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NBA, Grateful Dead collaborate on shirts with skull, dancing bear artwork

The NBA and the Grateful Dead have collaborated to cheap jerseys from china produce t-shirts that combine the logos of various playoff teams with the legendary band’s famous artwork.

The men’s shirts feature a modified version of the Grateful Dead’s signature skull logo, which appeared on the Steal Your Face album cover in 1976. A basketball design replaces the lightning bolt in the center of the skull. The women’s shirts star one of the group’s “dancing bear” figures that was included on History of the Grateful Dead, discount jerseys Volume One (Bear’s Choice) in 1973. Both designs include team names and logos in 1970s era lettering.

A host of playoff-bound teams — including the Heat, cheap nfl jersey Lakers, Thunder, Celtics, Knicks, Clippers, Bulls, Nets, and Warriors — will get their own version of the shirts, which will be available in mid-April on Sportiqe.com and various retailers for $35-$45. That’s assuming Naismith Hall of Famer and notorious “Deadhead” Bill Walton hasn’t purchased the entire stock in advance, of course.