{"id":715229,"date":"2026-04-21T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:04:30","slug":"spurs-fiesta-jerseys-shirts-will-return-for-nba-playoffs-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715229\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Fiesta Jerseys, Shirts Will Return for NBA Playoffs Second Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe San Antonio Spurs<\/a> have waited seven years since their last home playoff game in 2019, and the franchise returned to the postseason with a splash on Sunday night. The team distributed shirts in its bright 1990s \u201cFiesta\u201d shades to fans based on what section of the arena they were sitting. The crowd\u2019s apparel matched the court and the team\u2019s City Edition uniforms, creating a cohesive, color-blocking aesthetic that drew near-universal praise on social media.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s great to see this many people wear the shirts,\u201d Spurs\u2019 All-Star center Victor Wembanyama said after the game. \u201cIt\u2019s probably the most excited I\u2019ve seen this arena.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite the popularity of the tangerine, turquoise and fuchsia color scheme, Spurs fans won\u2019t see it much throughout the rest of the postseason. The team won\u2019t wear its City Edition jerseys at home during the remainder of the first round, although road games haven\u2019t been ruled out yet depending on its opponent\u2019s uniform choices.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a conversation that we have with the team and their reps as to what jerseys they want to wear,\u201d Spurs associate director of game presentation Carter Snowden said. \u201cThings get superstitious in the playoffs, regardless if you\u2019re a fan or a player, in not wanting to commit to a particular jersey for every game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Spurs plan to have another \u201cFiesta\u201d night in the second round if San Antonio advances as expected. It became league policy starting with the 2025 playoffs, however, for teams to stick to their primary colors for the conference finals and Finals, so the Fiesta jerseys won\u2019t be worn then.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Spurs are content to wait another two weeks to showcase their Fiesta colors, given that they sat on the idea for years before attempting to pull it off. The Spurs brought back their 90s colors in the 2020-21 season, and the City Edition collection accounted for over 50% of retail revenue that year. The team knew it eventually wanted to wear the Fiesta jerseys in the postseason during Fiesta, an annual April festival held in San Antonio dating back over 100 years, but it never had the opportunity until now.<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce this year\u2019s squad appeared playoff-bound several months ago, the organization began planning how many of each color shirt would be needed and which sections would wear which.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe setup was an undertaking, requiring around 75 part-time ushers to pitch in. Three game presentation assistants were appointed team leaders\u2014one for each color. After unboxing 20,000 shirts, the rest of the staff paired up in different sections around the area, with one putting the shirts on the seats and the other following behind and straightening them out.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe next step was fan buy-in, but that generated organically. \u201cWe were just doing random crowd coverage before the game [on the jumbotron, and] people were booing the shots of the other Spurs fans that didn\u2019t have their shirt on,\u201d Snowden said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t even really need to do anything on the game presentation side.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s become common for teams to rotate in alternate jerseys during the playoffs. The Phoenix Suns memorably made a run to the 2021 NBA Finals wearing their \u201cValley\u201d City Edition gradient uniforms for every home game, but given the league playoff uniform policy established in 2025, perhaps the NBA believed teams took their uniform freedom too far. In the 2024 Finals, for instance, the Dallas Mavericks wore black alternates for Game 1, followed by the Boston Celtics wearing their black alternates for Game 2, causing potential confusion for casual fans. Last year, the Indiana Pacers wore their City Edition jerseys with a light blue \u201cINDY\u201d on their chests for several games during the first two rounds, but had to stash them for the later rounds when they made a surprise run to the Finals.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Spurs\u2019 Fiesta shirts were paid for by the team\u2019s jersey sponsor Ledger, a French cryptocurrency company, but different shirts for future games will have different sponsors. Tuesday\u2019s Game 2 shirts will be sponsored by team partner H-E-B, and arena preparation was already underway early Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Spurs have waited seven years since their last home playoff game in 2019, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,6,11,969,474,4075,4074,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-715229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-playoffs","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sanantoniospurs","15":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116443318410684121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}