SiWhen the hip-hop
culture breaking the boundaries of human races had become a huge popular
element in the whole Europe and America society, the liberation of personality
had become everyone's slogan. And the very exotic, fancy, strange and clever
jersey designs were all created in this period. For example the Denver Nuggets'
Rainbow jerseys in the 1980s were regarded as a masterpiece ahead of its time
even from today's perspective. Also, the league for the first time gave the
authority to the host city to design and make the All-star jerseys. The boring
All-star jersey was then being developed on the way of professionalization.
But if
the personalization had gone too far, it wouldn't be a good thing either. It
was obvious that every host cities had emphasized on applying the local team
jersey's elements so much that they had ignored the tastes of the whole
American audiences. In 1995 Phoenix All-star Games -- this city's design had
always been either too beautiful or too terrible -- they put a giant cactus
that looked like the manure fork onto an orange/yellow grotesque star in the
jersey.
The
most killing part was the manure fork with this color. The city was quite proud
of it, but this All-star NBA jersey style was almost the worst selling one
ever. Maybe for the design it was not that bad, but obviously it was not
everybody that would love the desert and cactus. In 1996, the situation seemed
worse. The league was hoping the low-profile and honest San Antonio could come
up with an acceptable NBA jersey to bring it back to the right way. However, no
one could imagine that those mint colored jerseys with little peppers would
appear on Jordan's body. The ABC was interviewing an audience who left the game
early and he simply said, "Sorry, but I really have an allergy to
mint."
