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I seen a link to alternatehero.com, a t-shirt and accessory site, on MotorCitySports.net after I was done reading a very good article by Joe Borri on the quality person that was Chuck Daly.

Right there on the index page was the Bad Boys/Chuck Daly mock up.  I wanted the shirt upon seeing the cleverness of the design and after reading that 50% of the profits on the sale of this shirt will go to Pancreatic Cancer Research at the University of Michigan (Note the purple tie and ribbon?), it was pretty much a no-brainer.  I ordered one and can’t wait to get it.

(They also have some other really rad Motor City sport-centic shirt designs.)

I also wanted to plug it here on PN for any one of the readers of the site looking to pick up some seriously phenomenal swag and support a good cause. It’s a total win-win.

Like Chuck, cancer took my father after a swift two month battle last February.  Wouldn’t be great if one day we wouldn’t have to see our loved ones succumb to such a devastating disease?  God bless.

Remember back when there wasn’t much going on and we had that post about those big head caricature tees? Well, maybe they’ll be making a comeback? Check out this Eminem T (after the jump). (more…)

Not much going on in the way of Pistons news so I started to surf other parts of the web the other day. I came across something on eBay that sent nostalgia shooting down my spine. The auction for this Isiah Thomas / Magic Johnson Salem Sportswear big head caricature t-shirt.

Who else remembers these? I loved these shirts. They were pretty big when I was in grade school, but I don’t see ‘em that much these days. I liked these better than any other types of sports shirts. The best were the group shots like when team’s won championships. Whom ever they commissioned to do the drawings of the athletes was pretty good at it because the likenesses were pretty spot on in most instances.

A friend of the site, Thomas, put me up on this schweet swag. They’re part of the Adidas Homecooked collection that celebrates team’s local culture. Ours celebrates the Motor City. I wasn’t a big fan of some of the NBA gear Adidas has put out ( I just associate Adidas too heavily with soccer and Euros), but these might help me come around.

Click continue reading to check out the shooting jacket.

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Here’s look at the jackets the Pistons will be sporting on Hardwood Classics Nights, the first one coming this Friday against the Bulls.  Pretty sweet right?More info via NBA.com:

During Heritage Week and additional Hardwood Classics Nights throughout the season, the nine teams that will wear retro uniforms are the Boston Celtics (1956-57 Road), Chicago Bulls (1995-96 Second Road), Detroit Pistons (1957-58 Home), Golden State Warriors (1974-75 Road), Houston Rockets (1994-95 Home), Los Angeles Lakers (1987-88 Home), Miami Heat (1988-89 Home), New York Knicks (1972-73 Home), and Philadelphia 76ers (1982-83 Home).During the week, NBA teams will celebrate memorable seasons, rivalries, championships, anniversaries, and historic moments through special ceremonies and promotions. Six nationally televised games will feature seven teams wearing retro uniforms and warm-up gear.

[...]The adidas NBA Heritage Week Collection celebrates teams’ championships. The line includes retro jerseys, footwear, tees and headwear. The signature piece in the collection is the adidas NBA Heritage Week Banner Jacket, which features patches replicating all of the team’s past championship banners on the back. 

To purchase one of these  NBA Heritage shooting jackets click here.  I haven’t found the jerseys for sale yet but they should be available real soon.

Pistons’ players model the team’s winter collection. Fierce!

I’ve given it awhile to grow on me but I’m still not a fan of the Pistons’ shooting shirts. It’s not the colors, because let’s face it, you can’t go wrong with red, white, and blue. It’s just that they’re not basketball enough. These are soccer jerseys imitating basketball shooting shirts. I don’t like cross-sport jersey mojination (Austin Powers 2 term btw).
I like my basketball apparel looking like, well, basketball apparel. That shiny material that the red sleeves are made of, the trademark Adidas 3 stripes running down the arms, the Adidas logo front and center…the Euro invasion knows no bounds.

Even though teams aren’t wearing them (yet) the same rule applies to those Pistons baseball jerseys. It’d be the same if it was a Detroit Tigers basketball jersey. Cross mojination is wrong.

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Totally unrelated, but I’d like to send the Taylor family our deepest condolences, R.I.P. Sean Taylor 1983-2007