No I don’t think minimalism is what killed jerseys, a lot of beloved jerseys you could call minimalist like the show time lakers jerseys. A lot of beloved jerseys that stood the test of time are not that detailed The problem to me is the fonts, the fonts on many of them are so bad. Either they are bland or are too small
The Celtics look like they are repping Xbox Honestly, yearly city edition jerseys was a bad idea. They should have a longer gap between them to give more time to be creative
The 2018-19 season was peak. Black Miami Vice, Purple Rain Timberwolves, Chinese Culture Warriors, Native American OKC, there was inspiration and creativity in the designs. Now it's just a font, a slight gradient with a subtle pattern, and a >$100 price tag.
The initial Nike city jerseys had callbacks to the cities the teams played in. The Timberwolves had one that commemorated Prince, the Lakers had some inspired by different players all-time greats that played for them, the Hawks had one that commemorated MLK and another for the Georgia peaches, and the Nets had stuff that commemorated Biggie. They worked with local artists to actually tell a story of the city the team played for. They stopped putting any of that effort in, which is why the city jerseys got more trash with time.
For sure. Have a reason for your colours like a callback to a colorway from the past, or take the tertiary color from your logo and make that the primary color, or just rep the Raiders/Spurs silver and black. Find a tiny design element in the logo and make it huge. Unfortunately most of these designs are pick a font and type "TEAM".
It's the enshittification of jersey design. We used to be spoiled by the Miami Vice jerseys, now we got this garish fire truck red HEAT CULTURE nonsense.
It's just Nike in general being Ass. The vast majority of their Football (Soccer) jerseys are absolutely garbage as well. I'm already dreading the fact Germany dropped Adidas for Nike cause they offered more cash.
celtics fan here - you’re not biased they just suck. I have no idea why this organization is so obsessed with “maintaining tradition” that they decide to just wear a worse version of their normal jerseys every year
@@latterdaycreature it's the fortieth anniversary of moving to Sacramento and the thirtieth anniversary of switching to purple and black. A beam-themed jersey seems like the easiest layup on earth.
the subtle nod to the voodoo roots roots in louisiana are kinda dope definitely my favorite jerseys i hope they stick to that theme for a few more years
if the cavs one didn't say "the land" on the front i would've thought it was a pistons jersey with a vinyl record/motown theme. I still can't believe the pistons and now the tigers run the motor city/car theme into the ground with tire marks on a bunch of their alternates but none of them have ever done a motown alternate.
Ok maybe this has a simple answer, but why *do* some of these jerseys have such little color? Like sure not everything has to be super saturated, but Orlando’s just being devoid of any… forgive the pun but it doesn’t feel very magical at all.
I LOVE the Memphis City jerseys. They are the retro ABA Sounds 70s era throwback jerseys that Vince Carter, Zbo, etc wore in 2016, everywhere they played they got rave reviews. 🔥🔥🔥
They said the Bucks can’t use the fan favorite Cream City colors anymore because it messes with on-court advertisements. I guess nobody is buying ad space in Detroit 😂
Even though there's a handful of good city jerseys each year, I think it's time for Nike to switch the theme entirely. Those mixtape jerseys from a few years ago were a great change of pace, and the fans seemed to love them too. Some kind of shift would hopefully result in some more inspired designs, much like the early city editions.
Why would the NBA put their budget into creative design? Then Adam Silver wouldn’t be able to pay Jalen Brunson under the table so he can force his Knicks into relevancy
The Kings jersey is just a throwback jersey that doesn't connect to the city of Sacramento. The design is fine but I don't feel any connection to Sactown.
I remember during the sleeved era a Celtics had these Gray jerseys with the sort of parquet design. wasn't crazy about sleeves at the time but I thought it was a cool color and design but everyone hated them besides me.
If I see people complain about NBA jerseys, I always laugh. These US leagues are nowhere near as bad as European football in terms of overkill in new, shitty jerseys by the same companies being released on a yearly basis with designs going from bad to worse. Especially this same Nike company is bad. New yearly away jerseys, third jerseys teams never use other than the one match for marketing reasons, every set being accompanied by a new keepers jersey. National teams getting the same recycle process every two years with them not even trying to be difference. All countries just get the same standard design with the only difference being the colours. Currently there is this thing to have teams have away jerseys that are public transport seat designs from the 1980s and 1990s. If it wasn't for a bunch of clubs having legally required standardised designs for their home shirts (like a constitution, but then for individual private entities instead a country), it would have been even worse. And even those often get yearly tweaks. Clubs which just have a rule about needing to play in the same colours with no standard design still get their yearly changes. Main team shirt sponsors forcing their own regular changes as well. Outside the unique home shirt designs for teams that require said design, designs aren't even original anymore across the board and bland on top of that. Which is no surprise if the design teams of a company like Nike just have a yearly quota to fulfill and aren't allowed to go creative, because god forbids it creates controversy one way or another.
