The Minnesota Timberwolves aren’t the only team honouring a local legend with a special uniform this year.
This afternoon, the Brooklyn Nets officially unveiled their new “City Edition” uniform paying tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. The uniform matches the leak we saw back in October.
“The uniform’s multi-colour ‘Brooklyn Camo’ pattern represents the cultural diversity in the borough”, the Nets said. “[Brooklyn] is home to people of all races, religions, and ethnicities, who have one important unifying trait – Brooklyn swagger.”
Overall the design is very similar to what the club has always worn since their move from New Jersey, black jersey with “BROOKLYN” arched across the front in white, and the player’s number centred below. That new “Brooklyn Camo”, as the team is calling it, acts as a trim around the arms and at the neck, and on the shorts around the team logo.
After the leak in October, several readers wrote in pointing out the pattern on the jersey matched the COOGI sweaters B.I.G. often wore.
Brooklyn will wear the uniform sixteen times in total, twelve of those at home
November 17 vs LA Clippers
November 30 vs Memphis
December 7 vs Toronto
December 8 at New York
December 14 vs Washington
December 18 vs LA Lakers
December 21 vs Indiana
January 11 at Toronto
January 25 vs New York
February 4 vs Milwaukee
February 8 vs Chicago
February 21 at Portland
March 1 vs Charlotte
March 9 at Atlanta
March 11 vs Detroit
April 10 vs Miami