NBA Finals Games 1-4 Uniform Matchups Released

Game 1: Spurs (Icon) vs Knicks (Association)

Game 2: Spurs (Association) vs Knicks (Icon)

Game 3: Knicks (Association) vs Spurs (Icon)

Game 4: Knicks (Association) vs Spurs (Icon)

Nearly perfect. I wish the Spurs weren’t wearing Black at home Game 1 so all the matchups were traditional, but alas this is what we get.

Still, with the return of the LOB trophy decal on the court, and the lack of the YouTube TV sponsorship, these uniform matchups will - most of the time - hopefully create for a great NBA Finals aesthetic atmosphere that the league has sorely lacked for years.

Edit:

Association = White jersey

Spurs Icon = Black jersey

Knicks Icon = Blue jersey

SwampFlowers | Bulls

156 | 3 hours ago

For anyone who can’t keep it straight, Association is white and Icon is dark (blue for Knicks, black for Spurs).

This naming convention is idiotic and unnecessary.

SirPurrrrr | Charlotte Bobcats

34 | an hour ago

Yeah that’s me. When/why did it change from Home/Away/Alternate?

platinum92 | Hawks

31 | an hour ago

When Nike took over in 2017. They tried to make it a more soccer style situation where there were main and secondary uniforms. Then Alternate became “Statement”, then they cranked up the type of alternates with City and Earned uniforms.

Edit: “like soccer” might be the wrong way to say it. Basically they wanted to remove the idea of “home” and “away” uniforms so they could do more mix-and-match pairings. At the end of the day, Association is white and Icon is the main non-white uniform for I think every team.

SwampFlowers | Bulls

14 | an hour ago

The NBA desperately wants to be a European football league.

platinum92 | Hawks

10 | an hour ago

in this respect, I have no issue with it. If 2 teams’ main colors don’t present a contrast/colorblindness issue, let them wear non-white uniforms. It’s not 1960 where my TV can’t tell the difference.

SwampFlowers | Bulls

8 | 43 minutes ago

My only real issues are that I don’t think every team really needs to have a black uniform, and I absolutely hate when their alternates are in a totally different color scheme to their normal colors. I hate tuning in to watch like, Blazers vs Bulls in Portland, and you’ve got Chicago in red and black and Portland in teal and black and they’re playing on a red and black court. Makes it look like Chicago is the home team. Or a few years ago, we had Milwaukee with blue alternates and Orlando with orange, and you had them both wearing their alternates in the same game. I tuned in and had no clue who was playing at first. It’s horrible for branding.

Ideally, a team like Portland and a team like Chicago would have a third color to differentiate when they play. Chicago could add light blue to match the Chicago flag, Portland could add teal because they used it a few years ago and I don’t know enough about Portland to suggest something else. Then when they play each other, the visiting team wears their tertiary color and the home team matches their home court.

I have given this way too much thought.

platinum92 | Hawks

3 | 36 minutes ago

No it’s a logical train of thought. I agree that the home team’s uniforms should match the court’s theme.

electricmeal | Bulls

1 | 19 minutes ago

I feel like there’s been enough bad implementations that I’d rather there just always be one team wearing white unis

Robcobes

1 | 22 minutes ago

I’ve been saying for years the ball should be made with black and white hexes and octagons

Iron_Chic | Warriors

1 | 18 minutes ago

I’m sure someone in Marketing figured out that ambiguously named uniforms will cause people to Google them, thus resulting in more possible sales.

AppropriateArt280 | Spurs

1 | 20 minutes ago

Because they wanted to start wearing away uniforms at home and MBAs can’t resist a rebranding opportunity

AppropriateArt280 | Spurs

1 | 19 minutes ago

Just wanna hijack to mention how awful it is watching a team wear their away jerseys at home so it’s difficult to distinguish them from the color way of the stadium fans, which is usually the exact same color.

chewytime

1 | 7 minutes ago

They need to end this stupid money grab. Go back to Home, Away, and alternate third jersey.

Domainsetter

90 | 3 hours ago

Wonder if the Spurs have the fiesta crowd set up with the giveaway shirts.

ThisWay_DatWay | Warriors

39 | 3 hours ago

Yup. Game 1 will have the giveaway shirts which should pop nicely in contrast to the black jerseys and is probably why they went for it instead of the home whites.

