The Sacramento Kings have unveiled this year’s City edition uniforms, which are an homage to the Cincinnati Royals era. How, you may wonder, does a uniform based on Cincinnati become the “City Edition” for a team based in Sacramento? Great question. I assume it’s because Nike has already run out of ideas since they churn out so many of these jerseys every year. In Nike’s tenure the Kings have yet to see official jerseys that reference much of anything that’s actually related to Sacramento itself, so this is staying the course I suppose.
The jerseys themselves are fine. Not my favorite, but I don’t hate them. Take a look:
The uniforms also feature an updated version of the old Cincinnati face logo, but with Golden 1 Center as the crown.
Adding G1C to that is a really nice touch, and it’s probably my favorite element of the uniform overall. Sure, the face is a little weird and creepy, but it’s just a thing on the legs. It’s not like it’s an anthropomorphic nightmare you have to see —
OH MY GOD WTF IS THAT
Apparently that nightmare’s name is Roy Al. Hold your children close, and assure them that Roy Al will only be here for a limited time.
I actually like when teams do weird stuff, so I enjoy the weird mascot.
Greg probably likes the tournament courts as well…and poison oak…and quicksand.
I do enjoy most of the tournament courts this season. One or two this year are still a bit too garish, but most of them I think are fun.
Greg: “I actually like when teams do weird stuff…”
Vivek: “Go on…”
Roy AI and the Vivek Bot will fight for G1C supremacy.
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As someone living a few miles from Nike’s world HQ, who do I have to go and bother over there to get a City Edition that references the Tower Bridge or Capitol?
High kudos must be given to the crew here for their amazing and far superior fan jerseys like the Barbie and the Beam Team.
Completely tangential, but something else to share about Nike from a local perspective.
The Portland metro is America’s athletics/running mecca, so there’s the Nike HQ, the Adidas HQ, Under Armour’s West Coast operations, Columbia, and many other smaller companies. This also means employee stores with the best/hottest stuff at up to 50% discounts. Passes to the Nike Employee Store are highly coveted, but among the requirements/stipulations:
Meanwhile, over at Adidas:
It’s a lot easier to get passes from Adidas than Nike as well, even if Nike is homegrown. They also don’t have the best reputation right now given all the rounds of layoffs they’ve done over the last few years.
TL;DR Adidas > Nike, give them the jerseys back, NBA.
Have they managed to provide shoes and athletic wear to the homeless mecca as well?
Whenever I am there I don’t see many of them in Nikes.
From the sweat shops, to the homeless…Just Do It!
How dare Nike as for a government issued ID. Don’t they know that certain groups of people can’t get those? It is just wrong on so many levels…or some form of outrage like that, so I have heard.
Until they produce a city edition that references Willie’s or the ziggurat, Nike can eat my ass.
Cheery today after a good win last night.
Have you asked Nike to handle that for you?
Roy AI looks like a guy who references willies.
The red stripe and the old school moon face logo reminds me of Pringles can
Big thumbs up on the old Cincinnati logo. Love the black and white, old school look. The colors aren’t my favorite but it’s a nice alternative jersey.
Wasn’t last year’s city edition jersey an acknowledgment to Cincinnati as well? It would be nice if the the city edition actually represented…oh I don’t know….the city of Sacramento?
Have the Thunder done one to honor Seattle? Lakers to honor Minneapolis, Jazz to honor New Orleans, etc?
I don’t think any of those teams are allowed to do that. Thunder relinquished rights to all Sonics branding and history as part of lease break agreement with city of Seattle.
TWolves and Pelicans respectively have branding rights to Minneapolis and New Orleans.
The face kinda reminds me of this.
Which is the face I made when Vlade chose Bagley.
We need a statue of Vlade just so we can all have a place to mourn the pick for eternity. Candles and pics of Luka
I’m not a fan of red, white, and blue as a uniform motif, but I do like these.
Besides, where does it say in City Edition that is has to be the city where the franchise is?
Rochester.
We’ll only allow Kansas City jerseys if we also get Kansas City barbecue with them. Come on, Nike. Just do it.
I dislike all of the city edition jerseys. Just a money grab. Reminds me of school book companies. Change the books ever so slightly each school year so that they can brand it as a “new version”, and make a large profit. But as long as people keep buying the jerseys, they will keep making new ones and selling them each year.
School curriculum has gotten even worse. Text books don’t exist like they used to, to get used year after year. Most have gone digital and require to the districts/schools to pay to access. Underfunded schools can’t just hang onto 20 year old textbooks anymore.
Yeah, what a scam.
Can I get a Roy Al with cheese? Asking for friends.
check out the big brain on Rob!
Where have I seen Roy Al before?
Close, but that’s not quite it.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
That’s Attorney General Roy Al to you sir!
Whatever Matt wants, Matt Gaetz.
Will be.
lmao, looks like a mascot for a burger joint! ????
Your Sacramento Kings: Try our thick, creamy shakes!
Oh god we’ve come full circle!
That pumpkin has the worst toupee I’ve ever seen.
I really liked the “new” purple Kings logo of a couple of years ago, and I like the purple and black jerseys used for some games this year. The former is still in use as the backdrop for the announcers’ “booth.” Bought the official purple and gray cap at the NBA Store in New York…then Kings went and changed it all up to ugly, retro, f-ed up “K” script Kings logo. This new throw back outfit looks stupid.
It’s definitely become comical at this point how many times they’ve run the blue and red scheme without doing anything new colorwise or by referencing the Sac era. I actually like complicated designs with weird color combos so I’d love to see them throw out something uniquely Sactown like City of Trees or Tower Bridge, time to switch it up. These are solid, I like the old Logo but that’s about it, this color scheme is used by way too many teams.
I guess the new era Kangz brand is to change as little as possible lol, thank Vivek.
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