NBA Finals The Missing T-Shirts

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Toronto Raptors  2019 NBA Finals winner. 

Boston Celtics? Golden State Warriors? Which basketball team will win the 2022 NBA Finals? We’ll let them sort it out but, two things are certain.

Champagne and championship T-shirts are on ice, waiting for the winner. Champagne is expected but T-shirts? That is the untold story. T-shirts written 2022 FINALS are hidden in boxes waiting to be unfurled after the last dunk or 3-pointer.

What is intriguing about NBA Finals is that both the Boston Celtics and Warriors have 2022 FINALS championship T-shirts on ice, like champagne. Well! Not on ice. They’ll get wet. Anyway, the point is: only one team will hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy.

Championship T-shirts are for the photo-shoot I guess, but what I want to know is, how and when teams design them and send orders to China, where they are printed.

Losing team. What happens to their T-shirts? I’ve never seen them on e-Bay or anywhere online. Do they burn them? We usually burn ugly reminders.

For example, Toronto Raptors won the 2019 Finals against Golden State Warriors. Bham! Championship T-shirts appeared from nowhere. Kawhi Leonard, Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, OG Anunoby, Norman Powell, Serge Ibaka, Danny Green and all players put them on, for the photo shoot.

Warriors definitely had their own in boxes somewhere. What happened to them? NBA Finals, the story of the missing loser T-shirts!

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.

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