They’ve been called the “Turn Ahead the Clock” promotion of the NBA. Ouch. But whether you love them or hate them the NBA’s 2013-14 Christmas sleeved-jerseys certainly are the biggest challenge to the traditional idea of what a basketball uniform looks like in the entire history of the sport.

We took a look at the leaked jerseys earlier this week, we saw five different team uniforms at the time, the biggest disappointment to me is that the designs are all the same with just the team logos and colours swapped out accordingly. If we’re going to be bold, let’s be bold! Don’t copy and paste across the league.

Anyways, Brian Erni of SNY has been absolutely rocking this story providing the only decent photos of the new uniforms we’ve seen and he was at it again yesterday. We also now have our first look at the way the player name and number fits into the new style.

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Brian adds this to his article:

“The lighting may play some tricks on your eye as far as colour, but here’s the deal: The piping on the sleeves is grey, and the neck trim is a white/grey. The lettering is all in white in the same font as the current jerseys, and the main logo is grey. This is the swingman version of the jersey, which is the NBA’s middle level of retail jersey between authentic and replica.”

One thing’s for sure, because of this I’ll be tuning in to a basketball game on Christmas Day when I almost certainly never would have before.