Three NBA groups revealed on Friday their Metropolis Version jerseys for the 2025-26 season. The Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks will all don their alternates from the 2019-2020 marketing campaign because the league continues to undertake a contemporary throwback theme for this 12 months’s Metropolis Version run.
Fan responses to the annual alternate uniform releases deteriorated over the previous couple of years because the themes and designs grew to become much less conventional and extra experimental. This season’s run might alleviate a few of the disdain as groups transfer again to the preferred releases of the Metropolis Version period, which dates again to 2017-18.
The Nuggets hit their Metropolis Version design out of the park with a return to the rainbow skyline design on a black jersey. The fan-favorite uniform acquired a heat welcome again, and Denver’s unveiling got here on the State of Colorado’s 149th birthday, no much less.
The Bucks’ lineup for the 2025-26 season is now full because the workforce won’t change its Affiliation, Icon or Assertion jerseys, which they’ve donned since 2023. Their Metropolis Version high marks the return of the “Cream Metropolis” moniker, which pays homage to the cream-colored bricks used to assemble town through the nineteenth century. Milwaukee additionally introduced they may use an alternate court docket to match the jerseys.
The Hawks are going again to their “Peachtree” uniforms, which pay tribute to the long-lasting Peachtree Road and Georgia’s nickname because the Peach State. The uniform’s shorts characteristic a basketball within the form of a peach, and the complete ensemble emphasizes peach coloring.
Extra groups will unveil their alternates within the weeks and months to return. The ultimate updates ought to arrive simply in time for the season, which ideas off Oct. 21.