew exactly what he was doing, and still does.
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By they, I mean the designers of this jersey, worn by Pacers for roughly six years before it was mercifully put to rest. Where do I even begin? The shade of blue that they went with seems like the perfect shade of blue to look really gross when sweaty. I don’t know how to measure that, but I’m right.
Horizontal stripes across the jersey almost never look good (looking at you Timberwolves). They make everything look wide and boxy, when NBA athletes are often anything but.
The weird font across the gross horizontal stripe is a whole new beast as well. What was the idea here? Why put some weird kind-of-a-streak-looking-thing-but-mostly-just-an-eyesore break in all the letters? Why not put one in the C if all the other letters were going to have one? It’s such a distraction.
Throw in a weirdly high neckline, and this thing is just a disaster. No, I’m not being too dramatic. No, YOU need to stop being so weirdly attached to things.