NEW JERSEY NETS This franchise has made more bad fashion choices over the years than Madonna—remember the powder-blue jobs that looked as if they had been tie-dyed?—but with their new jerseys the Nets have finally figured out that the simple, classic look is the best. The road uniforms are navy blue with NEW JERSEY across the chest in white block letters, and the home jerseys are white with NETS in navy. The new logo is still boring, though, probably because there's just not much you can do with Nets. Now that the team has had a uniform change, the next move should be a name change.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS First, any change that eliminates those red road uniforms is a good one. The new road unis sport a deep blue that is refined and understated. We would have gone with darker lettering on the white home uniforms, but that's a minor quibble. Overall, the look is solid enough to make you forget that the name Washington Wizards sounds like a team of five stumpy guys chasing after the Globetrotters.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS The thunderbolt works. The Warriors needed something to spice up their plain-vanilla uniforms, and combined with the darker blue they've adopted, the bolt—or bolts, we should say, because there are fingers of lightning across the chest, down the side of the jersey and on the shorts—gives them a tougher look. That is, until you see the figure in the logo, which appears on the front of the shorts. He looks too much like a Power Ranger to be taken seriously. The home threads are white with WARRIORS across the chest, and the road uniforms are midnight blue, which according to the team represents "the purity, loyalty and success of ancient and mythological Warriors." Like Joe Barry Carroll?

INDIANA PACERS From Flo Jo to Old Navy. The old blue-and-yellow duds, designed in 1990 by Florence Griffith Joyner, are out, replaced by a new pinstriped motif courtesy of Old Navy—a division of the Gap. The white home unis feature navy stripes, and the blue road ensemble has gold stripes; both have INDIANA in bold letters across the front. It's a nice look, but vertical stripes tend to have a slimming effect, and doesn't Reggie Miller look skinny enough already?

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS Adding touches of silver, gold and black to the red-white-and-blue color scheme nicely updates the look, but the uniform top has a little too much going on. The home uniforms are white, the road are blue, and both feature the new logo. General rule of thumb: Pictures on the front of shirts make the uniforms look cartoonish. We don't need little sneakered dinosaurs dribbling a ball (this means you, Raptors), and, Sixers, we don't need basketballs leaving a jet stream beneath the team name.

—Phil Taylor