Ranking Every New NBA City Edition Jersey
For this year's "City Edition" NBA jerseys, Nike and the 30 teams have gone all-in on the "mashup" concept, combining elements of different jersey designs from the respective franchises' histories.To get more news about kobe jerseys, you can visit formaxproductions.com official website.
By and large, the results here are good. Last year's City Edition jerseys played on themes and characteristics of the teams' cities and were often too obscure and specialized to be appreciated on a broader scale. With a few exceptions, these are quite good.
Of course, some are better than others, so we took the opportunity to rank all 28 of the brand-new jersey designs that the league unveiled on Monday.
The Thunder are in a tough spot here. If the idea is to combine elements from previous eras' jerseys, they don't have an extensive history unless they go back to the Seattle days. They were smart to avoid that—it would not go over well with many fans, given the Sonics' controversial exit from Seattle and the widespread sentiment that Oklahoma City "stole" the team.
With that said, they could have at least tried something interesting. Anything at all. This is basically an all-white version of the navy blue alternate jersey they wore for a few years during the Kevin Durant era, which was an attempt to create something that looked like a throwback to a previous generation in which the Thunder franchise did not exist.
Coming off the best four-year run of alternate jerseys any franchise has ever had (the flawless "Vice City" jerseys), the Heat apparently looked at the Cavs' Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-themed jerseys from last year that looked like a ransom note and said, "Let's do that."
Heat players will also have the opportunity to customize the font style of the number based on any of their previous uniforms, allowing each player to have a unique jersey. That's a cool idea, in theory, but it's going to be terrible and confusing in practice when they actually wear them during games.The Magic deserve props for bringing back their original star-and-pinstripes jersey design from the Shaq and Penny days, one of the most iconic NBA jerseys of the 1990s. However, they keep trying to make the orange thing happen, and it just doesn't work.
The introduction of the color is an homage to the fruit the state of Florida is renowned for producing, but that's not something that resonates anywhere else and the color clashes with the Magic's regular color scheme.Bringing back a version of arguably the most polarizing jersey in NBA history was a risky move for the Rockets. The Charles Barkley/Scottie Pippen-era pinstriped jerseys epitomized the late-'90s trend of cartoons, and though they were widely hated at the time, they've acquired a certain retro nostalgia appeal in the years since.
The problem with this reboot is that it doesn't lean into that enough. Either bring back the actual cartoon rocket or don't do it at all. Just changing the color scheme and the early-'90s jersey and putting pinstripes on it is a half measure.Now we get into the jerseys that aren't bad per se but aren't anything special.
The red, black and gold side piping is clean. These are better than the Pelicans' regular home jerseys, and it would be great if they were simply introduced as such. For what was supposed to be one of the league's big campaigns celebrating their rich history, though, it doesn't do much.The Celtics have come up with a brilliant deflection for any criticism of their insistence on including gray in their alternate jerseys despite it never looking good. You see, the gray on these jerseys actually represents the smoke from one of Red Auerbach's cigars, so if you say you don't like it, you're hating on the man behind the Russell-Cousy-Havlicek dynasty.
That aside, the front lettering (a throwback to their original 1946 jerseys) would look a lot better if it was white with green shadows. The green-on-green makes it look like a practice jersey.It's hard for any jersey with the Hornets' teal-and-purple color scheme to be bad, but these try to do too much at once.
The fade is reminiscent of the Jazz's recent City Editions, which are superb. Charlotte also employs a honeycomb pattern on the top that looks like the jerseys the Hawks used for a few years in the late 2010s.
Either of these concepts would be great if they fully committed to them. Either stick with the fade or do the honeycomb all over. These are just too busy.
