More than two years after the NBA announced its global merchandising and marketing partnership with Nike to become the league's official uniform provider beginning with the 2017-18 season, the logistics are beginning to fall into place. The idea of switching out all of the existing product for that which is yet to come seems like a daunting task, but retailers have been preparing for the event for quite some time to ensure a fairly seamless transition.
In order to figure out exactly how all of this will go down, we reached out to Lisa Piken Koper, the NBA's vice president of global partnerships, to get as much information as possible on the league's upcoming uniform switch from adidas to Nike.