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Ok, I see. Well, the Sixers' is not the same thing.

Exactly, had been seeing that and that they had already set the record even before the game against Boston.

This. The way teams should be looking and the scheme they should be following most of the games is starting to be treated here in the way a special occasion would. Nothing that has come after those unis (the regular colorways) has been better or close. That was a really solid template and look. Of all the color on color matchups which I'm not a fan of at all, this is not really offensive and actually works. There's enough contrast, and the Clippers dark blue comes across more as black for being dark enough.

Never liked those or any other Christmas jerseys. The ones with the same script replacing team fonts were super generic, the other ones just plain lousy and bad. The snowflake patch does the job well. Additional jerseys for Christmas wouldn't even have the same effect in current jumble of random uniforms.

That MVP trophy is an interesting and cool shape.

Heat, Bulls, Sixers, among others.. Nuggets, Pacers, Suns, among the other colors. The light base floors are easier to watch and aesthetically better, but still ugly to be fully covered in paint instead of having the wood surface.

Ok, so, the Warriors' navy Statement uni is better-looking and a better design than their regular sets. Add some thinner yellow bridge wires pattern in between the side piping lines and it could make them more interesting at that.

The more I look at these tournament courts, the more I become convinced they should've gone only with the center lane graphics, leaving everything else the usual way, and it would've had a sufficient attention grabbing effect. I've also noticed that the ones that work from the bunch, are the monochrome, where only one color is used alongside the wood shade or another light color base (such as gray, which, on the other hand is ugly on its own). Then again, the Celtics' court has no business looking good, but apparently for this reason does. Regardless, overall these courts have that cheap elementary school rubber court look, which had been already mentioned. Phoenix's court was another eyesore with not only the uniforms but even players' skin tone getting blended with the floor. Another wreck job should be the Pelicans'.

I literally said my opinion wasn't about the message. It's far from only not being used to something, the games were hard to watch and the eyes hurt. Physically unwatchable, apart from looking atrocious. And it was obvious on paper, without any need to "experiment". The least they could've done was test-drive them and would've come to the obvious conclusion.

Apart from the cringey message, as a visual style, compared to the tournament courts and most of the City nonsense, I can totally live with this, and I think it's a fully functional and visually interesting graphic element that I'm surprised hadn't been used previously.

Don't feel like this monochrome purple is the Jazz look at all, they need the light blue in there with it. I get Kings' (and the other rival purple teams') vibes from this floor, but not the Jazz'.

As much as it looked perplexing and contradicting design-wise, I didn't want to sound like the older guy who can't take any novelty and wanted to see how these courts would play out (or how the NBA would make them to), but... they are exactly as visually and aesthetically dysfunctional as anticipated. Ironically, one of the worst courts on paper, the Bucks, ended up being the least problematic and ugly last night. There's just way too much color saturation and visual clutter and not enough contrast with the players on these courts. The NBA just flat out decided to forego any design principles in terms of functionality with these for the sake of in-your-face attention-grabbing effect. Now it was impossible to watch the highlights not only for the absence of playmaking and constant jacking up of threes that the NBA game has become, but it was hard to look at the picture. If the NBA was wise, they would ditch these courts right away. What's interesting, the one element that ended up actually "making sense" is the "runway" lane, and it also looks appealing from the rim camera angle. They could've limited the tournament floor graphics only to that (with the center court trophy) and focused on it while keeping the regular wood stain elsewhere.

Has the potential to be an interesting playful secondary/tertiary logo, but their main R monogram is still one of the best logos in the league.

This is the best look they’ve had throughout their OKC existence, without all the unnecessary outlines with that font and wordmarks and unappealing color combinations, and it is not saying a lot. If they insist on staying put on this joke of an identity, at least treat it this way. On a separate note, that background logo mosaic is an interesting idea, and doesn’t go over the top. Not much use for a game jersey as much as for fashion, though, which these jerseys are. That Denver jersey is so bizarre.. I appreciate the boldness of that idea (even though they are pushing that theme too much and it doesn’t mean a thing for outsider consumers), and, apart from that mountain skyline getting completely lost in the background, you have to establish a clear typographic hierarchy between the two numbers. The player number should be the one with the primary emphasis – either by an obvious size difference, and/or by a different treatment, like having the altitude only as an outline, for example, if keeping it big. What comes to Washington, they went with: – Gimme the Grizzlies old colorway – Say no more, fam.

That waistband old-style basketball logo with the leaf is beautiful.

I agree that it looks more interesting that way, but only those sublimated graphics on otherwise uncolored paint areas just don't work, it still looks too bare regardless (same with the Pelicans). They need and could do something more interesting with the paint.

To me, the very fact that the City unis change each year (or any specific short cycle of years) makes them irrelevant and disposable and lack any thrill in anticipation. They are just an afterthought for me on these boards. --- What comes to the large amount of black jerseys around the league in general – well, it had been steadily and firmly moving in that direction over all these past years, so it's strange to see that kind of reaction now. At this point it just is what it is.

So it's the Pacers with the graffiti this time around..

"Heat Culture" on a uniform is total cringe, it's even beyond airport carpet. The only suitable way to have it would be as a small detail signature inside the collar or near the tag or such, the way they sometimes put it. On fan apparel or maybe even warmups, a whole different thing.

Agree with this part especially.

I thought the new unis were supposed to have fir trees?? Just another disposable fashion/promo uni in a series of many that belong outside the court that this City program is.

It’s a basketball.

If we're going that deep, the orange spikes in the streak are just a speed trail of color left behind by the streaking ball. The spikes surrounding the ball is the actual "shine" which is the rays. Just to make it clear.

The rays that were talked about were the ones surrounding the ball on the new jerseys in particular, not the actual streak/tail you are referring to.

Well, on it's own it's really not an argument, since it's normal for NBA teams to have basketballs in their logo package that are rendered in one of their colors. But, as one of several essential arguments supporting this case, it is obvious.