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League graphic artist releases superhero/NBA uniform crossovers

NBA graphic designer Mikey Halim put together a collection of superhero-NBA team crossover jerseys, including one for the Boston Celtics.

To a lot of us, NBA stars are the closest thing we get to superheroes.

They soar through the air, block devastating offense with their bare hands, and are among the few people who actually have the muscular, athletic builds we associate with our favorite comic book heroes.

So it isn’t quite the leap one might think to mash up popular superheroes and NBA jerseys — which is exactly what NBA graphic designer Mikey Halim did on his Instagram.

Halim, who works not only with the NBA but also FIBA and other high-profile sporting clients, put together a host of such crossovers for our entertainment, including one for the Boston Celtics.

While there’s too many to show them all, the Celtics Wire decided to share some of the more impressive ones — so let’s take a look.

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Boston Celtics rate 2nd-best, 5th-worst jerseys in ESPN rankings

The Boston Celtics have the second-best and fifth-worst jersey designs of all time according to ESPN.

The Boston Celtics are usually in the conversation when it comes to the best jerseys of all time in NBA history.

Unfortunately some recent tinkering with that classic look put Boston into the conversation of the worst ever created as well.

The Celtics infamous ‘underoos’ sleeved jerseys — the hideous gray, green and white pajama tops of the 2014-15 season — were ugly enough to land No. 5 all-time on ESPN’s Ryan McGee’s list of the “bottom ten” jerseys that were, as McGee relates, “so heinous that even Dwayne Schintzius would shout “Damn, that’s ugly!” as he moussed up his mullet on the bench.”

The sleeved jersey era has for the most part been consigned to the dustbin of history as both players and fans agreed the awkward constructions did not work well as jerseys or fashion or memorabilia to stick around in the effervescent world of NBA fashion.

And it only takes a glance to see why, with the visual result being much closer to the late seventies and early eighties fashion item par excellence for toddlers — underoos.

But then much of the disgust must come from the lofty purchase the classic Celtics jersey signifies in our collective subconscious, no?

Even ESPN was generous enough to rank the classic green-and-white jersey (below, and also sported at the head of the article by Larry himself) as their second-best designed uniform top of all-time, after all.

Worn by the team from 1972 to 2014, the only major change since has been swapping out “Boston” for “Celtics”, and then back again in 2014.

As has been said about many things, if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.

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By the numbers – ranking Boston’s players by jersey: No. 54

Who were the best Boston Celtics to wear each jersey number? As we wait for the 2019-20 NBA season to resume, the Celtics Wire investigates.

Six players have worn No. 54 in the seven-decade history of the Boston Celtics, and in our series documenting the best to wear each jersey, it’s the next on the Celtics Wire’s list to analyze.

Working our way from 99 on down to 00, we’re starting with the most popular unretired jerseys, those worn by at least three players over the history of the franchise to date.

Spanning the years between 1978 and 2012, there was a lot of basketball that was played in this jersey — and some of it quite good. There was one nearly-forgettable season offered up by a player wearing No. 54, though.

Let’s get that out of the way first.

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By the numbers – ranking Boston’s players by jersey: No. 99

Who are the best Boston Celtics to wear each jersey number? As we wait for the 2019-20 NBA season to resume, the Celtics Wire investigates.

Who were the greatest players in Boston Celtics history to wear each jersey throughout the team’s rich, seven-decade history?

With so much history to work with, more than a few jersey numbers have been worn by multiple players of note, many even headed to or already ensconced in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Others aren’t so clear, but the Celtics Wire will make a case for all the jerseys with at least three former or current players wearing them, and we’ll start from the top in our first article assessing the impact of each Celtic by the number they wore.

Working in reverse order, we begin with No. 99.

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