I’m finding it difficult to put into words just how offensive that Celtics jersey is. The premier basketball league in the world is going to make their reigning champions dress like a pee wee league team. The winningest franchise in league history is going to wear that. Just do the classic green and white, but add a gold trim like Adidas did when they won the chip in 2008. Hell, this would have even been the perfect season to bring back that weird ‘banner’ jersey from a couple years back. The lack of oversight from the league and the teams re: Nike’s design choices is affecting the league’s bottom line in a way I don’t think they understand. They could be doing so, so much more to move jerseys if the designs weren’t so tasteless.
Nike always makes sports jerseys worse. Why we cannot have all the vast amount of NBA jerseys we had in the mid-2010’s is upsetting. I miss teams having a dozen jerseys, which was so fun! Now many of the alternates and city jerseys we get are ugly, and we often lack classic jerseys.
The Spurs one is literally just last years jersey except instead of it being white they put thag blue/green and it’s terrible. I don’t think they’re even keeping the iceman jersey’s which is a shame😔
The NBA should actually follow the MLB’s lead and have 8-12 teams release a special city jersey each year. And maybe let a classic looking team like the Celtics refrain from having a city jersey like the Yankees have so far.
Hot take I think after every season the defending champion should wear white and gold because it’s hard to fuck up. After three seasons each champion has something stupid with black like why?
The minimalist designs would be fine if they werent mixing in random ugly intricate designs. Like why is the Cavs logo like that? Why do the Celtics have a generic 2k side design?
When i saw the leaks, i was praying that they were fake. I couldnt believe that the official ones would be so boring and ugly. But i guess i overestimated nike.
You think it's bad? Check out some of the designs found for some top flight soccer clubs in Europe 😂. It's all the more baffling that they charge £80 for these things
I was dissapointed i couldnt see the pistons city jersey in the thumbnail and had to look it up. Only to then realize that IT IS in the thumbnail, its just so trash you cant even tell its a pistons jersey at first glance.
Hawks: 6.5 - no team colour is always bad, but they did a good job. Celtics: 4 - plain, too plain. Nets: 5 - good concept, bad execution. Hornets: 7.0 - really good colour, maybe if they were bolder... Bulls: 2.5 - no colour of the team, bland, no logos, trash. Cleveland: 3.5 - no team colour, rather it did more and not use nonsense colour. Mavericks: 2.0 - lazy, no colour. Nuggets: 8.0 - Kofie is just plain wrong, the wrongest he's ever been in his life. 5280 literally symbolises the city. They found a way to make the white interesting with the side colour. Pistons: 7.0 - looks retro somehow, really cool. Golden State: 5.5 - looks like a nuggets jersey. They should just use golden state colours. Houston: 5.0 - Lazy, but ok. Pacers: 7.5 - bold, has team colour, nice font, I'd buy this. Clippers: 7.5 - it looks good, while I dislike the colour, it has team symbols and colours. Lakers: 4.0 - looks like crap, nice colours tho. Heat: 4.5 - it's ok, but slightly ugly. Memphis: 3.5 - trash, nothing to do with the team. Bucks: 3.0 - trash, nothing to do with the team. Minnesota: 5.5 - ok, I'd rather they fid more. Nola: 4.5 - disagree with all kofie recommendations tho. Don't give a fuck about the text they'll throw afterwards too. Knicks: 7.0 - the double font was almost cool. Thunder: 6.0 - it's bold and ok. Magic: 8.5 - this is the only way to remove colour. And it looks good. Kofie is right about this one. Shame he doesn't apply the criticism of this one to all. Sixers: 5.0 Phoenix: 5.5 - hate blatant awful looking asymmetric star. Portland: 6.5 - it's ok, looks generic tho. Kings: 7.5 Spurs: 2.5 Raptors: 5.5 - why black, it's dumb. Utah: 8.5 Wizards: 6.0
The obsession with minimilism and "looking clean" have killed jersyes and branding as a whole.
