Want to be a part of Team Beasley? (photo. Sasha Nialla)As part of the Dime/Levi’s 501 Draft Suite, we’re hooking all the Lottery picks up with some gear to represent them and their crew on draft night. And while we only created about 10 of these for each player and their people, we’re giving our readers a piece of it, too. Check out this sampling of tee’s and hit us back in the comments section as to why you deserve to get your hands on one of these exclusive shirts and which version you want..
Again, this is just a taste of the selection. But we’re only giving away one of each: Team Beasley, Team Rose, Team Bayless, Team Love, Team Lopez, Team Westbrook, Team Augustin, Team Gordon, Team Jordan, Team Rush, Team Randolph, Team Alexander, and the Welcome to the Draft Suite tee.
Leave your comments below.
Thanks,
Dime and Levi’s
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June 26th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Daily boy says:
I want one cause I’m always on Dime checkin out updates, and got the magazine on my couch right now. Give me the Team Augustin shirt cause I believe in DJ and plus I’m a huge UT fan and saw him a couple of times this year, and I know he’s gonna do good in the NBA. Alright Dime I gotta go to a meeting then clock out. But I do want the Shirt.
P.S. In the Words of Lil Wayne “GO DJ”
June 26th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
JHov says:
I think just because I’m a regular Dime comment contributor, card carrying subscription holder and bball enthusiast! Oh and plus I check Dimemag.com so regularly that I’m second to answer this post(for free stuff no less!)..shows my loyalty! Hook a brother up Austin! lol!
p.s. with that team rose tee in a xl if you please!
June 26th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
MoxWestCoastRep says:
1. I’ve been on the Love Band Wagon all year and even when he was in HS
2. I’m a Dime Loyalist and Subscriber.
3 I’m the West Coast Rep Baby!
As Sir Charles would say…
“Now give me dem shirts!”
June 26th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
agent j says:
What?! NO TEAM MAYO??!!
I’ll take a TEAM ROSE tee though!
June 26th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
rodnets says:
No merchandising for foreign readers? Its always the same…
Im from Argentina, and always drop comments, and read the online version.
Tell me how to get one and I pay the DHL right to Buenos Aires.
Ill send you pics of me rocking the shirt with the obelisco behind.
Peace
Rod
June 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
D'Antonio says:
I am a big slow white boy that did just fine playing ball in college but has no business setting foot in the NBA…
I am pretty sure I deserve this team Lopez jersey.
(team Love sounds good also, but it looks like the T is already gone…)
June 26th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
hahns says:
let me get those bayless t’s please!! bc i gota get me and my boys to wear em around to convince walsh to draft him at six!!!!!
June 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
jay havoc says:
I want one because ive been watcing mike beasley for a while now and i want to represent for one of my favorite players on draft night………..and i hope the heat pick him.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Dan says:
Yo,
I deserve a B-Easy shirt cause I’ve been a loyal reader of Dime online back since it was on FoxSports.com. Every day I read your Smack and love it…it’s the only blog I read religiously. I live in St. Louis and swear I’m basically the only NBA fan I know and I can’t stand the Cardinals. You gotta hook me up with one of those tees so I can rep Dime, B-Easy, and (hopefully) my favorite team Miami well.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
JHart says:
I need the Team Rose in XL because contrary to what Guns-N-Roses said, this Rose has no thorns.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
JA says:
1. Dime website daily reader (regulary through the day) and fairly frequent commenter
2. Dimemag reader / subscriber (and my mag always comes late and I have to email to get it half the time)
3. My last name is Alexander - hook it up
June 26th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Tom says:
I’d like the Beasley tee because I’m a big fan of him. He’s definitely going to be the player with the biggest impact right away and down the road (MVP!). He also brings some much needed comic relief to the whole process–he’s one of the only players who really “acts his age”. So that’s why I should get the Beasley 08 shirt…so just b-easy and pick me.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
len-e says:
i deserve a team beasley jersey ’cause lenny is one of dimes most loyal online and print import european readers, plus you can’t get dope gear like that overseas, nba got’s to be represented.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Da Coach says:
Actually, it was Poison who sang “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn”, not GNR. Don’t ask me why I know that.
