At the sports desk on the Good Pirate Ship RedState, which is somewhere below decks, we frequently observe a gap between words and deeds in the sporting world. You know the scenario: sportsmen and team or league executives claim to care about human rights issues or other matters, but their actions show that they have no intention of following through on their words. Enough already about LeBron James.
The Golden State Warriors 2022-2023 City Edition jersey is the most recent example of talking the talk while doing in the opposite way. A few background details. One, I have openly supported the Warriors since I was a young child. Throughout several of the team's tough years, I had a season ticket, so every few weeks I would leave the house and head to the Oakland Coliseum Arena, saying to my wife, "Bye honey — I'm going to go see the Warriors lose." I'm not a bandwagon jumper, to put it briefly. Second, I was around back when almost every major sports organization had two uniforms since I am so ancient. Aside from football, you would wear white at home. Baseball required wearing gray on the road; basketball and hockey required wearing the team's primary color; and football required wearing white. Those times are gone, and in their place are numerous uniforms in every color of the spectrum. perhaps a genuine rainbow. Or something that the cat concocted.
Each NBA team currently has four or five different jerseys to choose from, including the Association Edition, City Edition, Classic Edition, Icon Edition, and Statement Edition. This increases the likelihood that either little Johnny or Susie will have a meltdown on Christmas Day by a factor of three or four, respectively. Reason? This holiday season, Mom and Dad seem strangely preoccupied with trying to figure out how to pay the family's food, heating, and gas expenses without selling little Johnny or Susie into a wandering gypsy band. They thus purchased the incorrect jersey for their young monster. At least, I hope they acquired the proper player. The NBA also maintains a webpage that helpfully lists the jerseys that each team will wear for any given game, preventing game-goers from the massive social faux pas of donning a Statement Edition when everyone knows it's Icon night.
The Association (formerly known as the home white) and Icon (previously known as the away team color) jerseys often remain the same from year to year, however the City, Classic, and Statement Edition jerseys frequently change more frequently than a Kardashian's romantic status. This is particularly true if your team often wins because, for some strange reason, winning teams tend to sell a lot more gear. Oh, right.
Anyway, yesterday, November 10, the Warriors debuted the City Edition shirt for this year, and uh, wow.
The Woke Olympics have been won, talk about it.
Although fertilizer also aids in growth, I wouldn't designate a professional sports team's uniform to it.
You do realize that this is the NBA and not the WNBA, don't you? Speaking of the latter, why don't the Warriors, who play in the capital of global awakening and whose owners have more money than even the typical politician would know how to spend, have a WNBA team if women's sports are the future? This speaks volumes about the WNBA, much more so than any frantic ESPN report. But I digress.
This might work if the artist had chosen the state flower, in this case the California poppy, given that the team's name is Golden State. No, let's continue to include feminine symbolism on a MENS BASKETBALL JERSEY.
The Warriors will wear the new uniform for the first time against the Cleveland Cavaliers at home tonight (November 11). Maybe they're expecting that the other team will be too busy laughing at these things to play well, given the squad's current 4-7 record.
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