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Over the past couple of months, there have been some wonderful concepts and ideas for a hypothetical NBA expansion team in Kansas City, Missouri, and I decided to put my own spin on it, with the "Kansas City Dreamers", now why did I choose Dreamers?, Well I've always had an idea for a Kansas City sports-team name based on the early animation history in Kansas City that started at the Laugh-O-Gram Studios building on East 31st Street, and I decided to go with "Dreamers" as a nickname to harken back to the early days of Disney and Warner Bros. The mascot for the team is a chinchilla which is a type of mouse, and it's name is Ubo the Chinchilla named after Kansas City-born animator Ub Iwerks who worked alongside Walt Disney in Kansas City and was instrumental in co-creating Mickey Mouse. BRANDING The logo and wordmarks were a Fiverr commission, and I wasn't able to identify the font used in the wordmarks, but for the insignia logos and jersey numbers I used Mickorama. The color scheme is blue, red, and vanilla, in which the blue and red are meant to resemble the colors of Kansas City's brand new flag but also the city's former NBA franchise; the Kansas City Kings and the nearby Kansas Jayhawks of the NCAA. EXTRA SCRIPT, INSIGNIA, AND PRIMARY MARKS I of course designed a ton of extra logo assets for this concept (You know me) COURTS This is the standard home court design which features a lot of local(ish) sponsors plus the wordmark logo on both sides of the court And here is the "City Edition" court with a vanilla and black color scheme made to resemble the color scheme of the cartoons made in the era where western animation got its start and its also features the Kansas City skyline on the bottom UPDATE: Made some small tweaks to the court to make things more centered, and reflective of the more recent courts I've designed UNIFORMS Here is the uniform set I designed, the home and away uniforms are very reminiscent of the old Kansas City Kings home/away set, and the red and black alternates I took inspiration from some of the Los Angeles Clippers sets, and the "City Edition" uniforms matches the "City Edition" court design. UPDATE: I fixed an oversight with the naming of the black alternate uniform and changed the jersey manufacturer from Adidas to Nike, since that's what every NBA team has. REJECTED LOGOS To close out this concept, here are some logos that didn't make the cut, plus the initial design that I got from Fiverr, which the mascot here just looks more like a standard chinchilla. This is something I've been wanting to do for a while, and of course critiques and comments are welcome!