The Cavaliers will wear the blue, art museum-inspired uniforms at six home games this season.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In recent years, the Cavaliers have used their City Edition uniforms to spotlight the best Cleveland has to offer, from Playhouse Square and the Cleveland Metroparks to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Lake Erie, and the pride and community spirit of The Land. With their latest threads, revealed Thursday, the team honors one of the city’s cultural treasures: the Cleveland Museum of Art, bringing a new level of artistry to the court.
The uniform features a two-tone blue design: the powder blue represents the shade used in the museum’s branding while the darker royal blue represents the color the Cavs wore in the mid-1990s. Across the chest, “The Land” is displayed in a striped font inspired by the architecture of the museum’s west wing and its logo.
The culmination of a nearly three-year design process, the uniform is intended to be an interactive art piece, with distinctive side panels along the jerseys and shorts. These panels display Cleveland-inspired motifs and symbols resembling pages from a coloring book and inviting fans to personalize their jerseys by coloring in the designs. The jocktag at the bottom of the jersey says, “Designed by.
As part of the launch, the Cavaliers and the Cleveland Museum of Art reiterated their commitment to art and arts education, announcing a $10,000 donation to the, a nonprofit that has offered performing and visual arts education programming for Greater Cleveland’s youth and families since 1904.
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