Guess you all held the Mayo so i’ll take the Rose for a fact none other than he “ROSE” to the top of the draft board.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Homeless J says:
I’m homeless, give me a shirt!
(occasionally homeless. I have been homeless for lengths of time. I have a roof right now, which is why I’ve been on here more often. so I would have a place to send the shirt.)
I would also really like the Team Love shirt. I grew up in Roseburg Oregon, which is a short drive from Medford (so I got to see Kyle Singler before he went to Duke) and a bit longer of a drive to Lake Oswego (where Kevin played). I think it would be a tremendous charity to let me win something because I live in this horrible little town in the middle of nowhere, and it would also have sentimental value to me, because Kevin Love having success gives all of us small town Oregon dudes hope.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Chris Coburn says:
I deserve a “Team Alexander” tee because like Joe Schmoe, I’m a workout warrior on par with Mike Mammula..and I spent so much time in the gym I lost my job, so I couldn’t buy one myself.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
vinh says:
Let me get that Team Westbrook tee. Im a huge UCLA fan and loyal reader of Dime Smack since it was first published on foxsports.com.
Westbrook’s dunk against Cal was too nasty I ripped off my shirt when I saw it, so I need a new shirt too.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Zach says:
Check it I want a B-ezy XL but hold it til the end of the season and if he isn’t the ROY you can keep it. I been saying Chicago is dumb for not taking him #1. He is by far the best player in the draft.
DISCLAIMER: Back before you guys had the boards, when we emailed comments to ya’ll I said Deron Williams was the next Kalid El Amin (boy was I wrong) but Beasley is MONEY i’m not wrong this time.
And obviously everyone answering this is a regular to Dime (or you wouldn’t know about it)
June 26th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
andrew says:
what, no “team greene” shirt? please dime, show my syracuse man some love!!
June 26th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Gregory says:
Please hook me up with a Team Gordon shirt! I am a lifelong Clippers’ fan, so I need all the love I can get. I will most def sport this shirt around the city to build the hype for the ClipShow!!!
June 26th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
ryan rhodes says:
i think i deserve a team rose shirt because i have been cheering for him since high school and he went to college in my hometown i also am an aspiring ball player and all though i might not be the tallest i try to base my game on his and thats why i believe i deserve the shirt
June 26th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
tom says:
i think i deserve that team alexander tee cuz im chinese!
June 26th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Ronnie Lau says:
Yo! I need a large or medium in that “team love 08″ because he’s a beast. Although my we play opposite positions he can throw dimes for a big man. Plus he go to L.A. so i gotta rep California. TEAM LOVE 08. PEACE!!!
June 26th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Homeless J says:
if I can’t get a Love shirt I would now gladly take a Bayless shirt. if I cant get one of those or any others you might have lying around, I will clothe myself in Wonderbread bags and old newspapers
June 26th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
bob says:
Team Gordon! Mr. Illinois playing alongside Livingston. get me on team gordon
June 26th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Antonio Gil says:
I have to got a T-Shirt because I’m from Spain and nobody is gonna have one of this here… I’ll be the most envy!! hahaha.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Mark says:
Because I’m the first person to publicize the fact that the Griz now have Gay-Love.
(For the record, I do not want a Kevin Love shirt.)
June 26th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Eric says:
Because I’ve been a dime reader for as long as I can remember and stuck in LA attending the school of the 4 and 5’s picks.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
James Blackburn says:
I think I should get a Team Randolph shirt for many reasons- for one I have been a subscriber for 3 years in a row now, I check the website daily and lately several times a day, I am a huge basketball fan and have been since I knew what the round ball was. I want to be an NBA scout and work for the Bobcats- my home town- I want this shirt to wear around after Randolph turns into a Rudy Gay type player to remind people we should of picked him. Thanks a lot Dime for providing exclusives like this- keep up the good work
June 26th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Jeffco says:
i want a team westbrook tee because i live in the los angeles area and ive caught up about him since he was playing prep ball! also im a big time dime fan! i first learned about dime when i got a free subscription from foot locker vip and i have been going to this site daily! i never miss any article and well i love the whole dime team! i play prep basketball and i would love to sport the team westbrook shirt during my summer league games so all my opponents would stare down at me before i put my jersey on and run em down the court (too bad i hurt my ankle this past week) haha
but i definitely deserve it!
if you need any more proof
dime dont be shy to email me
June 26th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
the_don_mega says:
i want one… any of ‘em!!! the reason i deserve it??? i won the freestyle battle against FED, GEE and Chuck!!! cmon Dime!!!
