Dallas Mavericks Release New City Edition Uniform for 2024-25

The Dallas Mavericks unveiled their new City Edition uniforms for 2024-25 on Thursday, along with most of the other NBA teams. And, like several other squads, the team has embarked on a two year arc, basically color swapping last year’s CE uniform for this season.

For the second year running, your Dallas Mavericks and Grammy Award winning recording artist and Fort Worth native Leon Bridges celebrate the unique musical legacy of North Texas, and here’s the video:

The new CE is almost entirely white, with silver-grayish accents.

Although it’s pretty much just a color swap of the previous edition, the team has put together some decent “explainers” of the uniform’s features.

The uniforms are called the Trinity River Blues: Encore Collection.

The team described the uniform’s “inspiration” thusly:

North Texas is not only one of the birthplaces of American Blues music, but it has also been essential to the genre’s evolution throughout two centuries. After local bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson helped create the style in the early 20th century, Dallas icon T-Bone Walker introduced the electric guitar and rock ‘n’ roll showmanship to the Blues in the 1930s and 40s. During the ensuing decades, Dallas-Ft. Worth legends, including Freddie King, Steve Miller, ZZ Hill, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, shaped the arc of the Blues. Today, their influence reverberates not only in the Blues, but also in Rock, Country and R&B. In fact, at its roots, much of modern music started right here.

Bridges not only designed this year’s uniforms, he designed last year’s as well.

Here’s an additional look at the shorts.

The back of the jersey is similarly plain, with player NOB in silver-gray as well as the uniform number, which is in the same style as the front number:

And here’s a small gallery featuring the players in their new uniform.

The Mavericks will debut the uniform this evening, against the San Antonio Spurs. They’ll be worn an additional 11 times during the 2024-2025 season.

Here are the additional dates: Nov. 27 vs. New York Knicks, Dec. 19 vs. Los Angeles Clippers, Jan. 7, 2025 vs. Los Angeles Lakers, Feb. 8, 2025 vs. Houston Rockets, Feb. 21, 2025 vs. New Orleans Pelicans, March 1, 2025 vs. Milwaukee Bucks, March 7, 2025 vs. Memphis Grizzlies, March 9, 2025 vs. Phoenix Sun, April 9, 2025 vs. Los Angeles Lakers, and April 11, 2025 vs. Toronto Raptors.

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I’m actually a fan of these uniforms — and I like them a lot better than last year’s version. It’s probably about as close as an NBA uniform will get to being, to use a popular football expression, “Icy White,” but that’s not why I like them. They are simple, but the side panel with the paisley design is really nice. And while I generally love color (and have criticized other teams for not having much), I like these precisely because they have almost no color. I wouldn’t want every team to have a uniform like this, but for a single team, it’s cool. About my only concern would be that they’re not highly visible, although as long as the uniform number is readable, that’s really all that matters. I am not a huge fan of the wordmark (I wish they’d use “Mavericks” or “Dallas” rather than “Mavs”), and the whole two-year story arc always feels like the team is running out of ideas and basically said, “Screw it, run it back in another color,” but I’d much rather they have this CE than last year’s. All in all, a pretty nice effort, all things considered.

Your thoughts?