They aren't clean. Just boring lol
the aesthetics of the nba have been ruined for years now man, not a lot of good uniforms out there
@@amersalaka1764i miss the 90s and early 2000 eras of jersey design
No I don’t think minimalism is what killed jerseys, a lot of beloved jerseys you could call minimalist like the show time lakers jerseys. A lot of beloved jerseys that stood the test of time are not that detailed
The problem to me is the fonts, the fonts on many of them are so bad. Either they are bland or are too small
@@welcometowallys8158 minimalism with a purpose and just doing it for the sake of it are different.
The Celtics look like they are repping Xbox
Honestly, yearly city edition jerseys was a bad idea. They should have a longer gap between them to give more time to be creative
Or university of Oregon
It’s an especially bad idea when all the design choices are made 2 years in advance to allow for production
My beloved Celtics got done sooooo dirty. Smh.
it looks like a cheap knockoff of the Timberwolves 22-23 statement jerseys
These City Jerseys Have Gotten Worse And Worse Over The Years Not Gonna Lie
Nailed it. Nike basketball has design fatigue. Someone at the top won’t let anything wild through anymore so people are coming up with safe ideas.
The 2018-19 season was peak. Black Miami Vice, Purple Rain Timberwolves, Chinese Culture Warriors, Native American OKC, there was inspiration and creativity in the designs. Now it's just a font, a slight gradient with a subtle pattern, and a >$100 price tag.
@@knightdehumidifierNike is just not trying anymore
@SomeChink when they got no competition, don't expect there to be any effort when they know people will huy it regardless of quality.
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Man just give it back to adidas Jesus Christ. This minimalist era is ridiculous. Let teams be themselves!
The initial Nike city jerseys had callbacks to the cities the teams played in. The Timberwolves had one that commemorated Prince, the Lakers had some inspired by different players all-time greats that played for them, the Hawks had one that commemorated MLK and another for the Georgia peaches, and the Nets had stuff that commemorated Biggie. They worked with local artists to actually tell a story of the city the team played for. They stopped putting any of that effort in, which is why the city jerseys got more trash with time.
For sure. Have a reason for your colours like a callback to a colorway from the past, or take the tertiary color from your logo and make that the primary color, or just rep the Raiders/Spurs silver and black. Find a tiny design element in the logo and make it huge. Unfortunately most of these designs are pick a font and type "TEAM".
you were way too generous in this video tbh.
It's the enshittification of jersey design. We used to be spoiled by the Miami Vice jerseys, now we got this garish fire truck red HEAT CULTURE nonsense.
The black Vice jerseys, sure. The pink and blue…ehhhhh
It’s insane how bad nike botched SO many of their city connects across sports. Most of the MLB ones are trash too
I hate the Tigers one
I thought most of the mlbs were good. Though they're changing them now so I expect them to be crap like the nbas now
they started nice for the most part but they’ve been getting more cookie-cutter every year
@sullyproductions5757 try the dodgers ones
Remember the early City jerseys? How bold and creative those were? What happened??
Nike will pay for ruining NBA jerseys
Celtics actually makes me so sad “you just won it all so here’s a Gatorade bottle”
It's just Nike in general being Ass. The vast majority of their Football (Soccer) jerseys are absolutely garbage as well. I'm already dreading the fact Germany dropped Adidas for Nike cause they offered more cash.
Their baseball stuff sucks too
Ali express vibes big time
celtics fan here - you’re not biased they just suck. I have no idea why this organization is so obsessed with “maintaining tradition” that they decide to just wear a worse version of their normal jerseys every year
Magic is the best, so clean.
The spurs and Knicks ones look like they’ve been made specifically for Wemby and Brunson
I like them both too
The nuggets jersey looks like a “sudoku” once the numbers are added to the 5280
Nike needs to stop this bs in basketball and baseball
I miss the Miami Vice jerseys they will always be top tier
The Houston jerseys look like Create-A-Team jerseys from 2K6
I don't they the designers are playing it safe. I think they've simply run out of ideas.
That was fun, I enjoyed going through these with you
The Kings one is so frustrating. Just give us purple instead of endless Royals throwbacks!
This so much. Tired of the Royals' red and blue when we've been purple for a while now.
@@latterdaycreature it's the fortieth anniversary of moving to Sacramento and the thirtieth anniversary of switching to purple and black.
A beam-themed jersey seems like the easiest layup on earth.
Employee: Boss, we did it, we found a way to make the jerseys look worse this year!
