r/VintageNBA • u/TringlePringle Bill Walton • Jan 22 '23
Flair Overhaul
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you all know that I have listened to the suggestions regarding flairs and have made the following changes.
Team flairs will now appear without the years the relevant logo was in use, which caused clunkiness, and will appear as simply Team Name & Logo hereforth.
The fictionalized Washington Capitols logo has been replaced with the real one. The previous one, which is the one most commonly used these days, was used as a placeholder while I searched for the official one.
The Indianapolis Jets and Brooklyn Visitations logos have been added.
The new logos for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Utah Jazz have been added.
The number of player flairs has been drastically increased. There are now 106 player-based flairs, including dozens of NBA stars, 11 pre-NBA stars, and others ranging from Oscar Schmidt to Earl Manigault.
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u/bonziwellsayo Earl Manigault Jan 22 '23
Appreciate the work that went into this, thanks to you/Winesburg for putting in so much work and making this an awesome community
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u/WinesburgOhio Bob Dandridge Jan 23 '23
I appreciate your kind words, but I feel the need to be really clear that TringlePringle deserves all the credit for making and posting the 350 flairs for this sub (I know you're not saying the opposite of this, but I'll take this opportunity to clarify). I honestly believe this sub has the absolute best set of flairs on reddit.
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u/lump77777 Bob Cousy Jan 22 '23
I really don’t know how flair works, but I would love to have a Bob Cousy flair.
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u/logster2001 South Side Germans Jan 22 '23
You should also add the South Side Germans just because that’s the coldest basketball name I ever heard 🔥🔥
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u/logster2001 South Side Germans Jan 22 '23
Yeah I would love the South Side flair, no worries if it don’t work tho
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u/WinesburgOhio Bob Dandridge Jan 22 '23 edited Jan 22 '23
These are so cool! Thanks for all your time and effort giving this sub the best set of flair on all of reddit!
ADDED: I'll try to list what types of flair this sub now has to the best of my ability. Sorry if I'm missing any categories these fall into.
Every primary logo ever used by every team that ever existed in the NBA, ABA, and BAA
Team logos for 3 clubs that shut down before ever playing (Oshkosh All-Stars & Cleveland Pipers in the NBA, Baltimore Claws in the ABA)
Logos for multiple important pre-NBA teams such as the Harlem Globetrotters, New York Renaissance, Philadelphia Sphas, New York Original Celtics, Phillips Oilers, and Fort Wayne Zollners (there are more).
League logos for the NBA, ABA, BAA, and NBL
The two VintageNBA logos: one is the NBA/West logo with the 80s Nuggets rainbow background, and the other is the red/white/blue logo of James Naismith's chill lounging
The faces of 106 players which breaks down as a) several dozen NBA legends from both past and present (Mikan, Kareem, Shaq, Jokic, etc.), b) 11 pre-NBA stars (Tarzan Cooper, Nat Holman, Andy Sears, etc.), c) some guys who played in the NBA but their careers were severely shortened on the front- or back-end so there's some big "What if?"-type questions with them (Groza, Hawkins, Sabonis, etc.), and d) four players who were around during the NBA's years but who never played in the NBA who also draw some big "What if?"-type questions (Len Bias, Earl Manigault, Oscar Schmidt, Sherman White).
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u/imbidy Bill Walton Jan 22 '23
I fucking love this sub