Reply With QuoteHere is more information on the retro jersey's that the Pacers will be wearing.
Pacers to try retro ABA uniforms
By Mark Montieth
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October 16, 2003
The Indiana Pacers will put aside supers ion and wear retro uniforms this season.
The Pacers will don the distinctive uniform worn by the 1973 ABA champions in at least six games this season, four at home and at least two on the road.
The uniform features blue and gold stripes that drape from the left shoulder, across the chest and down the right side.
"Cool," Reggie Miller said. "That should be awesome."
The Pacers haven't worn a retro uniform since March 31, 1995, when they lost a home game to a poor Denver team.
Donnie Walsh, team president at the time, swore then they would never wear retro uniforms again.
"Time has healed that wound," Larry Mago, the Pacers senior vice president of marketing, said. "He was in favor of it."
A replica of George McGinnis' jersey already is available in the Pacers' gift shop. Replica uniforms of current players will go on sale on Thanksgiving Day, when the Pacers will wear them for the first time against New York.
"It's unique and it's different from the last throwback," Mago said.
The uniform also will be worn for home games against Atlanta on Dec. 12, Phoenix on Jan. 28 and Dallas on March 24. Atlanta will wear retros that inspired the Pacers uniform in the early 1970s.
The Pacers also will wear the white retro uniforms for games at Chicago on Feb. 10 and Orlando on March 26. They also might wear them for a seventh time, a Jan. 19 game at Atlanta.
Those teams will wear retro road uniforms in those games.
Mago said the Pacers are not considering any changes to their regular uniform.