Boss: Splendid! *rubs hands together
Im sick of turning on games and having no idea which two teams are playing
Hate how Nike made my wolves look like a water cooler company two years in a row man…
i didnt know you had your own channel til today needless to say im gonna be here for the rest of the day lol
the subtle nod to the voodoo roots roots in louisiana are kinda dope definitely my favorite jerseys i hope they stick to that theme for a few more years
The Celtics Jersey looks like a practice jersey to me
D rose retired today, i saw someone say that his career high of 50 points meant more than KD's rings 😅😅😅😅
love when you do jersey/uniforms content
These look like knockoffs one would buy at dollar general
😂What's wrong with TJ Maxx and Ross?
Adding all these alternate jerseys are ruining brand recognition. Nike added these to baseball and they stink too
The Denver one is prove it the worst out of all of these, I get the meaning but the “5280” just doesn’t look good on a jersey
2:20 Charlotte’s a jersey you wear to church
if the cavs one didn't say "the land" on the front i would've thought it was a pistons jersey with a vinyl record/motown theme. I still can't believe the pistons and now the tigers run the motor city/car theme into the ground with tire marks on a bunch of their alternates but none of them have ever done a motown alternate.
The celtics one is soooooo bad and I say that as a fan
As a Celtics fan, I 100% agree on the plain-ness of the city jersey. We needed Pete Rogers on that
Ok maybe this has a simple answer, but why *do* some of these jerseys have such little color? Like sure not everything has to be super saturated, but Orlando’s just being devoid of any… forgive the pun but it doesn’t feel very magical at all.
I LOVE the Memphis City jerseys. They are the retro ABA Sounds 70s era throwback jerseys that Vince Carter, Zbo, etc wore in 2016, everywhere they played they got rave reviews. 🔥🔥🔥
They said the Bucks can’t use the fan favorite Cream City colors anymore because it messes with on-court advertisements. I guess nobody is buying ad space in Detroit 😂
Which sucks because the cream jerseys looked amazing
Even though there's a handful of good city jerseys each year, I think it's time for Nike to switch the theme entirely. Those mixtape jerseys from a few years ago were a great change of pace, and the fans seemed to love them too. Some kind of shift would hopefully result in some more inspired designs, much like the early city editions.
Why would the NBA put their budget into creative design? Then Adam Silver wouldn’t be able to pay Jalen Brunson under the table so he can force his Knicks into relevancy
The Kings jersey is just a throwback jersey that doesn't connect to the city of Sacramento. The design is fine but I don't feel any connection to Sactown.
Is the red on the Warriors jersey supposed to be the Golden gate bridge? Bc if not missed opportunity
I remember during the sleeved era a Celtics had these Gray jerseys with the sort of parquet design. wasn't crazy about sleeves at the time but I thought it was a cool color and design but everyone hated them besides me.
The city jerseys suck but the classic jerseys that some teams are wearing are 🔥
It’s been abundantly clear that Nike is totally out of ideas for city edition jerseys.
These are essentially the law of diminishing returns in the form of sports fan wear
12:06 If you showed that to a non NBA fan they'd say "Oh the San Antonio Nike's" and I couldn't blame them.
I don't think you mentioned it in the video, but a good number of these are old city jersey styles just in different colorways.
That bulls jersey looked liked a mavs one back when they still got brunson and tingus pingus smh
Bring back Adidas lowkey
The raptors one is cool. It's honoring Vince because he pretty much made the raptors relevant. The Grizzlies one is cool too
As a baseball fan, I was disappointed when Nike got the contract- I knew city connects and countless uniforms were going to be created
Aye u from Detroit bro nice I’m still sick the Pistons beat my Thunder when I went to watch em at LCA. Detroit and OKC city jerseys are okay
It’s not a rain, it’s a topographic map. Btw
That Celtics jersey looks like something you'd see at a rec league.
It's Nike's CEO, who's now been ousted. This dude took an interesting concept and drove it into the ground.
If I see people complain about NBA jerseys, I always laugh. These US leagues are nowhere near as bad as European football in terms of overkill in new, shitty jerseys by the same companies being released on a yearly basis with designs going from bad to worse. Especially this same Nike company is bad.
New yearly away jerseys, third jerseys teams never use other than the one match for marketing reasons, every set being accompanied by a new keepers jersey. National teams getting the same recycle process every two years with them not even trying to be difference. All countries just get the same standard design with the only difference being the colours. Currently there is this thing to have teams have away jerseys that are public transport seat designs from the 1980s and 1990s.
If it wasn't for a bunch of clubs having legally required standardised designs for their home shirts (like a constitution, but then for individual private entities instead a country), it would have been even worse. And even those often get yearly tweaks. Clubs which just have a rule about needing to play in the same colours with no standard design still get their yearly changes. Main team shirt sponsors forcing their own regular changes as well.
