NBA Fans Are Offended Over The Milwaukee Bucks' Jersey Design Appearing To Have 'Thin Blue Line' (PIC + TWEETS)

NBA Fans Are Offended Over The Milwaukee Bucks’ Jersey Design Appearing To Have ‘Thin Blue Line’ (PIC + TWEETS)

January 20, 2021, 8:38pm EST (Updated: January 17, 2023, 8:50pm)By Darrelle Lincoln

NBA fans are not happy with the Milwaukee Bucks this week.

The team brought back their popular ‘Fear The Deer’ jerseys this year, but decided to add striping across the chest and cream-colored numbers. The stripes are blue, black, green, cream and white, representing what the franchise calls the “Cream City rainbow.”

The only thing fans noticed was the thin blue line on it and it led to controversy as fans thought the team was secretly supporting police in the wake of Jacob Blake being shot multiple times in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020.

What's with the "thin blue line" on the Bucks' jersey this year???? @NBA @Bucks @TrueHoop @BigWos @seeratsohi @netw3rk @EdgeofSports @Giannis_An34 @KingJames @Herring_NBA @davidaldridgedc @andraydomise @TheSteinLine @mspears96 pic.twitter.com/gAJwljS7hq
— Giannis Anti-Pop Consortium (@BballLiferNBA) January 20, 2021

Has a strange resemblance to this white supremacist symbol: pic.twitter.com/tAuhps3lVB
— Giannis Anti-Pop Consortium (@BballLiferNBA) January 20, 2021

Looking at Milwaukee Bucks uniforms over the years, the “Cream City Rainbow” has never included the color blue. Now, @Nike unveils a @Bucks uni with a Blue Lives Matter stripe, in a city whose police dept. has a current brutality case against it by Bucks player Sterling Brown? pic.twitter.com/p0Tn0DU8JO
— Full Dissident (@hbryant42) October 11, 2019

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Hey @Bucks, any chance we can get versions of this gear without the, um, thin blue line? pic.twitter.com/d9sWxLPbU5
— Simon Balto (@SimonBalto) January 16, 2021

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Has nobody told the Bucks these jerseys look like the thin blue line flag?
— Tad (@itsActuallyTed) January 16, 2021

that blue line on the bucks jersey is very thin blue line, yeah?
— goldenbeets (@goldenbeets) January 16, 2021

As for the team on the court, they are 9-5 on the year as they get set to face the Los Angeles Lakers at home.

Antetokounmpo is averaging 27.2 points, 10.2 rebounds and 5.3 assists for the Bucks.