subject: Houston Red Jersey : the Classic in the History of NBA [print this page] Houston Red Jersey : the Classic in the History of NBA
Whenever a new style of NBA shirt reveals itself, it opens a new page in the team history of NBA. l Have What Isla Fisher Having: While looking back to the development of shirts of Rockets, we could easily find that it is also the history of growing of Rockets.
The camp of Rockets was originally located in San Diego when it entered into the NBA in the 67-68season. San Diego Rockets was originally the green shirt Army, being green with yellow edge and yellow character, and its team's name reflected the major industry of the San Diego city in the space-age of the United States. In 1971, investor from Texas team acquired Rockets and brought it to Houston, from which they began to use red and gold as main key which now are well known in every household. In 1972, Rockets jersey had some subtle change: the golden Houston word was replaced into white color, also the font to be italic, and in addition, added the team logo to the right side of the shorts. The jersey design with red alternating with white, being simple and generous, gave more jagged sense, making people feel the forge spirit of unity of the Rockets. The design has been lasted to middle 1990, witnessing two Rockets glory of taking crown led by Olajuwon, accompanied their respective beat New York Knicks and Orlando Magic to taking champion in continuous two years.
In 1995 Rockets made big changes after winning champions continuously: from red and golden to blue red, adding white vertical stripes, logo into small rockets in more cartoon style, but luck has been changed meanwhile. Charles Barkley wore nba jerseys expedition four seasons for the rocket, he was unable to eat a taste of championship rings. When Yao Ming into the NBA, he also dressed in this shirt and, the result was the Rockets in the old to the new did not go into the playoffs, and then this shirt had also been surrendered by the team.
Following the combination , the Rockets intended to create a new image for the Rockets fans he also sought to, so the next season they have also changed the jerseys and logo. Simpler and more modern logo was applied. And the official color was changed back to red from blue. The shirt was white at home and red on the way. The letter "R" was designed into a image of a rising rocket. And this kind of red polo shirt, with silver-white sword, full of modern sense, just catered for the completely new symbol of team. Wearing a new jersey, this season, the Rockets is finally back into the playoffs, opening a glorious new chapter in history. To honor removing to Houston, Rockets in individual game wore vintage coat armor of 1971. Yao Ming and new partner Mcgrady together wore old jerseys in red golden latter, which implies to reappear past glory and new soar of rockets.
The rocket released after the fourth set of jerseys, red with gold, margins and number are golden yellow, reminiscent of their championship era retro jerseys. When the designers referred to the shirt, they have also emphasized that - to pay tribute to the classics, so that fans can recall the eventful years of Rockets in the past. However, the majority of Huston fans indicated it was very difficult to accept this suit of team cloth, after all the Rockets had a large part of red impression on people, and the Rockets` slogan for last season was also [get red Houston". Nevertheless, this set of new polo shirt was not frequently seen by fans, generally, this special kind of cloth only occurred with reaationary polo shirt at the rocket`s visiting court or at some particular theme game like the reaationary night. In the next season, the red will still be the major tone of Rockets. The gold Rockets could be regarded as a dessert.
