For the new 2025-26 season, in what is effectively a “greatest hits” concept by Nike and the NBA, teams across the league are returning to a previous City Edition uniform.
A few of the NBA’s 30 teams are using alternate color versions, but each is doing at least a variation of a popular concept from the first few years of the program. Most are simply running it back with their most beloved version, as is.
In Houston, that means bringing back the 2023-24 “dunkstronaut” concept. For that, the idea was and is to pay homage to the city’s history (both in basketball and beyond) with a unique uniform featuring a dunking astronaut logo, and it also includes a a custom, matching court design at Toyota Center for those City Edition games.
Rockets Wire first reported the news in June.
On Sunday, players on the Rockets debuted the 2025-26 City threads in a special fan event with season-ticket holders (images and videos below). The next day, the team announced on social media that the dunkstronaut-themed uniforms would return with the Nov. 12 home game against the Washington Wizards.
Game by game, each team’s complete uniform schedule for the 2025-26 campaign will be released on NBA LockerVision in the coming days.
This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: Rockets to relaunch ‘dunkstronaut’ City Edition uniforms on Nov. 12