Still nice to see tradition back for the most part.

CaptainPussybeast | Spurs

1 | 14 minutes ago

Yep. Fiesta shirts are back.

I just wish they ditched the black towels because it looks terrible on tv. Definitely need white OR fiesta towels

WhiteRoseFromPluto

51 | 3 hours ago

Ima be real I wish all home teams wore white at home with some exceptions like the Lakers of course

dont-YOLO-ragequit | Raptors

63 | 3 hours ago

I like the opposite. Home teams should wear all colors and these are usually their most beautiful and prideful jerseys while the away team gets the more bland white jerseys.

It’s also because the T-shirt they hand out for seat sections are also colored so it matches better

TangerineOk4017

43 | 3 hours ago

Home teams should wear home colors, wearing white at home is just lame

NickInTheBack | Warriors

24 | 3 hours ago

It looks like the reasoning goes back to old days of baseball where it was harder to find laundry service on the road, so wearing darker colors helped hide the dirt and stains during a long road trip. Definitely makes sense for back then but now I completely agree, let the home team wear color.

PapaJohnsGarlic100 | Magic

6 | 3 hours ago

I would be okay with this if teams planned their court paint colors around it better.

Spurs, you want to wear black at home? Then you have to have the paint be a light color.

The black jerseys plus black paint combo is awful for television. The players disappear into a void

NYState_of_Mind | Knicks

7 | 2 hours ago

As somebody that used to share season tickets it was better seeing different colored team opponents every night then it would have been seeing every away team in white

DrRudeboy | Warriors

1 | 3 hours ago

I’m with you. Home teams should always have the main colours from their crest

WhiteRoseFromPluto

0 | 3 hours ago

Idk I like the way it was leave the dark at home tradition for football teams

Gamesgtd | Magic

12 | 3 hours ago

Yeah Nike screwed it up. Like if they wanted to have teams primary home be white and then they have an alternate home jersey that’s colorful that would be one thing. But they should still wear white at home for the vast majority of the season. My old head nostalgia brain just hates seeing solid on solid in the NBA for some reason and even worse white for the road squad.

malvim | Spurs

10 | 3 hours ago

I mean, I’m not from the US, so even this “icon”, “association”, “city edition” naming of the kits is hella confusing…

“Home”, “away” and a third option (even a fourth if needed I guess) would be so much easier to understand.

I read this post and have no idea what colors they’re using, except the black because OP said it explicitly.

Gamesgtd | Magic

3 | 3 hours ago

I’ve been watching since 06 and I knew qhe the naming switch happened and I still don’t know what each is because I’m so used to home and away

Gavina4444 | ORL

3 | 3 hours ago

Solid on solid isn’t too bad but away team wearing white is criminal

WhiteRoseFromPluto

2 | 3 hours ago

I wonder if they wanted it to be more similar to the NFL where dark colors are home and white are away

Because since they made this switch up a lot of teams just wear there dark jerseys at home and a lot of teams wear white on the road

Status_Cheesecake_49

1 | 3 hours ago

My sentiments exactly

claudedebussy69

2 | 2 hours ago

This is correct.

quicheconquest

1 | an hour ago

maybe I’m too old school but I agree. seeing teams wear black at home always annoyed me

pretenderist | BOS

-1 | 3 hours ago

Boring.

KuntaWuKnicks | Knicks

51 | 3 hours ago

Game. Blouses.

MemesForMyDepression | Celtics

1 | 20 minutes ago

*Slowly levitates back down to the ground*

joebos617 | BOS

48 | 3 hours ago

can we go back to one home and one road jerseys for the love of god

UFmoose | Knicks

13 | 3 hours ago

At least for the conference finals and beyond.

hopeless_dick_dancer

9 | 2 hours ago

I’m confused. I only see one home and one road jersey listed on these matchups for each team

HokageEzio | Knicks

-1 | an hour ago

The Spurs are wearing black at home for Game 1. But other than that it’s traditional home whites (so far).

hopeless_dick_dancer

4 | an hour ago

Soooooo, one home and one away jersey?

HokageEzio | Knicks

1 | an hour ago

Yeah I see why you were confused now, the original person’s complaint doesn’t make sense here.

