It is time that the Cavaliers mothball their City Edition uniforms

The fourth uniform in the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Nike rebrand has been a huge letdown. From their inception to their play, the team has been a failure in their City Edition jerseys.

While there were a lot of major storylines heading into the 2017-18 NBA regular season, one that affected every team was the fact that every team would have their uniforms designed and produced by Nike. Nike’s master plan was to have a home uniform, an away uniform, an alternate uniform, and a uniform inspired by the team’s city, simply called “City Edition”. For the Cleveland Cavaliers, this would be huge because of LeBron James, who is Nike’s most influential athlete and they would get a pretty solid overhaul from them.

Before the season started, the Cavs looked great, as Nike and the team showcased their home whites, away wines, and alternate black uniforms, which are based off the Cavaliers winning their first title in franchise history.

But, one thing that the Cavaliers and Nike themselves were hyping up for the longest time was the City Edition uniforms which, according to Nike, were:

"The Nike NBA City Edition uniforms represent insights and emotion from the court to the upper deck to the cities’ streets, in pursuit of a unique way to capture each team and its city in a way that respects the past and present of the clubs while also positioning them for the future."

The idea seemed great, as the city of Cleveland has a robust history of being known as the birthplace of Rock and Roll and of Superman, to even the Cuyahoga River infamously catching on fire. With so many options to draw inspiration from, the Cavaliers were a bit of a let down when they finally revealed their City Edition uniforms to the world:

While the idea of using the iconic Guardians of Transportation as part of the inspiration for the uniforms, and the fact that they feature LeBron James’ pet name for the city in “The Land”, the uniforms arguably fall flat for a few key reasons.

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The most obvious one is the color scheme, which seems more appropriate for the city of Pittsburgh, with its black, yellow, and grey, and that is exactly what Browns fans want to see on the only championship winning team in town.

Speaking of the Browns, the Cavaliers also have their team name running up their pants leg, and it looks just as bad as the Mistake on the Lake’s costumes.

With the City Edition uniforms being a dud, the Cavaliers also decided to be a dud by laying quite a few stinkers in the other uniforms too. The team’s debut in the City Edition dud was exactly that, a 120-88 loss to the Houston Rockets.

Recently, the Cavaliers have had two ugly losses against the Philadelphia 76ers (108-97) and the Denver Nuggets (126-117), both while wearing the infamous Greys.  The only silver lining to the otherwise grey City Edition cloud is this awesome game winner by LeBron James against the Minnesota Timberwolves:

Overall, the team has a record of 1-5 in their Greys, and despite the game-winner, it is pretty clear that the Cavs need to mothball the City uniforms. Their only win in them was against the Timberwolves, and that took overtime and luck to make it happen.

Other than that, they have looked lackluster and uninspired whenever they wear them, with the loss to the Rockets being the best example of this.

The city of Cleveland has been always superstitious with their sports teams, for almost any reason. One conspiracy is that workers placed a Terrible Towel in the foundation of First Energy Stadium and cursed the Browns. Another is the Curse of Rocky Colavito, which is what is holding the Indians back from a championship.

Finally, before the 2015-16 NBA season, the biggest curse was the infamous championship drought the city suffered. Well, add the Grey Curse to the list as that is only explanation to why the team just looks so bad.

The team has plenty of solid options in their other three uniforms that have some semblance of history. So before fans start to point the finger at Ty Lue, or Tristan Thompson, or Dan Gilbert, maybe they should direct their attention at Nike’s latest curfuffle.

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Thankfully, the team only has to wear the jerseys four more times this season and then they will be gone forever. Next season, Nike should get a better gameplan for the Cavaliers’ fourth uniform ,and hopefully, the team does not look terrible every time they wear them.