June 26th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
majaleeg says:
I need that team Westbrook joint off the strength MY last name is Westbrook(no Willie BoBo), plus that bastid along with K. Love won my NCAA tourney bracket!
June 26th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
majaleeg says:
^^^^
won me
June 27th, 2008 at 12:56 am
rob stewart says:
Last summer I injured my knee and was very disappointed that I couldn’t play ball for most of the summer. Then I found out my main man Brandon Rush injured his knee as well. But these injuries turned out to be blessings in disguise for both of us. I ended up changing my diet and losing 25lbs to take the weight off my knees and Rush ended up winning a National Championship. God really works in mysterius ways! Please grant me a Team Rush t-shirt to complete our connection of pain to gain.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:08 am
giacomo says:
i will take any one of them although i havd to say that westbrook is my boy. i deserve this because…
i live in australia so i cant pick up an issue of dime at a newsagent, yet i still keep up with you guys everyday, and if i got one of these shirts id be reppin DIME for all of australia to see. can you say ‘international marketing expansion’?
im out like CDR in the first round
June 27th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Christopher Lee says:
I would love to have a Team Derrick Rose. I deserve this tee because FIRST OF ALL i have been a faithful dime magazine reader for the past 2 years when no one knew about Dime magazine. Dime is the place where i check for awesome videos and the crazy cover shots!!
SECOND, Dime magazine not only has allowed me to appreciate nba stars as bball players but also off-court personalities each player has even BEFORE they enter the NBA!!
I DESERVE THIS D. ROSE T_SHIRT!!
June 27th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Jay says:
Hook me up with Team Gordon!! I’m a huge fan of Dime (subscriber and website visitor) for years and I’m a big Clipper fan. I would love to rock a Team Gordon shirt to rep the Clips and Dime!
June 27th, 2008 at 2:55 am
white says:
I should get that team bayless becaus I am a loyal subscriber of your magazine and have been for the last ten years and it would be great if I could get one to support my boi jerryd bayless and you guys should give me the chance to do that
June 27th, 2008 at 3:06 am
J.Durden says:
I should get the team Rose shirt. I have always kept up with the mag and also we were the first people to put out rose footage to the masses back when he was in high school. Him and Reggie loved our mixes and he was even on the cover of our first DVD. Hoopmixtape.com Vol. 1
June 27th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Bond says:
I should get a shirt because I’m on the site all day when I should be working and I love free t-shirts.
The Randolph one would be appropriate because we weigh the same amount, even though I’m 6 or 7 inches shorter. I’m not picky though, I’ll take any one of them.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Keith says:
I Should Get A Team Gordon Tee Because Im Om Dime Mag 24/7
Always waiting For Updates And Always Reading the Magazine Over And Over
Plus Im a Dime Mag Lover
A XL Pretty Please
(Team Gordon)
June 27th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Celts Fan, "Kobe, Tell me how my @$$ tastes" says:
I want a Team Jordan one because I’m on here all the time, I mentioned he’d be a bum and within the hour, Austin had put up the “Bust Alert” post a few months back (so he definitely agreed with me) and then he dropped like crazy last night so we were right.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:30 am
SeKurity says:
Dime crew! Ya’ll have to hook me up with a Team Beasley shirt! I’m from the MD/DC area and run into him and other players all the time… I check out dime EVERYDAY to get the scoop and I had the copy of dime when you had an article about him on my coffee table tryin to convince people he was the truth… I’m believing he is still gonna be a beast and carry over to the league…. Hook me up Dime!
XXL please! ‘preciate cha!
