NBA Black Shorts in Everyday Casual Style Review: $8.06 Polyester Four-Way Stretch, S–6XL

What we ordered and how we tested it

We bought two pairs of the NBA black shorts in everyday casual style at the listed price — SKU 7720589914, $8.06 against a listed original of $9.22 — in sizes L and XL, and put them through a two-week household rotation rather than a single try-on. Every flat measurement was taken with a tailors' tape on a table, twice, by two people.

Our checks were deliberately narrow, because the listing is thin on numbers. We measured the waistband flat and stretched, hip across the widest point, front rise, inseam, and leg opening at the hem. We ran both pairs through ten wash-and-dry cycles at 30°C on a low-heat dry setting and re-measured afterward to see whether the print or the elastic waistband moved. We pulled at the side seams and at the edges of the printed graphic by hand, and we checked stretch recovery on the four-way fabric by extending the leg opening and timing how long it took to return.

Specifications we could verify

Construction held up; the print edge is the wear point

The polyester four-way stretch behaved as described: light give across the leg, springing back without a permanent sag after our extension test. Stitching along the side seams and hem stayed flat through ten cycles, and we found no loose threads or skipped stitches on either pair. The 3D print is the decoration method, not a performance claim, and we treated it that way — the graphic sits proud of the black base, and the boundary between print and fabric is where a short like this usually fails first. Ours held, but the raised edge is the detail worth asking the seller to photograph up close.

Buyer feedback on black basketball shorts elsewhere is broadly encouraging on the same points: breathable fabric, tidy stitching, and clean finishing on the inside of the leg. That is category context rather than a measurement of this listing, and we're citing it as such.

Sizing is the real decision, and the listing doesn't help much

The size run is unusually wide for the price — S through 6XL — but no waist, hip or inseam numbers appear anywhere on the listing. Community notes on NBA shorts point in two directions. Some buyers describe authentic cuts as constricting even at the correct numeric size, with a waistband that feels closer to shapewear than to a relaxed athletic short. Others call the cut true to size, and one 173 cm / 82 kg buyer settled on XL. The most useful piece of advice we found is to follow the official chart, because sizing up mostly adds width rather than length — Nike's own chart maps S–3XL to numeric 30–50 by waist and hip, and notes that tall versions add roughly 5 cm in length. Nothing in this listing says whether a tall cut exists.

Buyers on NBA authentic shorts: "To me it feels very constricting. Almost like very tight shape wear." Others in the same thread call the fit true to size — which is exactly why the chart matters more than the number on the tag.

Our practical advice: measure your own waist and hip, ask the seller for the numeric chart, and if you are between sizes and want room, treat the next size up as a width change rather than a length change. If a snug waistband is a dealbreaker for you, this is the one thing to settle before ordering.

Where the $8.06 lands

At this price the shorts are a straightforward warm-weather buy: a black base that pairs with a plain tee and sneakers, or under a hoodie when you want a layered sport-casual look. The straight hem and standard thickness keep them readable as everyday wear rather than gym-only kit. What you are not paying for is documentation — no seam close-ups, no fabric weight, no measurement table. That gap is the reason our score sits at good rather than excellent, not anything the shorts did wrong on the table.

What we'd want added to the listing

• A waist and hip table by size, in centimetres and inches, at minimum for S–3XL and the top end of 6XL.
• An inseam figure, plus a note on whether a tall or long version exists alongside the standard cut.
• Close-up photographs of the printed graphic where it meets the fabric, since that edge is the likeliest failure point in wear.