Yeah that is fire, though I personally love the 2001 starry jerseys the most. One helluva rebrand honestly. They took fan feedback into account, were forced to use a roundel per NBA standards which kind of sucks as the logo without it is much better. The court is the worst part, I am not a fan of the sidelines being the exact same color all around and or same color as the paint. It all just blends together at that point.
To beat a dead horse, can we just go back to our championship jerseys and the NASA jerseys as Alts. 2 best looking jerseys in the history of the franchise. I would give 3rd place to the green throwbacks they came out with a few years ago.
Dunkstronaut would’ve been cool. I think it would be a good modern logo. Think it would sell well. Championship blue my favorite logo. I really liked the H-Town oiler baby blue city editions a few years ago. I gets a lot of compliments on the hoodie when I bust it out
I love the Dunkstronaut branding, just do that exact jersey and swap the blue to mustard and we good.
The Pacers players prefer their "city" alternate uniforms, but the NBA say that they could not wear them in the ECF or Finals. vs.
A tacit admission by the league that annually different "city" uniforms degrade the aesthetic of the game. They don't want to show ECF or Finals highlights for years with one team looking completely divorced from their historic identities.
Though it does make sense from a Jersey sales standpoint. If the regular home/road jerseys don't change much then I'm not going to buy a jersey every year probably. A good City edition like the dunkstronaut and they get my money. I can see both sides.
Odd, though I think it’s for the best since even for our game 7 it was weird seeing the classic logo at mid-court. And for the Pacers, yes they are a nice creative touch, but that court is just way too much for me. Glad they just play on regular floors with their common away or home jerseys. Thunder’s black orange alternates are hideous as well so for both sides it’s good it wasn’t allowed.
I'm not totally opposed to cool one-offs. I like soccer a lot and every team gets uniforms each season including away jerseys that are not connected to their visual history. What upsets me is the inconsistent usage of jerseys. Teams should look like themselves at home and fans shouldn't have to work to figure out who is who. Milwaukee shouldn't be wearing blue at home on a blue court; OKC shouldn't wear those Halloween alternates on a black court. Soccer lets teams run wild on the road, but they respect tradition at home games. Man U always wears red at home, not this; Real Madrid always wears white at home, not this. The NBA looks cheap with the whiplash changes every year. To that end, the Finals look like a ****ing joke. No on-court iconography and an obscure patch on the back of the jerseys (because, God forbid, we displace the jersey ads). But, there's YouTube TV, Michelob Ultra, and tons of baseline ads to prioritize. ESPN didn't show the anthem or player intros for game one. There was no sense of pageantry for the biggest event of the season. Contrast that with game one of the Stanley Cup finals: TNT aired both anthems, all of the pre-game festivities, and produced a pump-up intro that placed the series within the history of the sport. Silver's pursuit of the short-term buck is evident every single game and it's harming the product. When you watch highlights of game one years from now, the only thing that will communicate that it was the Finals and not a random game in mid-February is small text on the score bug.
All fair points. I definitely agree with you to a point on the brand identity thing. I feel like it's not even that restrictive to mostly play in your home/road traditional colours for home games - hell even nationally televised home games would add more structure and framework and reinforce said brand strength. It's actually why I would've loved for them to just adopt the dunstronaut branding but swap the blue with championship mustard so it was Rockets colours again - we'd have had our colours back AND had unique modern branding that's individually "Houston" and not the hodge podge of generic **** we get most of the other time with bland, uninspired home/road jerseys, the default "black cool jersey" and a city edition that 1/10 looks amazing and the rest of the time makes us look like a completely different team (looking at you Clippers/"Oilers" jersey) entirely.
https://basketballjerseyarchive.com...-nba-2025-26-city-edition-jerseys-leaked/356/ Might as well call City Jerseys the black edition. Jesus most of these arehideous, little to no actual thing that stands out related to the city, Spurs and Pistons might as well have had the same one with the color pattern and particularly the latter would’ve been very dope in teal or white. Still might get a Thompson jersey as there’s not a single Rockets jersey still I’d want for Amen with our hideous font and that silly ass H-Town business. Shame we didn’t switch it to red either.
Interesting nugget in an article in The Athletic about retro jerseys (specifically the new Magic ones) We can still pine for Ketchup and Mustard with a modern twist though!
Am I the only one who thought these city editions were nasty? People love the hoodie when I bust it out
