Cavs unveil three new uniforms, giving them one for every day of the week

Even on a night that saw the long-awaited end of the nettlesome contract standoff with reserve power forward Tristan Thompson, Cleveland Cavaliers fans would be forgiven for feeling a bit queasy about the product they'd be watching on the floor this coming season after this Wednesday tweet from owner Dan Gilbert:

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1 of these 3 will debut tonight at @CavsWGUnited event as a new @Cavs uni. Here's a sneak peek. Which is your fav? http://pic.twitter.com/wjthgMhSSv

— Dan Gilbert (@cavsdan) October 21, 2015

Alas, those thudding duds were just another classic Dan Gilbert goof. Here are the alternate uniforms the Cavs will actually don during the 2015-16 campaign:

Entering our 45th season by paying homage to the past. NEW CAVS JERSEYS: https://t.co/2sXLX6u8aS #CavsStyle http://pic.twitter.com/SyZDJ6rxr2

— Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) October 22, 2015

Those are a bit more like it, Mr. Gilbert.

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Here's what the three new kits look like on Mo Williams, Richard Jefferson and Iman Shumpert:

Are these three better? @Cavs will be wearing ALL three this season... http://pic.twitter.com/1LdO74wfvI

— Dan Gilbert (@cavsdan) October 22, 2015

The new threads line up with the designs that appeared in July's massive leak of new uni mockups. The gold strips reach back to the mid-to-late-'70s heyday of Bill Fitch's crew. The wine unis represent a remix of the numbers worn by Mark Price, Brad Daugherty, Ron Harper and the gang for Lenny Wilkens' teams in the '80s, which LeBron James and company wore as alternates during the 2009-10 season; and the black ensembles tip their caps to the somewhat regrettable blue-tinged '90s garb worn by the likes of Chris Mills and a young, spry Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Appropriately enough, the look inspired by the least-attractive past design is also the one that will now bear sleeves; we're sure King James is just thrilled.

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The three new looks will join the navy blue alternates introduced before last season, their home whites, their road reds and their gold third jerseys — and, since Cleveland's set to take on the Golden State Warriors in an NBA Finals rematch on Dec. 25, the purportedly-dope-as-heck Christmas Day unis — giving LeBron, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love and the gang eight different uniform combinations to rock this season. That, of course, means eight different sets of official team apparel for fans to cop; hey, the underwriting for that nine-figure payroll has to come from somewhere.

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