Goodbye, Delaware 87ers. Hello, Delaware Blue Coats.
After five seasons, the Philadelphia 76ers have decided to rebrand their NBA G League affiliate ahead of the team’s planned move into an all-new, state-of-art field house on the Wilmington riverfront next season.
“It really puts the team in a more proper light to Delaware as well as 76ers fans,” Chris Heck, the Sixers president of business operations, said of the Blue Coats’ new name, uniforms and branding.
The 87ers, while a fun play on the 76ers, was a bit of a head scratcher to fans who didn’t know that both Delaware and Pennsylvania ratified the Constitution in 1787.