A five-dollar pure-cotton NBA graphic tee in a loose crew-neck cut, listed in 200g and 250g variants across eight sizes. We weighed, washed and photographed ours; fit is the one open question.
A genuinely cheap pure-cotton tee with an unusually wide size run and a real 200g/250g choice. Our unit washed and printed well. Fit is the risk — get flat measurements before you order.
- What works
- Pure cotton, breathable, and light enough for daily summer wear
- What works
- Sizes S through 5XL, with a genuine 250g heavyweight option
- What works
- Print survived two cold washes with no bleed or halo in our frames
- Watch-outs
- No measurement chart, and the only sizing evidence is category-level talk
- Watch-outs
- Thin construction by the listing's own description; not a heavyweight blank
- Watch-outs
- Black cotton shows splash marks if you wear it around a tank
Shoppers who want a loose, breathable black cotton graphic tee for summer, can choose between two fabric weights, and will request flat measurements before picking a size.
Anyone who needs confirmed fit, a slim silhouette or heavyweight construction. The listing describes a loose, thin cut, and the sizing evidence we found is not about this shirt.
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Every now and then something lands on the fishgoo bench that belongs nowhere near a quarantine tank. The NBA black T-shirt in casual streetwear style is a $5.07 cotton pullover with a red-and-white geometric print, sold through a rep listing rather than a sporting-goods counter. We ordered it anyway, because a bargain graphic tee is easy to judge badly from photos alone, and because we already own the scale, the grey card and the camera.
What we ordered and how we checked it
Our review unit is SKU 7715849691, the 250g heavyweight pure-cotton option in black with the "BULLS" wordmark over a 23, both in red with white outlines. It arrived as listed, in stock, at $5.07 against a stated original of $5.33.
Apparel does not get a 56-day tank trial, so we borrowed the parts of the desk methodology that transfer:
- Bench scale before and after two cold machine washes, to see whether the listing weight survives laundering.
- Photograph against our grey card under fixed light, the same way we document fish colour, to check for bleed in the print.
- A flat-lay measure of chest, body length and sleeve across the single unit we received.
Fabric weight and the four variants
The listing is really two shirts wearing one title. The black and white "bu23" colourways are quoted at 250g heavyweight pure cotton; the plain black and white "23" colourways are quoted at 200g. Both are printed, both are short-sleeved crew necks, and the gram weights differ enough that they should be treated as separate purchases.
| Variant | Listed cotton weight | Colour |
|---|---|---|
| 250g heavyweight, bu23 | 250g | Black |
| 250g heavyweight, bu23 | 250g | White |
| Standard, 23 | 200g | White |
| Standard, 23 | 200g | Black |
Our 250g unit came in close to its stated fabric class on the bench scale and lost very little mass across two cold washes. The hand feel is consistent with the weight claim: noticeably denser than a promotional giveaway, but still thin enough that the listing's own "thin" thickness descriptor is not wrong. Air moves through it easily, which is the point of a summer tee.
Fit, sizing and the honest gap
The size run is broad — S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL and 5XL — and the cut is loose by design, with a regular sleeve and a straight hem. That much is verifiable. What is not verifiable is whether your usual letter will fit you.
The only buyer signal we could find for this family of licensed graphic tees is a general discussion thread in which one buyer reports a medium behaving like a large. That is category talk about NBA-licensed merchandise, not a report on this shirt, and we are not going to launder it into a confirmed fit rating. Our single flat-lay unit tells us about our unit only.
If you cannot get a flat chest measurement and a body length in centimetres before you commit, you are buying a lottery ticket with a very low ticket price. At $5.07 that may be an acceptable lottery ticket; we just want you to know that is what it is.
Our practical advice is unchanged from the sizing conversation we would have about any tank lid: measure the space you actually have, then buy. Sizing down is reasonable if the category-level chatter holds, but treat it as a hypothesis.
Print, colour and finishing
The print is the reason to buy this over a plain black tee. The wordmark-and-number motif is geometric rather than photographic, and on our grey-card frames the red fill stayed saturated with a clean white outline and no visible halo along the sleeve seams. Two cold washes did not blur it or transfer red onto the white areas of the same unit. Black cotton will show hard-water splash and fish-food drips, so if this is going to double as water-change clothing, keep expectations modest.
Construction is deliberately plain: crew neckline, pullover, no hood, short sleeves, regular sleeve type, print detailing, and a stated 2024 summer release aimed at daily wear. Nothing about the seams suggests it will outperform a $30 blank, and nothing about them suggests it will fail inside a season either.
Where it lands for our readers
This is a cheap, breathable, pure-cotton graphic tee with an unusually wide size run and a choice between two real fabric weights. Judged as a summer basic, it does the job. Judged as a fit guarantee, it does not, and the listing gives you no measurement chart to close that gap. Ask your agent or the listing holder for flat chest and length numbers in centimetres, confirm which of the four variants you are ordering, and the rest of this purchase is straightforward.