I still don't get the "H-town" thing. Nobody ever said that when I was a young man and even now, I only hear it sarcastically--as in buddy pretending to be slimy Hollywood agent: "Hey, let's do lunch in H-town sometime." It's the same number of syllables as Houston. With the dash, it's only one character shorter than Houston. It's unoriginal, a cliched derivative. Houston has other, more original, nicknames besides Space City and the pedestrian H-town that would be cool to base an occasional uniform on: Bayou City, Clutch City, Mutt City, Energy Capital, and Big Heart. A Dream-based uniform has potential too. Point is, they had options and made a very plain, bland choice. This uniform is the UK food of the basketball world.
Well, I don't know when you were a young man, but there was the group H-Town in the early 90s. The "ton" means "town" in a lot of city names. From what I understand, the etymology of the word directs to its literal meaning being "Hugh's Town". Jargon/language changes over time. There are a lot of things back in the 80s I used to laugh at that people in the 40's and 50's used to say. They all talked weird!
It looks like someone took a mouse and clicked and dragged the H-Town logo on a generic Photoshop jersey.
The shorts have leaked. That Rockets Summit logo better be the center court logo for the City Edition court…
How are the shorts that much nicer than the actual jersey? So glad I bought the Dunkstranought jersey before it was buried in history, they should've just kept that a few years tbh.
Rockets marketing does some weird things... they kept the dumb pinstripes remix for two seasons because they were popular (still don't understand why?), and then they make a more popular jersey with a ridiculously good logo that everyone in basketball thinks is cool as hell even if they aren't Rockets fans, and they chuck it in the bin after 1 season.
To pick up all the change that gets thrown at the players for looking so broke wearing them bootleg ass looking jerseys lol
Tbh swap out the blue for mustard and I would've rocked with the Dunkstranought design as the new main jersey (then flip the colourway to red for the road jersey or whatever the **** they call it now.) It is crazy though, both the jersey and the mascot himself should've stayed around. Even with Clutch being better than most of the bargain basement mascots around the league right now the dunkstranought was a stroke of genius, we coulda had both for sure. Clutch for the cute ****, Dunkstranought for the dunking squad.
