Designed and manufactured by Nike, the US home strip is predominately white with blue around the neck, while the away kit is predominately blue with red around the neck.

Both jerseys feature USA lettering in a v-shape below the neckline with the numbers just below that.

Nike claims the "angle of the USA graphic on the new uniform was inspired by the chevron of the classic Nike Windrunner track jacket that was born in 1978" and represents "a distinctive basketball point of view, based on the roughly 1,000 directional changes, or 'cuts,' that a player might make in the course of a game".

The Nike Hyper Elite uniforms are advertised as "ultra-lightweight" with lining on the inside that is aimed at allowing the athletes to wipe away sweat and moisture from their face.

The mesh materials have various vents all over the kits to help regulate temperature in what Nike describes as its lightest uniform in history.

Houston Rockets star James Harden will be one of the players sporting the new USA strip in Spain later this month ©Nike



The US are the reigning Basketball World Cup champions having defeated hosts Turkey in the final of the 2010 tournament in Istanbul.

The 14-time Olympic champions have been drawn in Group C for this year's World Cup and are one of 24 teams taking part in competition across six Spanish cities - Barcelona, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Granada, Madrid and Seville - from August 30 to September 14.

They will take on Dominican Republic, Finland, New Zealand, Turkey and Ukraine.

Hosts Spain are in Group A up against Brazil, Egypt, European champions France and two-time world champions Serbia.

Group B features Argentina, Croatia, Greece, Philippines, Puerto Rico and Senegal, while Group D is made up of African champions Angola, Australia, Lithuania, Mexico, Slovenia and South Korea.

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