nba.colors: NBA colors
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nba.colors

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NBA colors

Description

Returns a named character vector of hex colors for an NBA team. Teams cover the 2026-27 NBA season, plus the Seattle SuperSonics. Call colorr.teams("nba") for the full list of team names.

Usage

nba.colors(
  set = c("blazers", "bucks", "bulls", "cavs", "celtics", "clippers", "grizzlies",
    "hawks", "heat", "hornets", "jazz", "kings", "knicks", "lakers", "magic", "mavs",
    "nets", "nuggets", "pacers", "pelicans", "pistons", "raptors", "rockets", "sixers",
    "sonics", "spurs", "suns", "thunder", "warriors", "wizards", "wolves"),
  legacy = FALSE
)

Arguments

`set`	Character string naming an NBA team.
`legacy`	Logical. If `TRUE`, return the palette that shipped with colorr 1.0.1 instead of the current one, so older figures stay reproducible. Not every team has a legacy palette; teams added since 1.0.1 will throw an error.

Value

Named character vector of hex color strings.

Author(s)

Charles Crabtree charles.crabtree@monash.edu

Examples

# Detroit Pistons colors
pal <- nba.colors("pistons")
pal
pie(rep(1, length(pal)), labels = sprintf("%d (%s)", seq_along(pal), pal), col = pal)

# Milwaukee Bucks colors
nba.colors("bucks")

# the palette that shipped with colorr 1.0.1
nba.colors("pistons", legacy = TRUE)

colorr documentation built on Aug. 22, 2026, 5:08 p.m.