The NBA updated its LockerVision website Thursday with the specific uniforms to be worn by the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers during their second-round playoff series, which begins on Friday.
For the most part, there won’t be a lot of game-to-game variance. With the exception of Sunday’s Game 2, LeBron James and the Lakers will wear their gold Nike “Icon” jerseys in each game of the best-of-seven series. On Sunday, they will wear the team’s black “Classic” jerseys.
Meanwhile, James Harden and the Rockets will wear their black “Statement” uniforms in five of the seven games, starting with Friday’s Game 1. Houston went 3-1 in its Statement jerseys in the first round, including the Game 7 clincher over Oklahoma City on Wednesday night.
This is the first time that know of that ESPN has used black in the Rockets part of the scorebug. It’s nice, always cool when the network coordinates with the jerseys. pic.twitter.com/GreYFDus7J
— Rockets 🚀 Tracker (@RocketsTracker) September 3, 2020
The exceptions for the Rockets will be Sunday’s Game 2 and next Thursday’s Game 4, when they will wear their red Icon jersey set. The Rockets were 1-1 in the first round while donning the Icon uniforms.
Game 1 between the Rockets and Lakers is set for 8:00 p.m. Central on Friday, with a national broadcast on ESPN. The Lakers will be the “home” team in Game 1, Game 2, and Game 5 and Game 7 (if necessary) — though with all games played at the Disney World “bubble” in Florida, home-court advantage shouldn’t mean what it usually does.
Games will be played every other day until one team wins four games, with the winner advancing to the Western Conference Finals.
Round 2 starts Friday!#OneMission pic.twitter.com/pGWaKwkVoo
— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) September 3, 2020
