Milwaukee Bucks Unveil New City Edition Uniform for 2024-25

The Milwaukee Bucks joined the rest of the NBA in officially unveiling their new City Edition uniforms for 2024-25 yesterday. And once again, their City uniform will be heavy on blue.

The Bucks have used blue for their CE uniforms several times previously, including 2020-21, 2022-23 and 2023-24. They’d also used blue as an accent color in other CE uniforms.

We’ll start with the video, which makes lots of references to blue things in Miluwakee, and acknowledges this is the fourth CE uniform featuring blue.

Connecting Wisconsin.

Introducing our 2024-25 City Edition jersey. pic.twitter.com/ROXjLhTLTT

— Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) November 14, 2024

Here’s the new uniform:

As you can see, the uniform is mostly blue, with thick cream stripes surrounding the neck and arm openings. “BUCKS” in their current font is across the chest, with a number beneath. Both are solid cream with no outline. Beneath the number is a thick cream and thin black line outlining the State of Wisconsin’s northernmost border. The outline continues on the shorts with a secondary logo that highlights Milwaukee’s location within the state.

According to the team, the uniform is the “fourth and final uniform in the series intended to highlight how the Bucks connect with fans in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin. Past City Edition uniforms have highlighted the Bucks’ connections with the Milwaukee’s rivers and Lake Michigan, as well as Deer District and the neighboring communities.”

On the side of the shorts is a stylized Bucks logo.

The blue and cream colors have been around for almost a decade. Per the team, “The Great Lakes Blue and Cream City Cream colors featured on the uniform have been used in Milwaukee’s City Edition uniforms for the past two seasons after both colors were added to the Bucks’ color palette in 2015. Great Lakes Blue was created to symbolize the interconnectivity of Milwaukee, formed by Lake Michigan and the three rivers that run through the city, while Cream City Cream is inspired by the Cream City brick upon which Milwaukee was built and serves as a foundational color of the Bucks’ brand.”

The rear of the jersey features player NOB and number, both in cream. It’s difficult to tell from that photo, but the right side of the shorts reads “MILWAUKEE” and aligned vertically down the leg.

“We have developed an incredible bond with our fans, and we take great pride in our role in connecting people from around the state to the Bucks and the greater Milwaukee community,” said Dustin Godsey, Bucks Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. “This uniform is a tribute to our fans across Wisconsin and will serve as a representation of our state when the Bucks wear them this season.”

The Bucks will debut their City Edition uniforms on November 23 when they host the Charlotte Hornets. The uniform will be worn at nine total home games during the regular season and complemented by the redesigned City Edition alternate court. City Edition theme nights will highlight community game changers in Wisconsin and feature in-game performances from artists statewide.

__________These uniforms are fine, if unnecessary. I rather like the shade of blue used, although it’s definitely not the first color I think of when I think of the Milwaukee Bucks. But it has been a team color for almost a decade, and has been used heavily on the previous three CE uniforms, so it’s growing on me. I’ve never liked the font for the wordmark or the numbers, but that applies to all Bucks uniforms, not just the CE. One additional thing I like about this uniform is its relative simplicity — the Bucks have been somewhat fancy over the years with side panels or other imagery (like the deer antlers on their Statement uniform). The new jersey has nothing running down the sides.

As with all CE uniforms, it’s completely unnecessary, but this one is one of the better ones.

Your thoughts?