Perhaps, the New Orleans Pelicans are conserving their creativity for their basketball instruction to the players.
The New Orleans' NBA franchise officially changed from the Hornets, which went back with the Charlotte franchise, to the Pelicans at the end of the 2012-2013 season. The Pelicans on Thursday unveiled their new uniforms to less than a positive reception, according to USA Today.
Team owner Tom Benson said the new uniforms were fashionable in their simplicity.
"What I like most is that they've got a clean look to them that just stands out," foxsportssouthwest.com reported Benson as saying. "That's what we worked on very hard."
The consensus, however, is that the new look is boring.
The article used Pelicans play-by-play announcer Sean Kelly's explanation behind the design of the jerseys, saying that the font chosen was one inspired by the font of the street signs in New Orleans' French Quarter. Players Anthony Davis, Jrue Holiday, Ryan Anderson and Jason Smith modeled the new uniforms .
Both the home and road uniforms are one color with a yellow V-neck and stripes down the side. Whereas the unveiling of new athletic apparel on teams in the past has drawn whooping and hollering reactions, the Pelicans only drew criticism on Twitter.
From Evan Dunlap, managing editor of orlandopinstripedpost.com: "Pelicans have a terrific name and a wonderful, unique city. Uniforms shouldn't look like result of create-a-team in videogame mode."
Another tweet from Negativedunkalectics read: "It looks like somebody turned the sign for a decrepit public library into basketball jerseys?"
And from J.O. Applegate: "Wow way too conservative on those Pelicans' unis. Not a fan although they're pretty inoffensive."
USA Today argued that the uniforms' tameness is precisely their problem. Even ugly uniforms draw a reaction.
"These don't inspire anything, good or bad," the article stated. "They're just sort of there, which is the worst thing any NBA jersey can be."
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