The least-worn uniforms were the Earned designs for the Heat and Magic - just three games apiece.The single most-worn uniform this season was the Knicks’ white Association uni, which the team wore for 35 of its 72 regular season games.As a result, the most-worn uniform for 20 of the league’s 30 teams this season was the white Association design, even though every single team wore color more than white overall. Since the vast majority of NBA teams have several colored uniforms but just one white uniform - the Association design - all of a team’s white-uni games are typically channeled into one design option, while the colored-uni games are divvied up among several designs.With a bit of number crunching, the following facts and figures emerge: But it’s fairly simple for the NBA, because the season’s entire uniform schedule is publicly available on the league’s invaluable LockerVision website. That gave your friendly columnist an idea: Instead of ranking the full uni sets, what if we looked at each team’s most frequently worn uniform for this season and ranked all of those? That way we’d be ranking the uniforms that the teams themselves have chosen to showcase above the others.įor most leagues, tabulating which team wore which uniform for which games would be a logistical nightmare. To put this in some perspective, consider this: The Bucks’ second-most-worn uniform of this season has been their Earned uni - a design that wasn’t even unveiled until March 10 and will be retired after the playoffs. Some teams lean heavily on their primary white or colored uniforms (the so-called Association and Icon designs) others choose to emphasize the various alternate and throwback uniforms (the City, Statement, Earned and Classic designs). Moreover, there’s no rhyme or reason regarding which uniforms get worn most or least.

For many teams, there’s no design consistency, no visual through-line, no long-term uni stability - all of which makes it hard to rank or assess the uniforms. Just when you’re finally getting used to one of the incongruous new uniforms, it gets mothballed and replaced by something else.Īdd all of that up and it’s not surprising to hear some fans (maybe including you) say that they often have no idea who’s playing when they turn on the TV. Most of these uniforms are programmed to rotate in and out of the teams’ wardrobes in one- and two-year cycles, meaning the teams’ on-court looks are constantly in flux.Thanks to Nike’s penchant for pushing the boundaries of conventional uniform design (or, depending on your point of view, Nike scraping the bottom of the creative barrel after having long ago run out of viable ideas), most teams have at least one uniform that looks nothing like any of the others, often with completely different team colors, graphics, typography and so on.Since 2017, the rule has been that the home team can wear whatever it wants and the road team must wear something of sufficient contrast, with neither team required to wear white. There are no more designated home or road uniforms.And three clubs - the Lakers, Mavericks and Nets - have six. Every NBA team has at least four uniforms.

Just one problem: NBA uniforms are such a mess right now that ranking them is a particularly chaotic exercise. The NBA postseason - the real postseason, not the play-in round - is about to kick into high gear, which makes this a good time to roll out a set of Uni Watch NBA Power Rankings.

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