Klondike’s sponsorship of the Kansas City Oracle League franchise was tragically short-lived as the company relinquished control following a notorious trip to a East St. Louis strip club by an intoxicated Amar’e Stoudamire, in which he stood on a table, unzipped his pants and began chanting the company’s famous slogan until he could be restrained by club security.
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When Nicki Minaj showed up at the BET Awards wearing a replica Hartford Lux Bond & Green jersey designed by Harry Winston and worth $2.6 million, the jersey became de riguer in the hip hop community.
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Although the team never gelled and failed to make the playoffs, most credit the working LED headlights of the Las Vegas Lexus jersey as the reason Kevin Love won the Oracle League All-Star Game Slam Dunk Contest.
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In Paul Lukas’ Oracle League edition of UniWatch, he called the Pittsburgh $5 Footlong jerseys “perhaps the most aggressively ugly uniforms in the history of sports, and yes that includes Oregon.”
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The Anaheim Activision Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare “Desert Camo” jerseys were short-lived as team co-captain Lebron James demanded their replacement when, playing an exhibition game before a “Salute to the Troops” crowd, Kobe Bryant, unable to see King James, drilled him in the face with an outlet pass.
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The San Jose Intel Core i7 jersey’s futuristic appearance hid a dark secret that would eventually sink the team - in what came to be known as “Chip-Gate”, it was discovered that the chip logo on the jersey was actually the functioning command center of a cybernetic system that fed real-time sabermetric information about the game directly to implanted HUD units in its players’ retinas.
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Rumor has it that Oracle League co-founder Bill Simmons was so excited by the throwback look of the Baltimore Barbasol jersey that he (unsuccessfully) petitioned league benefactor Larry Ellison to use the ABA red, white, and blue basketball for Baltimore home games.
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Seattle’s Best “Latte” jerseys never caught on with Oracle League fans, but were very popular in the Seattle hipster scene, especially when Kevin Durant appeared at a preseason press conference wearing a bow tie and horn rimmed glasses.
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Although Atlanta ended up not making the final cut of cities for the Oracle League, their jerseys would end up becoming the hottest sellers, and ubiquitous on Georgia playgrounds.
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Bill Simmons and Jay Caspian Kang present The Oracle League
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