Now that the NBA has released the designs for the 2020-21 City Edition jerseys, I can definitively say what I’ve known for weeks: The Spurs have the best jersey in the NBA. 

The Fiesta jersey harkens back to the Spurs’ iconic warmup wear and court design from the ’90s, and pays homage to San Antonio’s vibrant history and culture, and its Hispanic community in particular. It is a welcome splash of color to the franchise’s rather drab palette of white, black, gray, and, when the team feels really frisky, camo. Teal, pink, and orange stripes underline an elegantly scripted “San Antonio,” the first time the city’s name has graced the front of the Spurs’ jersey since 1989. The rowel that dots the “i” is the rancher’s equivalent of a chef’s kiss. 

[Join Isaac Levy-Rubinett as he celebrates the Spurs' Fiesta jersey while looking at San Antonio's young talent.]

“You don’t have to look like this,” says Barbara Walters to Dolly Parton in 1977, having just asked Parton to stand up and vamp a bit to better show off, well, you know. Walters air-traces a cartoonish female figure with her hands and everything, like a horny teenage boy, and yet she sounds almost pained, phrasing her underlying question to the bubbly country superstar like a plea, like an intervention. “You’re very beautiful. You don’t have to wear the blonde wigs. You don’t have to wear the extreme clothes. Right?”

Parton’s radiant baby-blue dress is not, by her standards, all that extreme; also keep in mind that Walters’s previous question was “Do you give your measurements?” (“No,” Parton replies politely, sitting back down.) The vibe is not great, but again: 1977. “No, it’s certainly a choice,” Parton allows, before explaining, with her trademark bottomless good cheer, why she has to look like this. “I don’t like to be like everybody else. I’ve often made the statement that I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. That’s the easiest thing in the world to do.”