Suns News: The Offseason

[Split T]

Thought this was interesting, nothing we didn't know, but Griffin kinda confirms we had a trade in place for Curry.

[Superbone]

This is the one I use for my desktop at work:

I want that!

[Superbone]

Thought this was interesting, nothing we didn't know, but Griffin kinda confirms we had a trade in place for Curry.

Thanks a lot!

[Mori Chu]

Whenever they change the jerseys, I hold my breath hoping they don't get rid of the purple. They seem to really want to purge purple from the unis for some reason I can't fathom. I love the purple and orange; I think of purple as our main color and orange as our accent color. They seem to want to flip that, making orange our main color (why?? it's so ugly) and purple as the highlight, or sometimes purple absent entirely and replaced by black and gray.

[carey]

As for the absence of purple I can see having 2 teams in our division that also have purple in the uniforms that they wanted to create something they could own a little more. No one does Orange, really accept the Knicks and it's a complimentary color to the blue.

[Indy]

Whenever they change the jerseys, I hold my breath hoping they don't get rid of the purple. They seem to really want to purge purple from the unis for some reason I can't fathom. I love the purple and orange; I think of purple as our main color and orange as our accent color. They seem to want to flip that, making orange our main color (why?? it's so ugly) and purple as the highlight, or sometimes purple absent entirely and replaced by black and gray.

I always think of them equally. I don't like purple without orange. You have to have them both. But I agree they were probably trying to do something different than the lakers and kings.

[The Bobster]

So we just let Sacramento come in and change colors and give up purple because they use it now?

Nope.

[Shabazz]

https://twitter.com/KellanOlson/status/895046563042426880

[In2ition]

https://twitter.com/KellanOlson/status/895046563042426880

2 rebounds? Come on Dragan. Go get that ball!

[Superbone]

https://twitter.com/KellanOlson/status/895046563042426880

2 rebounds? Come on Dragan. Go get that ball!

Hey, give him a break! It was a friendly.

[Wally_West]

I'm not the biggest fan of the orange jerseys, it just seemed too Halloween for me but I did really like the orange "Los Suns" jerseys. Those were fucking dope.

[carey]

So we just let Sacramento come in and change colors and give up purple because they use it now?

Nope.

Was there a time that the Kings weren't purple? I only became an NBA fan when I moved to the valley in '92.

[Indy]

So we just let Sacramento come in and change colors and give up purple because they use it now?

Nope.

I was not agreeing with the approach...

[Indy]

So we just let Sacramento come in and change colors and give up purple because they use it now?

Nope.

Was there a time that the Kings weren't purple? I only became an NBA fan when I moved to the valley in '92.

THey are the same team that was the KC Royals, right? Red white and blue? Not sure if they switched to purple when the move happened or later.

[O_Gardino]

I don't know what the Suns reasoning is behind minimizing the purple and orange, but I can tell you that both colors are accent colors in most of the US. People just don't buy many clothes that are mostly purple or mostly orange.

[The Bobster]

So we just let Sacramento come in and change colors and give up purple because they use it now?

Nope.

Was there a time that the Kings weren't purple? I only became an NBA fan when I moved to the valley in '92.

THey are the same team that was the KC Royals, right? Red white and blue? Not sure if they switched to purple when the move happened or later.

The Kings franchise started playing in 1923 as the Rochester Seagrams, becoming the Rochester Royals in 1945-46 when they joined the old National Basketball League. They moved to the NBA (then the Basketball Association of America) in 1948. The Royals/Kings are the oldest franchise in the NBA (the Pistons would be next, they started play in 1939 in Fort Wayne).

Their NBA timeline -
1948-57 - Rochester Royals
1957-72 - Cincinnati Royals
1972-75 - Kansas City-Omaha Kings (they changed their name since there was already a KC Royals baseball team)
1975-85 - Kansas City Kings
1985-17 - Sacramento Kings

The Kings wore Royal blue, red & white up to 1994 when they changed to purple, black , silver & white and then last year changed to purple, "granite" and white.

[The Bobster]

The Sacramento Kings and Arizona Cardinals have some strange similarities in their histories.

They are both the oldest franchises in their league, they had their best success in their original cities (the Royals won the NBA championship in 1950-51, the Cardinals won the NFL championship in 1947). Both eventually moved to another city where there was already a team with the same nickname (Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals), but both eventually moved out West to a state capital in the 1980's where both have had a few good seasons among many bad ones while struggling to get new venues built for them.

[The Bobster]

So we just let Sacramento come in and change colors and give up purple because they use it now?

Nope.

I was not agreeing with the approach...

I was referring to the Suns' minimizing of the color of course. They didn't exactly give us a vote! I think most of us were perfectly happy when the colors were purple, orange and white, and some of us were even fine with black as an accent color.

The whole BFBS (black for back's sake) fad took over in team colors in the 1990's and the Suns jumped on the bandwagon, starting with the alternate black version of the 1992-93 uniform, which was very popular. Since then black has slowly started to creep into their color scheme more prominently.

[Indy]

So we just let Sacramento come in and change colors and give up purple because they use it now?

Nope.

I was not agreeing with the approach...

I was referring to the Suns' minimizing of the color of course. They didn't exactly give us a vote! I think most of us were perfectly happy when the colors were purple, orange and white, and some of us were even fine with black as an accent color.

The whole BFBS (black for back's sake) fad took over in team colors in the 1990's and the Suns jumped on the bandwagon, starting with the alternate black version of the 1992-93 uniform, which was very popular. Since then black has slowly started to creep into their color scheme more prominently.

Yeah, I think that goes into OG's comment that most people don't buy clothing that has a primary color of purple or orange. Black, white, red, blue, and maybe green. After that, most are accent colors for shirts/jackets.

[The Bobster]

And yet there has been an explosion of purple-based teams.

NBA teams with purple in their team colors -

Charlotte Hornets - 1988-02, 2014-17 (as an accent color)
Denver Nuggets - 1982-93 (as an accent color - there was a minimal amount on their skyline uniforms)
Los Angeles Lakers - 1967-17 (originally they called it "forum blue")
Milwaukee Bucks - 1993-06
New Orleans Hornets - 2002-13 (as an accent color)
New Orleans Jazz/Utah Jazz - 1974-04 (purple, gold and green are the colors of Mardi Gras)
Phoenix Suns 1968-17
Sacramento Kings - 1994-17
Toronto Raptors - 1995-08

In the late 60's and early 70's there were really only four major league teams wearing purple as one of their main colors - the Suns and Lakers in the NBA, the Minnesota Vikings (who were the first to use it in 1961) in the NFL and the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL (the Lakers and LA Kings were both owned by Jack Kent Cooke). The Jazz expansion team using it in 1974 made sense due to the Mardi Gras connection, but then the floodgates opened and new teams like the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Toronto Raptors, Colorado Rockies and the Diamondbacks adopted it as did the relocated Baltimore Ravens of the NFL and some established teams like the Sacramento Kings and Milwaukee Bucks started using it.

I doubt the Kings will ever change back (red, white & blue are kind of owned in the NBA by the Pistons, 76ers and Wizards - although all three got away from it for a while).

Purple & orange are the Suns colors though. They should own them. Clemson is about the only other sports team that is identified with those colors. They's still unique like the Dolphin's aqua & orange.