Designer who created concept for a Kansas City NBA team blown away by viral reaction

Graphic designer Robbie Poulain was employed in early 2021 by the Kansas Metropolis Royals, who lured him away from the NBA’s Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder.

After 4 years in Oklahoma, Poulain was thrilled to return to Kansas Metropolis, the place he has lived most of his life. However he missed having an NBA workforce on the town (there hasn’t been one for the reason that Kings moved to Sacramento in 1985), so Poulain determined to create an idea for a Kansas Metropolis skilled basketball franchise.

After years of brainstorming and lots of weeks of design work, the result’s a shocking imaginative and prescient of a workforce known as the Kansas Metropolis Reign, which he shared on-line.

The title, which got here after polling greater than 500 folks, had a “frequent denominator” with the Royals, Kings and Monarchs, Poulain wrote.

Poulain selected these colours: black, reign yellow and reign silver for the workforce. He wrote on Twitter that yellow was chosen as a result of the Chiefs, Royals, Mizzou and KU all have it of their shade scheme. He created 4 logos and 4 uniform seems to be.

There is also a court docket design, and visions for a way the T-Cellular Heart may look inside and out of doors.

Greater than 5,000 folks have appreciated his tweet and there have been tons of of responses because it’s gone viral. Almost 10,000 folks have considered the undertaking’s net web page.

“The response has been unimaginable,” Poulain wrote in a Twitter message. “I by no means anticipated it to take off the way in which it did. I anticipated extra criticism when it got here to the colours (ha). The outpouring of help and enthusiasm was wonderful.”

The T-Cellular Heart opened in 2007 and the prevailing thought was an NBA or NHL workforce can be an anchor tenant. That hasn’t occurred, though Kansas Metropolis Mayor Quinton Lucas has made a number of overtures to groups.

Throughout his time with the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, Poulain’s love of the NBA blossomed, and he has little question a workforce may thrive in Kansas Metropolis.

“It could imply the world to have an NBA workforce right here once more,” he wrote. “Energy and Mild (District) is full of life sufficient and not using a workforce there for 41 dwelling video games a 12 months. I can’t think about how full of life it will be with one. The truth that we now have a lot wealthy school basketball ardour round right here exhibits me that KC would help an NBA workforce.”

This story was initially revealed June 7, 2022 1:41 PM.