Heat 2012 Off-Season Thread

[Dwyane Wade]

It's the Ray Ray addition that excites me. Honestly I'm not sure what to expect out of Lewis

[Jace]

Originally Posted by doctordrizzay

? Lewis and Allen have been solid Starters their whole career. Now we get them coming off our bench. Thats HUGE.

I understand. While I'm excited and optimistic about Ray's ability to play well next season, you can't discount he's 37 and coming off ankle surgery. Its not like we added a leading young, leading 6th-man candidate. I'm being a little bit contrarian right now, I'll admit. I just don't want us all to get carried away praising our bench again. Look at what Boston did to their bench, even while losing Ray. Imagine how nuts Heat fans would be going if we added Terry, Lee, Melo, and Sullinger.

I don't even need to go into why Lewis isn't a sure thing.



I've been predicting black inaugural throwbacks this season to celebrate 25 years of Heat, but it seems we might go red by league mandate:

NBA Ready to Take us all Back to the ’90s

Hey, remember the ’90s?

Well if you don’t you’re about to get a rude awakening.

For the upcoming 2012-13 season the National Basketball Association and their Hardwood Classics program is set to honour the most experimental period, uniform-wise, in it’s history.

Thanks to a series of Tweets from SaltCityHoops.com’s Spencer Ryan Hall we have gotten a look at what teams will be taking part and what uniforms they’ll be using… and all the classics are there.

See for yourself:

However...

UPDATE (Jul 24/12 @ 13:29 ET): The apparent official Toronto Raptors Media account @RaptorsPR is claiming the Raptors will not be wearing this uniform in the upcoming season, it’s possible that these are then just jerseys adidas is producing for sale and nothing more? No words from any of the other teams listed as of yet…

Gonna scour uni-watch.com to see if they have anything else on this. Those old red Heat jerseys and the pinstripe black Bulls are two of my all-time favorite jerseys. Would be sick to see our guys wearing 'em, particularly Cole if he keeps the flattop. Also like the black Suns a lot. Those Rockets pinstripe jerseys always reminded me of pajamas when I was young. I thought Barkley looked like a big fat toddler.

[Jace]

Ahaaah...the 'Randy' episode is on CC. The moment just happened. Hilarious every time.

[Wade County]

Have so much mad love for those 90s jerseys. Some absolute money ones in there.

[Jace]

From uni-watch.com

Uni Watch News Ticker: “I saw the Spring 2013 Adidas NBA Catalog and there are some new on-court offerings,” says Chris Blackstone. “There are new jerseys for Christmas Day and for home weekend games during the second half of season, called the Winter Court jerseys. They’re monochrome like the all-black Miami uniforms from the past couple years, but in team colors. Also, there are Hardwood Classic jerseys for Indiana (home from 1997-98 through 2004-05), Milwaukee (late ’90s), Chicago (mid-’90s alternate), Atlanta (late-’90s road), Miami (late-’90s alternate), Sacramento (mid-’90s alternate), Phoenix (1990s alternate), Philly (early-’90s road), Cleveland (mid-’90s road), Toronto (late-’90ss home), Houston (late-’90s road), and Utah (late-’90s road).” No word on whether the NBA plans to put ads on throwbacks in 2013.

Perhaps @RaptorsPR has no idea what they're talking aboat.

Interesting with the special Christmas jerseys and 2nd half, weekend home game monochrome jerseys, a la the Heat's all-blacks. Surely we'll see an all-green Celtics, perhaps an all-red Bulls, etc. I really believe we're inching toward an era where every team wears 82 jerseys every season.

[Adam]

I hate the hawk logo for Atlanta. The old pacman style logo was the best. All the animal logos like the hawk or the buck or the wolf are the jock equivalent of those power animal shirts that nerds wear.

[Smithian]

Originally Posted by Jace

Ahaaah...the 'Randy' episode is on CC. The moment just happened. Hilarious every time.

Did you see that ghost?

[Wade2Bosh]

Last week they were dining in Europe with Lebron and his Fiance, and this week the Arison's are dining in Europe with Chris and his wife.

Micky Arison ‏@MickyArison
Wonderful evening with @chrisbosh @MrsAdrienneBosh #Heatfamily

[UD40]

The life of a champ...seems stressful.

[Wade2Bosh]

Chris Bosh ‏@chrisbosh
Just finished dinner. I think I have something in my teeth

[Jace]

Ohhhh...only saw the second picture at work and was wondering how they got Larry to Chris so fast. I wonder if the Bosh's (and now Arisons) are still in Italy. Dwyane should be in London by now.

On LeBatard Micky made it seem like he doesn't talk to the players much, to avoid circumventing the coaching staff, cool to see him hanging with the players early on in the offseason. Surely having a championship to continue celebrating helps.

[Jace]

Looking good. Gotta add a few more years to it though.

[-33-]

Originally Posted by Wade County

Have so much mad love for those 90s jerseys. Some absolute money ones in there.

I had a game-worn Zo jersey just like this...glad we're bringing these back.

[Jace]

Yeah I love the black too, but glad they skipped to the red. Might be my favorite Heat jersey all-time of the seven somewhat-main ones we've seen (both sets of 3 + all-blacks).

[Wade County]

Game worn Zo jersey....you bastard

And yeah, they are gonna look so awesome. Hope we rock red sweats with them too

Although, we could go the Gatling look: