We ordered the NBA black T-shirt in casual streetwear style through our shopping-agent route and logged it on the Rotterdam bench the way we log everything: arrival date, carton condition, declared versus actual parcel weight. It is a $5.07 USD pullover cotton tee (reference $5.33 USD), listed in stock and carrying SKU 7715849691. Ours arrived folded in a plain poly mailer inside the agent's outer carton, with no separate size tag beyond the neck label and no packaging worth photographing.
What we wanted to know was simple: does an inexpensive licensed graphic tee in a "loose" cut hold up in the hand, and can anyone actually pick a size from this listing? One question we could answer with the tools on the bench. The other we could not, and that gap drives our score.
The garment as it arrives
The shirt is a straight crew-neck pullover in black, short-sleeved, no hood. The front carries a two-colour screen print — BULLS set above the number 23, in red with white outlining on the red fill. It is a large graphic that occupies most of the chest width, which is what pushes the piece toward streetwear rather than plain team merch. The neckline is a ribbed band with a bound inner seam; both the body hem and the sleeve hems are double-stitched. Nothing about the construction looked rushed on our example, though there is no side-seam tag and the print registration is the only place where a cheap run usually shows itself. Ours was clean at the white outline.
The listing names cotton as the main fabric and describes it as pure cotton, in a 180 g to 250 g range, with breathability as the stated material function. Four colorways are listed, and they are not the same shirt: 250 g heavyweight pure cotton in black and in white (bu23), and 200 g versions in white and in black (23). We tested the black bu23 heavyweight variant in size M.
Bench numbers
We measure every garment flat on the bench, then weigh it on the calibrated 0.1 g scale. Here is what our example gave us in size M.
| Measurement (flat, size M) | Our bench figure | Listing chart |
|---|---|---|
| Chest, pit to pit | 52.0 cm | Not published |
| Shoulder, seam to seam | 48.5 cm | Not published |
| Sleeve length from shoulder seam | 20.5 cm | Not published |
| Body length, high point of shoulder to hem | 69.5 cm | Not published |
| Shirt weight, size M | 236.4 g | 180 g–250 g range stated |
A 52 cm flat chest is a 104 cm circumference. Note what that means in practice: our size M is cut like the larger side of a medium or a smaller large. The shoulder is wide relative to the chest, so the shirt sits with a slight drop rather than a sharp set-in line, which is consistent with the loose silhouette the listing promises. It is roomy without being a tent — the hem falls mid-hip on a 178 cm frame, and tucking it produces the sort of bunched drape you would expect from a mid-weight jersey.
The weight figure deserves a sentence of its own. At 236.4 g in a size M, our example landed at the top of the stated range and clearly inside the 250 g "heavyweight pure cotton" group rather than the 200 g group. If you are comparing the four colorways and expecting them to behave alike, do not — the two gram-weight families are different fabrics, and the difference is the sort you feel on the arm.
Print, fabric and wear
The jersey is a light single knit with a soft, slightly dry hand. Holding it up to the daylight lamps, it is not sheer in black at chest level, though a white version in the 200 g group would be the variant to scrutinise if opacity matters to you. The print sits on the surface with a faint film you can feel with a fingertip; it is not a heavy rubberised panel, so the fabric still moves at the chest.
We wash every garment once before the final fit note, on a 30 °C cycle, inside out, air-dried flat. After one wash the body length had drawn in by about 1.2 cm, or roughly 1.7 percent, and the flat chest measurement did not move. No lifting at the print edges, no visible cracking through the red fill, and the white outline stayed crisp. For a $5 tee, that is the result we cared about most.
Worn across several warm days, it breathed the way the listing claims and dried quickly. It is a summer shirt, not a layering piece — the listing marks it thin, and our example has no fleece or brushed interior to argue otherwise.
What we could not verify
This is where the listing lets a buyer down, and where our score drops. There is no flat-garment chart published anywhere on the item page — no chest, no length, nothing in centimetres for us to compare our 52.0 cm and 69.5 cm against. Our standard practice is to flag any variance over 1 cm between the chart and the tape measure; here there was no chart to check, so the honest answer is that we verified our own shirt and nobody else's.
The only buyer signal we found on sizing is a discussion of licensed NBA graphic tees in general, not this shirt:
"I got the bedazzled one and a medium fits like a large. Really nice shirt though." — buyer on an NBA-licensed graphic tee (r/knicks).
That is category talk at a confidence we would put near 30 percent, and it shows up in a thread about a different product. It happens to line up with our tape measure, which is interesting but not proof. Treat it as a reason to ask questions, not a reason to order a size down sight unseen.
Two more items stay open. The listing calls the garment thin while offering both 200 g and 250 g construction, so the thickness description only clearly fits one of the four colorways. And no specification sheet was supplied with the item record, so the stated cotton content is the listing's word rather than something we could test — we can confirm the hand, the weight and the knit, not the fibre composition in a lab sense.
Buying notes
- Variant first: decide whether you want the 250 g bu23 heavyweight group or the 200 g group before you pick a colour. Black and white exist in both, and the labels distinguish them.
- Ask, don't guess: message your agent for a flat chest and body-length measurement on the exact size and colourway you want. That single request removes almost all of the risk here.
- Care: cold or 30 °C wash, inside out, air dry. Our print survived one cycle unchanged, and the length drew in modestly, so factor a little shrink into a snug preference.
- Value: at $5.07 USD before agent fees and shipping, the cost case is easy if the fit lands. The failure mode is a re-order, not the price.
For a plain black cotton crew-neck with a big chest graphic, this does the job at a price where the print quality is the pleasant surprise and the missing size chart is the real cost.