Ranking and analyzing all 30 NBA City edition uniforms
2. Milwaukee Bucks
Here we have the other cream alternate. Milwaukee, who switched from red to cream as the secondary color to green, created this uniquely-designed uniform as a supplement to their beautiful white and green regular set.
Uniforms are made by the creative ways with which they use colors. This is especially true for basketball unis, where there is little space to work compared to football and hockey. We saw the Timberwolves and Kings expertly use the shoulders as a place to integrate the second color. The Lakers make side panels work. The Magic and the old New Orleans Hornets used pinstripes. The Suns played off their logo on the front of the jersey. The first-place team on this countdown really went for it, as you’ll see soon.
Milwaukee didn’t stray far from the regular basketball uniform template like the next team on this list, but they introduced a couple of new ways to use colors, and that is what separates them from the pack. The Bucks placed six stripes across the front of the jersey — from top to bottom, blue-black-green-white-cream-thick green —and put an intimidating buck right on top.
The multi-colored stripes add a sort of forest effect that is only enhanced by the buck logo, which looks really, really good. It’s a clever way to integrate all of their colors (including white, an important insert) without resorting to the standard front lettering that so many teams have had to do. They pulled off something that no other team can say they’ve done, and they did it almost flawlessly.
The ad is killer, though. It says a lot about how good this jersey was that it managed to finish second despite the off-color advertisement.