June 27th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Imperial-Mel says:
Aye yo Dime crew, I need that hook up for the Team Alexander shirt, the guy is amazing, and our games are very similar, Im playin at Murray State Univ. and I think in the next 3 yrs. Imma be on yal set. plus my girl loves J.Alexander, she would probably steal the shirt from me, no pantys, you kno wht time it is then…lol but seriously, 2x-3x TEAM ALEXANDER. Ohh btw she from Milwakee. The only choice is me duhh!! Holla at ya boi…dueces
June 27th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Celts Fan, "Kobe, Tell me how my @$$ tastes" says:
Austin, how would we know if we won a shirt?
June 27th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Justin Dalton says:
I should get a team Bayless shirt because I’m a pacers fan, but instead of keeping Bayless and building around him with danny granger they shipped him off to portland. Giving up Jerryd Bayless for Brandon Rush was completely asinine.I need the shirt as a reminder that the pacers missed out on a great player and we will continue to be a subpar team at best. Thanks Larry Bird
June 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Austin Burton says:
What’s up with my Team Hibbert shirt? My Team Ewing Jr. shirt?
(First time in a while no Seattle kids got picked in the Draft; no love for Jon Brockman. But we have Terrence Williams coming up next year.)
June 27th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Celts Fan, "Kobe, Tell me how my @$$ tastes" says:
Dime, you gotta give me that Team Jordan shirt. I can put it with my Kwame Brown jersey, my Loren Woods rookie card, and my Omri Cisse autograph and my Leon Smith framed picture (but seriously, I do want the shirt. they look really cool! XL please fellas…)
June 27th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Saku 39 says:
I could go for a Team Beasley shirt….oh, and why I deserve it.
I Never Got A HoopsTV Shirt!!!
If you want, I can name the top player and song used in your top high school rankings from back in the day!
June 27th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Ashlov says:
I’ve successfully Rick-Rolled readers here at Dime, and while there isn’t a Team Astley shirt, I’d totally dig a Team Beasely shirt.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Eric says:
I deserve a Team Gordon because I feel as if I know Eric Gordon from reading the articles on him in your magazine. I am a big fan of Gordon and I think he will be a stud in the NBA and I would like to add this shirt to my collection because I know it will be worth something in the future.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Mohammed says:
I definitely would love it if i got my hands on Team Rose shirt. Not only would i like to represent chicagos second favorite son behind Obama, i think your shirt design is pretty fly as well. I am a big fan of Dime mag.. and i have actually recommended it to some of my closest friends.. guys who were Slam readers before. I wannna be one of your first ones to represent the Levis brand.. and besides what better way for Levis to spread their brand.. almost like the rose that grew from concrete. Levis is usually not looked by youngsters for first choice of jeans compared to rocawear or any other line , but i like your perfect fitted jeans to professional events as well. I just i gotta say im a huge fan of the mag, of he brand and my guy d-Rose. Thanks.
June 28th, 2008 at 3:06 am
JFIZZLE says:
TEAM ROSE tee XL no doubt
rose is gonna end up being one of the best point guards EVER when its all said in done..everyone in dallas is hating on him saying hes not gonna be that good but i have steady had him as the #1 pick a long time ago! hes the background on my cp and he is an ASSASSIN. if yall cant hook me up with the clean shirt, then yall ATLEAST needa do a derrick rose cover! ima daily smack reader and that shirt is so raw its crazy!
if i cant get the rose shirt then id be willing to settle for the steal in the draft mr. Augustin. yea everyone saying he got picked too early but he is a baaaad baaaad man he is gonna be reeeeaaaaal goood in a couple years, but i do see him getting traded from charlotte! rose for ROY and….MVP.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:44 am
SnoopDoggyDong says:
I don’t think i DESERVE those giveaways more than other Dime readers because you’re the ones who make it rain, Dime!
I’d glad to settle for any of this tees. I think it’d definitely be a nice gift for any of your aficionados. I’ve been checking dime for more than a couple years now, and to be frank i do think that reading smack on a daily basis is the best way i could have find to widen my English vocab/slang –me the Frenchy who was sooo desperate to do it that I even left France a year ago & move to midcoast Maine, where basketball doesn’t really happens…………..
That being said, and being the 54th poster on that thread, i doubt i’ll end up with any gift, but it’d be fun to rock that “Team Love 08″ tee in the small town of Rockland, ME… Not that i’m a huge Love fan but it’d make me some kind of LOVE ambassador, and that’d be HUGE and please the ladies, ahaha
Thanks Dime!
