Exploring the Hits and Misses of the NBA’s City Edition Jerseys: Top 30 Rankings

The NBA starts this evening, and the 30 franchises in the league will – like every season – wear an exclusive jersey, called City Edition. Designed collaboratively by Nike and the artistic teams of each franchise, these tunics want to explore the particularities of each city, the great moments of each team to create a unique design. Design not always… successful. Come on, let’s make this season’s top 30, strap your retinas in place!

SPOILER : This article is based on tastes and colors, as dear Daniel Riolo would say. We debated within the editorial team to have an overall opinion going in the same direction, a direction which may not be yours and since we are talking about you, therefore throw your opinions into comments. What stands out the most about us? This edition is almost more like a Flop 30 than a Top 30. Here we go!

Atlanta Hawks

Or when the design of the jersey is thrown out the window, the deadline is at 11:59 p.m. and we remember it at 11:55 p.m. A shot of “Times New Roman” on Word because it’s the default font, a blue stripe on the side and that’s it.

Boston Celtics

Not incredible, not particularly disgusting. In such a… vinegary vintage, the Celtics tunic remains an almost safe bet, which does not take risks.

Brooklyn Nets

Leave a jersey model, paint and letters to a child, here is the result.

Charlotte Hornets

The Buzz City classic, even if in Charlotte, it sounds more pschttt than bzzzz. Jersey that holds the team colors, at least.

Chicago Bulls

We open the “chasubles” sub-folder of the “rubbish” folder with the Bulls. What is this madness ? Police rather friendly but disastrous organization. It could have worked so well horizontally, what a waste.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Jersey greeted by discreet boos and above all general indifference in a room which clearly still does not understand the idea. For our part, we admit that it is a middle ground between average success and slight failure. Compared to other teams, we will not winnow the Cavs for their jersey as a priority this season.

Dallas Mavericks

Meh. A little stylized writing, it’s not too bad but we can do so much better. At least the lack of risk-taking doesn’t make it ridiculous.

Denver Nuggets

Not a bad idea of ​​the postal code on the jersey. Unless it’s the altitude. Or a bank card code. But whose jersey is it anyway?

Detroit Pistons

What does this have to do with the city of Detroit?

Golden State Warriors

The curvature of the text: the trainee has just discovered the “deform the text” option in Photoshop. We understood that this was a reference to the slope of the city’s streets, but it’s ugly. For once, a little more graphic writing would have been sublime with the colors. Damage.

Houston Rockets

Nice jersey that could also be worn by any Houston area basketball team.

Indiana Pacers

We like it! Nice graphic style, colors that match quite neatly. A little breath of fresh air compared to the gloomy gray tests linked to the Indianapolis 500. What do you think about it?

Los Angeles Clippers

Overall rendering quite sober. Security yes, but there it has no soul.

Los Angeles Lakers

Oh cosmic dung. The chasuble sold at the entrance to Gran Jonquera, the letters arranged like Hollywood except it’s disgusting. To be stored in the chasubles sub-folder.

Memphis Grizzlies

Interesting colors. But why such a big bar code to pay for the jersey?

Miami Heat

Trying to highlight Heat Culture: good. Do it with a kind of catastrophic chasuble rendering? Less good.

Milwaukee Bucks

The days of the sublime Cream City jersey that we would have bought without looking at the state of our bank accounts are long gone. There, we’re more on a kind of… we didn’t understand anything, in fact.

The Minnesota Timberwolves

A slightly aquatic gradient, a reference to the land of lakes. We understand, even if the interpretation is perhaps not the most aesthetic. It’s still not a disgusting jersey WHEN we know the history of Wolves on the subject.

New Orleans Pelicans

Not understood.

New York Knicks

Wow hahah look at it with 3D glasses! Iconic colors, but very average design.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Very graphic jersey, colors that correspond either to fall or to vomit. At least we find the OKC font of the logo.

Orlando Magic

HEY ! This one isn’t bad, isn’t it? The A replaced by a star, a slightly magical universe, reference to Disney… colors of the franchise, a bit of a “Saloon” font, pretty to see… Would this be a good jersey? Yes !

Philadelphia Sixers

Not a bad idea, average interpretation. The handwritten characters would have benefited from being enlarged. At least, it corresponds to the idea we have of the city.

Phoenix Suns

Summer colors, jersey that respects the identity of the city and that of the franchise… that’s yes! A great success for the Suns, all that’s left to do is throw some heavy stuff on the field from now on.

Portland Trail Blazers

This one is also nice. Rip City pennant style is cool. Too bad because the 2023-24 Blazers season will probably not be remembered.

Sacramento Kings

A successful nod to the Rochester Royals, a way to remind you that the Kings certainly have one more title than your favorite franchise. Vertical writing can be divisive, but it’s not bad at all!

San Antonio Spurs

Year of Victor Wembanyama and he will be dressed in the Gravelines-Dunkerque carnival jersey? No, it’s too much there.

Toronto Raptors

Aggressive geometric pattern, dinosaurs bite hard. Too bad those in Toronto are more categorized as herbivores at the moment. For the jersey, it’s not crazy but not filthy either.

Utah Jazz

YES ! This one is beautiful! Everything is there, here is an item that we want to buy flocked Markkanen!

Washington Wizards

“Oyé Oyé, this is a message from the Duke of Montmirail, written in the year 1087: your hunting tunic is particularly ugly. The minstrels of our country do not dress in this way, at the risk of being mocked in any shop.”

And you, which one do you prefer?

Source : NBA.com

2023-10-24 16:09:00
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