Tex Moton grew up graffitiing Dallas. He first started as a 15-year-old who spent his days spray-painting Deep Ellum parking lots or the old Pearlstone grain factory, which still stands next to Interstate-30. As a high school senior, he co-founded the Infinite Crew, the city’s first organized graffiti group that established Dallas’ street art culture before a heightened police presence cracked down on the scene in the late 2000s. He skipped college and dove straight into his professional art career. Eventually, that led him here – to the design of the 2019-20 Mavericks city edition jersey.



“It couldn’t have been more up my alley,” he says now.



Moton had worked with the Mavericks several times before. Once, when the team’s vice president of merchandise and brand identity, Alison Panasik, asked him about potential locations for a photo shoot, he just spray painted her a brand-new mural. “I said, ‘Hey, we’re...