Euclidding_Me | Spurs

1 | 29 minutes ago

In the old days, white (or lighter color) was the home team. Always. Road team was dark. I think thee Lakers were one if the few teams that had a second home color (white on Sundays, instead of yellow)

BootOk4583

5 | 2 hours ago

I ageee, it is such overkill with teams wearing like 15-20 jerseys a year, especially thinking back to the Cavs wearing those t shirt jerseys in that 2016 game seven. Or at least one alternate, like the Bulls with the black one in the mid 90s, they made it a point to only wear them the contracted minimum, and never in a post season game

ForTheOAKLand | Hawks

3 | 43 minutes ago

I’m a fan of Home/Road/Alt. Home should always be the lighter colored jersey though. That way teams like the Lakers and Pacers can still wear Gold/Yellow jerseys at home.

decisionagonized | Bucks

10 | 3 hours ago

Yeah can we please go back to predictable home/road uniforms?? It’s so sad to not have a home jersey that we can expect to see

shangalang69 | Raptors

7 | 3 hours ago

no fiesta??? 😔

vivekvangala34_ | Wizards

24 | 3 hours ago

City edition unis are not allowed to be worn in conference finals / finals

theweatherguy69 | Spurs

12 | 3 hours ago

At least we still do the t shirts. That fiesta themed crowd might be the coolest thing in the nba.

AboutaDirk

2 | 3 hours ago

Such a shame. I prefer almost every team’s city edition jerseys

mrb4 | Suns

1 | 33 minutes ago

Is this a new rule? I know the suns wore their Valley jerseys in both WCF and finals in 2021

DelusionalForMyAngel | Wizards

2 | 40 minutes ago

I wish the Spurs would make the Fiesta permanent man those colors are so good

drsmith21 | Hawks

7 | 3 hours ago

If you think I have any idea what color each team’s Association or Icon jersey might be, you’d be mistaken.

Kataneo

6 | 3 hours ago

Was kinda worried the knicks were gonna wear their black jerseys at home again, thank god

UFmoose | Knicks

2 | 3 hours ago

Same.

NYState_of_Mind | Knicks

6 | 2 hours ago

Remember using home, away and alternate…good times

Lopsided_Mix2243 | Lakers

2 | an hour ago

Association? Am I old? What happened to alternative lol

90ufiyahhh

2 | 3 hours ago

Knicks in 6

LessthanJared | Cavaliers

1 | 3 hours ago

Spurs in 7, respect the script

90ufiyahhh

3 | 3 hours ago

Who da foooooq is dis guy?

Ashamed_Elk2301

1 | 3 hours ago

Definitely unbiased opinion

Schwalm | Suns

1 | 2 hours ago

Who has the jersey stats

TotteKaiju | Knicks

1 | an hour ago

The way it should be. The NBA needs to get this shit straight- at least for the playoffs.

WeekendBoy2022 | Cavaliers

1 | an hour ago

I don’t mind them switching between colors so much(home, away, alternate) I just hate they introduce like two or three new uniforms each year

sactownballer03 | SAC

1 | 44 minutes ago

At least have the color of the arm sleeves and accessories match with the jersey/be a team color.

FancierTechnique

1 | 26 minutes ago

lol

YoF3 | Spurs

1 | 25 minutes ago

No Fiesta 😭

Saucy_Totchie | Knicks

1 | 16 minutes ago

Almost perfect. Wish they’d back to traditional home whites and away colors.

m0nkeyhero | Knicks

1 | 13 minutes ago

This naming convention is terrible marketing bullshit.

abominable_prolapse

1 | 12 minutes ago

This is the crap yall post about?

trustabro | Heat

-4 | 3 hours ago

Who cares

naturalscience | Spurs

2 | 2 hours ago

People whose teams are still playing?

fps129 | Knicks

2 | 2 hours ago

Bro is hating from outside the club.

trustabro | Heat

-1 | an hour ago

You really care what jerseys your team is going to wear? Even when my team was in the finals, I couldn’t care less. Sometimes, seeing what they wear as they play or about to play can be a nice emotional boost but knowing this prior is useless information. Do you get intellectually stimulated or get some dose of pleasure knowing before hand what jersey your team is going to wear? Serious question.

I really don’t get it.