Oh, so that’s what the NBA has up its sleeve.
Images are leaking of the league’s special-edition, shoulder-covering jerseys for Christmas Day — athletic apparel meets Snuggie — and the Knicks’ unis are a retina-scalding orange with blue numbers on the left sleeve and a team logo on the front.
Last season, NBA teams wore monochrome jerseys on Christmas — the Knicks’ were orange — and the Warriors experimented on other dates with a sleeved jersey. It’s more fresh product for the league’s holiday merchandise aisle: 12 dribblers dribbling and a partridge in a pear tree.
The Knicks play the Thunder at the Garden at 2:30 p.m. on Christmas, second in a five-game slate of high-profile nationally televised affairs (Bulls at Nets, Heat at Lakers, Rockets at Spurs, Clippers at Warriors).