who knew the NBL were back in the clothing/apparel game?

I saw some small drawstring gear bags bags on a KMart last weekend. Abou5 the size of a swimming gear bag.

My first thought was that the store was trying a hustle to sell leftover shoe bags from the old Andrew Gaze range.

http://www.kmart.com.au/category/sports/features/nbl/464512

Wonder why they used Dan Dillon? He isn't an active NBL player?

Thought they would use high profile NBL/Boomers as would make sense from a branding point of view

"There was a big announcement earlier in the week about the NBL launching its own apparel line, which will provide all NBL jerseys, 3x3 hustle gear, etc."

The K Mart apparel isn't the same stuff. I actually bought a few of their T Shirts for gym. Not bad fits and look for 10 bucks each.

Kmart would've bought the license to produce the NBL branded stuff. Then they would've organised their own brand rep and model. Probably didn't matter to them that DIllon doesn't play NBL, as long as he is a basketball player.

Can't fault the pricing

I like the pricing. Unlike the $80+ jerseys on sale at games, it might help get the brand out there on kids, etc.

Hope that LK's venture into the clothing market is better that what he has produced with the NBL. Maybe the quality of the clothing he is producing is of a better quality that the refereeing of the NBL has been this year.

One thing that helps is that the branding is largely muted. Not sure if they still do it or even if they still exist, but remember the And 1 gear from a decade ago with those illustrated characters? Pretty horrible.

Really glad to see them take this accessible road with base merch.

This isn't meant to be the top-of-the-line merch. It is meant to be cheap bargain clothing that will get the logo out there to as many people as possible and i think it will do okay. I'll be rocking the shirts happily at the gym. They seriously don't look too bad.

Shoelaces can be changed if you don't like them

Unlike Henny Penny, who flapped about screaming, "The sky is falling." Or like an anonypenny flapping, “That’s not an analogy. That’s an analysis.”

Also:
“thats” not a word;
“that’s” a word.

The funny looking thing before the “s”: it’s an apostrophe of contraction. Used as a matter of convention to indicate that a letter (or sometimes letters) have been removed to contract a word (and in this case it also signifies a second word being added to create a new word).

Further:
when copying definitions from a dictionary, it doesn’t help much to include examples of word use that are too narrow. Dysgraphia and dyslexia belong to a particular “vocalect” shared between people in vocations such as speech pathology, occupational therapy and psychology etc. The other use cited reads to me like an analogy to explain systems theory via analogy to biology, even though systems theory draws directly from biology for its theoretical basis.

See, an analysis of the (unacknowledged) dictionary sources renders the explanation less clear than ever before.

Or... we could all just accept that we all have our own views, and if you think you can express yourself better than others on the forum... good for you but there’s no need to offer critical analysis of someone else’s writing skills.

Oh Gees,
So they come in Blue/Grey, and Black/Red.Wonder which markets they're targetting??

Unfortunately your typical Australian consumer only sees as far as their own wallet. "It's cheap for me, it must be good."

Speciality sports stores I have found (in my geo-limited experience) generally try that bit harder, stock the speciality gear you need, and can be counted on to sponsor Junior sports, etc, etc.
And they are finding the going tougher and tougher. The rents small retailers are charged to subsidise the presence of the big draw-card chains is criminal.

So sure, buy more and more stuff from KMart cos its cheap, but good luck finding those size 15 BBL shoes when you need them.

So sure, buy more and more stuff from KMart cos its cheap, but good luck finding those size 15 BBL shoes when you need them.

Ustradeent.com provide free shipping from order above $149.99 I usually buy many T-shirts in a bulk quantity for getting free shipping

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