When followers of the Detroit Pistons go by their native newsstand on Wednesday morning, they’ll be handled to a sneak peek of the their 2025-26 Metropolis Version jerseys on the duvet of SLAM Journal.
The quilt exhibits All-Star guard Cade Cunningham carrying a black jersey with a white “Detroit” wordmark throughout the chest, teal facet panels outlined in maroon and a teal, yellow and maroon striping sample across the collar and arm holes.
It’s successfully a recolour of the Pistons’ 2021-22 City Edition design, which featured lightning bolts down the edges of the jersey and shorts as a nod to their late Nineteen Seventies/early Nineteen Eighties aesthetic. This model, nevertheless, adopts Detroit’s notorious Nineteen Nineties color scheme.
Fittingly, Cunningham wore the 2021-22 Metropolis Version design – which was principally purple with blue, white and teal accents – in his first look on the duvet of SLAM Journal throughout his rookie season (SLAM 238, Might 2022).
His teammates have been those to leak subsequent season’s jerseys, nevertheless, as they wore t-shirts that includes the most recent cowl (SLAM 256) to Monday night time’s recreation in opposition to the Sacramento Kings, prompting sideline reporter Natalie Kerwin to confirm their legitimacy later in the evening.
The Pistons are additionally set to host “SLAM Night time” throughout Thursday’s recreation in opposition to the New York Knicks and followers in attendance will be capable of buy these shirts, although it’s unclear if the staff will reveal all the uniform or it beneath wraps till the NBA’s league-wide Metropolis Version unveiling this fall.
Whether it is merely a recolour of the 2021-22 design, although, the shorts will characteristic a teal waistband that prominently shows the Pistons’ “Flaming Horse” logo, in addition to their present and traditional major marks on reverse legs, just under the lightning bolts.
The brand new uniforms will change Detroit’s present Metropolis Version design, which pays homage to the “Bad Boys” teams that won back-to-back NBA titles in 1989-90 and the long-lasting skull-and-crossbones t-shirts that exploded in reputation throughout their run.
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