SnoopDoggyDong
June 28th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
GEE...Now can you dig that....Sucka! says:
I deserve a shirt because through word of mouth and otherwise I got so many cats of different races, ages and gender up on DIME down south that didn’t even know the mag. was alive. I am DIME’s down south movement. Although I got cats in North Dakota, Cali and Wisconsin checkin for it now after I put them on but mainly down south. Any shirt will do for me, matter of fact I will take a shirt no else has named or something. Shoot I will take just a black shirt with no print on it even lol it don’t matter. I think cause of my advertising efforts in the South I deserve one though.
June 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
GEE...Now can you dig that....Sucka! says:
Now to this. LOL. @ 31 First Young declared himself the winner and now the_don_mega lol. Now I don’t know if Chuck declared himself a winner too, but I said before lets let the readers who comment decide or DIME decide. But if we just self proclaimin in this joint. LOL then shiiiiiiii….I WON snitches lol.
DIME anytime you all wanna set up a kick your 16 (bars) contest (about basketball or any subject) and the winner gets the prize or prizes lol..I am so in. Dang when you all dropped the Best Season Ever cover that would have been a great time to have it and challenge dudes to drop their best 16 or 8 for why it was the greatest season ever and you (DIME) decide and give the winners suntin.
June 28th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Cory says:
I LOVE Dime. I get the magazine covers autographed and have them framed up nice displaying in my pad.
Show me some LOVE with a xl. I have been a twolves season ticket holder for 10+ years.
June 28th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Soopa says:
I need to be hooked up with a Team Rose shirt ‘cos:
Been a Dime fan ever since i saw the AI cover of your first release (saw it on a link on insidehoops.com and it caught my eye) and ive been reading Smack EVERYDAY since. When im not able to go get online some days, i absolutly need to get go read the posts i missed.
When i realised you shipped internationally ive subscribe since #20 (the tmac red hoodie cover).
Im from Denmark (the small country in europe), so DIME is basicly my main source of REAL NBA news and not just the ESPN type, but real down to earth and with a urban style to it that makes me come back for more lol.
I also think that a DIME tee in europe is needed, im gonna represent! Basketball is quite small in Denmark, but me and my family run a really small time team/organisation in my city, so its gonna get atleast some exposure
Anyway keep up the brilliant work guys and garls!
June 28th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Johnson Chau says:
Any shirt is fine, because I love this draft class.
Most importantly, I love Dime. Time after time, producing quality monthly issues for us readers. And damn was “Best Year Ever” a good read, now just waiting to get a hold of the Lance Stephenson cover.
Dime. One love. Like no other.
June 28th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Albert says:
Hook me up with a Team Westbrook tee in XL please. I’ve been following Russ ever since he played High School ball. He played at Leu-House where I taught. Then he went to UCLA where I am an alumni. I would love to rock the Westbrook tee to represent Leu-House, UCLA, and Russ.
June 29th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Bryan B. says:
I deserve this shirt for what happened to me on draft night. I was so thrilled that my Bulls got Derrick Rose I was overcome with passion as I chanted “ROOOOOOOSE, oh God yes!! ROOOOOOOSE!” My celebration lasted for a good few minutes. Well, later that night I was taking my ladyfriend out to dinner and as we stepped out of the door my “friendly” neighbor Marcus approached us with that creepy smile of his. He looked me right in the eye and winked before turning to my date, “Rose I presume?”
True story.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
James Blackburn says:
XL please
June 29th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
CW says:
Team Lopez - cause i’ve always been a fan of J-Lo!
June 29th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Craig says:
Beasley - XL
I wanna rep Beasely and Dime Down Under!
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:26 am
Imperial_Mel says:
when will the winners be announced??
July 4th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Jay says:
^^^ yeah i wanna know too
August 26th, 2008 at 3:10 am
Gordon says:
I’ve been subscribed to Dime for about 2 years now. Big basketball fan and I play all the time. Basketball has been my passion since I was a kid. Plus, my name is Gordon so hook me up with a Team Gordon shirt in Large or extra large please.