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Apparently they are going with a black jersey with branding of The Valley for this year's city edition jersey

ESPN has the details and an interesting how it got there in their insider

https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/st...enix-suns-got-new-black-valley-jerseys-wanted

I kind of dig them and am a little surprised they had league resistance on The Valley as they thought it would be confusing with CA

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They are better than a lot of the City jerseys from other teams... and they are 100x better than those awful purple on purple (with neither purple being Suns purple) uniforms.
 

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If they were going to do it, I would do

.........THE........
.Valley.
.OF THE SUN.

(Disregard the dots. I used them to keep it centered.)

We in Arizona refer to it as "The Valley", but the rest
of the country recognizes is as "The Valley of the Sun".

To the people in the West, "The Valley" refers to the
San Fernando Valley (as Osprey alluded to).

The Valley Boyz is clearly a rip-off of L.A.'s Valley Girls.

Lakers wanna-be's.
 

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If they were going to do it, I would do

.........THE........
.Valley.
.OF THE SUN.

(Disregard the dots. I used them to keep it centered.)

We in Arizona refer to it as "The Valley", but the rest
of the country recognizes is as "The Valley of the Sun".

To the people in the West, "The Valley" refers to the
San Fernando Valley (as Osprey alluded to).

The Valley Boyz is clearly a rip-off of L.A.'s Valley Girls.

Lakers wanna-be's.
There was an interesting article from Zack Lowe on ESPN+ that discussed the origins of the jersey and some earlier designs. Apparently they considered doing “Valley of the Sun” but ultimately thought the designs were too wordy.
 

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There was an interesting article from Zack Lowe on ESPN+ that discussed the origins of the jersey and some earlier designs. Apparently they considered doing “Valley of the Sun” but ultimately thought the designs were too wordy.
If they skip the "The" and put "of the Sun" in small print (as I suggested), it shouldn't be a problem.
 
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There was an interesting article from Zack Lowe on ESPN+ that discussed the origins of the jersey and some earlier designs. Apparently they considered doing “Valley of the Sun” but ultimately thought the designs were too wordy.

Yeah, it was interesting they had earlier designs, fonts, etc

I think if you have a city jersey, let it resonate with your city and your fans

I don't know what the consensus of putting boat house row on a jersey is or how much it is known outside of Philadelphia....... But I think it's cool they went for it

Have some fun, speak to your fans, get your players excited to wear it and push the branding you want to push
 
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I also think that some of those straight forward The Valley t-shirts could sell outside of just basketball fans - stock then at the airport and around the city
 

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Apparently they are going with a black jersey with branding of The Valley for this year's city edition jersey

That's really not bad, especially compared to most of the other horrible buzzword/videogame tie-ins across the league, which are at an epic level of cringe.
 

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The "The Valley" jersey is going to feel a bit weird if the Suns trade Kelly Oubre after he got the "Valley Boyz" theme going.
 

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I love it. Feel bad for Oubre being the face of the Valley Boys but otherwise.... I love it. Will definitely buy the shorts.
 

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