The Boston Celtics may be making strides in their on-court chemistry, but if the new alternate uniforms recently leaked via center Enes Kanter’s Instagram are the real deal, the team’s design department still has a lot of work to do.
Since deleted by Boston’s big man, the mysterious uniforms have caused something of a stir on social media as fans weighed in on their appearance.
The color — a bluish-green with gold — is like nothing the team has ever donned in competition. However, the choice could be a gesture to the team’s Irish-American fan base. The Irish flag was actually a blue banner with a harp in the center from 1541 to 1800. But the hue and absence of a harp lend little credence to the mysterious uniform design.
Early reactions on Twitter were visceral, and brutal.
Others shared theories about how these instant classics (for the wrong reasons) may have come into existence:
And some equally nausea-inducing assessments of the colorway:
No word from the team yet as to the veracity of the poorly-received alternates but considering the initial reactions from fans it’s quite possible we never see of these monstrosities in official circles.
