The Chicago Bulls are the first team to formally announce they’ll be breaking the tradition of home and away uniforms. Instead of going with the typical white jersey with a red trim at home, they’ll be sporting red jerseys with black lettering and a white trim:
Bulls are first team to announce they’re wearing dark jerseys at home
The Bulls will wear red jerseys during their home games next season.
The Bulls will still have their white jersey but will wear it primarily on the road as their “Association” jersey:
This makes a lot of sense for the Bulls because red and black are their most iconic colors. When we think of Michael Jordan in his prime, many of our most fond memories of him come in that red away Bulls jersey.
Think about it: What was he wearing during the flu game? Red. When he hit the shot over Craig Ehlo? Red. The final shot of his career with the Bulls? You guessed it — red. This is a legendary color scheme in Chicago.
But that does mean we could see a lot less of the traditional white uniforms next season. The home team selects what jersey it’ll be wearing for the night, and road teams have to adjust.
If whomever the Bulls are playing holds true to tradition and goes with lighter colors at home, the Bulls will end up having to switch from their primary road uniforms to another choice.
Teams will have four selections to alternate among for jersey choice. There’s the Icon look, the Association look, and two alternates between Community look and the “Athlete’s Mindset” edition. Teams will choose between the Icon and Association look as their home and away jerseys and use the other two as alternates.
The Bulls bucked a trend, but things were meant to be flexible in this new system anyway. There will likely be other teams that choose dark and colorful uniforms as their home look.
Ultimately, it’s not going to be too big of a deal and will probably end up being pretty fun, with teams alternating jerseys on a night-to-night basis. The point of this was to have some sort of variation between jerseys during each game, and from the looks of it, things are going to work out that way.
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