Milwaukee Bucks unveil their 2020-21 city edition uniforms
After having teased it for weeks, the Milwaukee Bucks finally unveiled their blue city edition uniforms for the 2020-21 NBA season.
The Milwaukee Bucks are getting a new look for the 2020-21 season.
Early Tuesday morning, the Bucks finally unveiled their city edition uniforms, which features an all-blue look that marks the first of its kind in the history of Bucks jerseys past and present.
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As the organization noted in the press release, the blue serves as a nod to the rivers that run through Milwaukee and into Lake Michigan by using the ‘Great Lakes Blue’ color that has been in team’s color palette since 2015:
"“The full uniform features three shades of blue, including Great Lakes Blue, that represents both the three rivers that run through the city as well as the depths of Lake Michigan.”"
Another design touch the Bucks note is that the number on the uniforms have a special coating that will make it appear as though they are wet when reflected under light. What that looks like under the bright lights at Fiserv Forum remains to be seen.
The Milwaukee Bucks unveiled their blue city edition uniforms for the 2020-21, which had been hinted at for some time.
The Bucks had been long teasing a blue uniform set since the color was part of the team’s rebrand in 2015. While there were some rumblings that blue would be the color of the 2020-21 city edition uniforms, the Bucks confirmed that by unveiling the color a part of a ‘Light the Hoan’ event on Milwaukee’s Hoan Bridge.
Up until now, blue had largely been an accent color for the Bucks, save for making them the primary color of shooting shirts for last year’s ‘Cream City’ city uniforms. And that had been by design as Bucks chief marketing officer, Dustin Godsey, had discussed with Zach Lowe during his time at Grantland when the rebrand was made official back in June of 2015:
"“Red was an accent color, but it started to overtake the green,” Godsey says. “That’s something we’re going to be careful with now that we’re using blue. It has to be just an accent color. Green is our color. When people think of the Bucks, they think of green.”"
Of course, Godsey’s comments came before the NBA switched over to Nike as their exclusive designer for all uniforms of every NBA team. And with the Bucks having used most, if not all of their colors in past uniforms sets in the last couple of years, blue now steps up as the primary color of this year’s city edition uniforms.
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While we’ll have to see how many times the Bucks end up wearing the blue set over the course of next season, it certainly hasn’t come out of the blue by any means.