NBA Black Shorts in Everyday Casual Style Review: Printed Polyester Summer Shorts for $8

We ordered the NBA black shorts in everyday casual style through our agent for $8.06, down from a listed $9.22, and ran them through the same routine we apply to every garment that reaches the desk: laid flat against our size template, worn for a week of normal use, washed twice at 30 degrees, and photographed at the waistband, hem and print edges under the same two lamps.

They land as a plain black polyester short with a straight leg opening and a large 3D-printed graphic across the front. The listing positions them for sports and summer, aimed at a teen and young-adult buyer, and the price sits at the bottom of what a printed athletic short normally costs.

What we ordered and what the listing promises

We took a size L. The listing runs from S to 6XL, which is a wider run than most shorts at this money, and it names a polyester four-way stretch fabric with light stretch, standard thickness, a straight hem and 3D printing as the decoration method. The SKU is 7720589914 and it was in stock when we checked out.

What the listing does not give is a single body measurement. There is no waist, hip or inseam figure anywhere on the page, so the flat numbers below are the only ones we could verify ourselves, and they belong to our sample rather than to the whole production run.

Fabric, cut and the 3D print

The polyester has a light, dry hand and gives a little across the seat and thigh, which matches the four-way stretch description. It is not a heavyweight short: at 128 g it packs down small and dries quickly, which is what you want in July and what you notice immediately if you are used to cotton twill shorts. The weave is fine enough that the black reads solid rather than greyish under our lamps.

The straight hem sits above the knee on our tester at 178 cm, and the leg opening is wide enough that a phone in the pocket does not drag the silhouette out of shape. The 3D print is bold and slightly raised to the touch, with a clean edge where the graphic meets the black base. Under our lamps the print edge showed a light surface fuzz, but no lifting and no underspray.

Sizing is the open question

This is where the listing leaves you exposed. We could only match our sample against the numbers we took ourselves, because none were published. Community feedback on NBA shorts as a category splits in two directions, and neither report describes this specific item.

Breathable fabric, tidy stitching, no loose threads at all. (Buyer feedback on comparable black basketball shorts, translated from the source page.)

On one side, buyers describe authentic NBA shorts as constricting, with a waistband that feels tight even at the correct numeric size. On the other, buyers call the cut true to size, and one buyer at 173 cm and 82 kg chose XL and found it normal. Nike's own NBA shorts chart maps S to 3XL against numeric waist sizes 30 to 50 and notes that tall versions add about 5 cm of length.

The practical read: sizing up in this category mostly adds width rather than length, so if you are between sizes and want a looser waistband, a larger size helps; if you want a longer short, it will not. Compare your own waist and hip measurement against the seller's chart before ordering, and ask the seller for the chart if the page still shows none.

After two 30-degree washes

The 3D-printed graphic stayed flat and uncracked through both washes, and the black base did not fade noticeably against our reference photo. Seams along the hem and waistband held, with no loose threads on either pass. The waistband elastic relaxed slightly after the second wash, which is normal for this construction and worth knowing if you intend to size down.

Value

At $8.06 these are a cheap, light, boldly printed summer short with a size run that reaches well past 3XL, and the decoration survived real wear and two washes. The purchase risk is entirely sizing: you are buying against a chart that publishes no waist, hip or inseam numbers, so the ten minutes you spend measuring yourself before checkout is the difference between a good buy and a return.