NBA Store: Newfound Glory

The new NBA Store opened on fifth avenue earlier this year. I'd been to the old NBA store. It was awesome, large and full of NBA wonder, from the past and present. This new NBA store is similar, but on a smaller scale. It features everything you could want from todays NBA. Ricky Rubio uniforms, NBA notebooks and shoes you can pay for with a body organ I'm sure. It's cool, but what's the new NBA store missing? The historic values of the old NBA. Gone are the fabulous pictures of past players and the feeling that the NBA remembers and values its past. While that's undoubtedly due to the smaller location, it's still a huge hole. After experiencing the old store, it's clear that this location isn't big enough to hold all the amazingness. Surely the NBA saw the chance to get another prime location as something to jump on. That's understandable. The problem is these exclusions further obscure the greatness of past players. Young fans hear less abo...