Ranking all 30 NBA jerseys: 20. Houston Rockets
There are a few different teams for which I will look at their jerseys and… just shrug my shoulders. There’s not much to say one way or the other. The Houston Rockets currently fall into that category. They took three colors and simply rotated them around for their three jerseys – white with red trim, red with black trim, black with red trim. That’s it.
The font is strong, bold, and easy to read, although it could use an outline with the white letters on red. The standard home white Association jersey, pictured above, has a sense of being a classic look, even if it’s a little different than looks worn in the past. The red striping down the side is supposed to be indicative of a “rocket launch,” but that’s just marketing mumbo jumbo; over half the teams have similar.
On the black jerseys, there is a gray checker design that supposedly also alludes to a similar design on rockets, although I’m not sure how the standard NBA fan is supposed to know that. With a whole host of rocket-related imagery out there, why not use something actually recognizable to fans? Not this, but something that falls between unrecognizable and garish.
Wife Take: They must have the same designer as the Hawks. The white jerseys all look super plain to me.