Outside the unique home shirt designs for teams that require said design, designs aren't even original anymore across the board and bland on top of that. Which is no surprise if the design teams of a company like Nike just have a yearly quota to fulfill and aren't allowed to go creative, because god forbids it creates controversy one way or another.
Jesus christ it's like these jerseys were designed in 2 hours and then the designer just took the rest of the year off 🗿
I feel like we should get city jerseys every 2-3 years so we can grow with them
One of the older spurs logos had teal, pink, and brown it it
What do you mean by not cool people for Utah and that jersey isn’t as good as you’re making it to be.
They all look like practice jerseys
I’m finding it difficult to put into words just how offensive that Celtics jersey is. The premier basketball league in the world is going to make their reigning champions dress like a pee wee league team. The winningest franchise in league history is going to wear that.
Just do the classic green and white, but add a gold trim like Adidas did when they won the chip in 2008. Hell, this would have even been the perfect season to bring back that weird ‘banner’ jersey from a couple years back.
The lack of oversight from the league and the teams re: Nike’s design choices is affecting the league’s bottom line in a way I don’t think they understand. They could be doing so, so much more to move jerseys if the designs weren’t so tasteless.
The Boston ones felt soulless and now I know it's across the board for the most part.
Nike always makes sports jerseys worse. Why we cannot have all the vast amount of NBA jerseys we had in the mid-2010’s is upsetting. I miss teams having a dozen jerseys, which was so fun!
Now many of the alternates and city jerseys we get are ugly, and we often lack classic jerseys.
The htown should’ve a double cup of the Houston wine.
The Spurs one is literally just last years jersey except instead of it being white they put thag blue/green and it’s terrible. I don’t think they’re even keeping the iceman jersey’s which is a shame😔
For Nola hopefully the number has the green pop
The NBA should actually follow the MLB’s lead and have 8-12 teams release a special city jersey each year. And maybe let a classic looking team like the Celtics refrain from having a city jersey like the Yankees have so far.
knicks had the double font last year
Most of these are last years jersey but with the colors swapped out
Kofie, you feel bad about LakeShow, as you should
Nor Jersey nor shoes should come with stories.
Denver going with the 5280 every year is absolutely awful.
My Heat jerseys are so bad you didn't bother to put them in the video 😅
Hot take I think after every season the defending champion should wear white and gold because it’s hard to fuck up. After three seasons each champion has something stupid with black like why?
Half of these are the same one as last years but with different colours
The mashup heat was the most goated and then we came to this bruh😐
I thought these were warmup shirts
The minimalist designs would be fine if they werent mixing in random ugly intricate designs. Like why is the Cavs logo like that? Why do the Celtics have a generic 2k side design?
NBA City jerseys: PREPARE TO DIE EDITION
they all suck oh my god 💀
There are maybe 7 good ones in this batch.
As a Celtics fan, we know haters gonna hate on our franchise, but this time around, please hate, these suck butt 😭
When i saw the leaks, i was praying that they were fake. I couldnt believe that the official ones would be so boring and ugly. But i guess i overestimated nike.
Best are the Raptors
These look like rec league jerseys
semen white always a good color choice for a jersey
Heat jerseys are literally the exact same but a different colour so you couldn’t say anything new 💔 what happened to the game I loved
somehow the Nuggets jerseys got WORSE from last year 😭😩
sports jerseys in general have been going downhill for a few years now. nike and adidas just make templates and let you pick a font and random patern
You think it's bad? Check out some of the designs found for some top flight soccer clubs in Europe 😂. It's all the more baffling that they charge £80 for these things
the fonts are tragic. the Celtics, the T-wolves, the PACERS! just fucking atrocious font choice
I was dissapointed i couldnt see the pistons city jersey in the thumbnail and had to look it up. Only to then realize that IT IS in the thumbnail, its just so trash you cant even tell its a pistons jersey at first glance.
The Utah jersey just looks like a big can of Coors Light.
League been downhill ever since the Hawks put on thay neon yellow
Pelican bones
Hey Jeff Hornacek is cool people
You skipped Miami!
Hawks: 6.5 - no team colour is always bad, but they did a good job.
Celtics: 4 - plain, too plain.
Nets: 5 - good concept, bad execution.
Hornets: 7.0 - really good colour, maybe if they were bolder...
Bulls: 2.5 - no colour of the team, bland, no logos, trash.
Cleveland: 3.5 - no team colour, rather it did more and not use nonsense colour.
Mavericks: 2.0 - lazy, no colour.
Nuggets: 8.0 - Kofie is just plain wrong, the wrongest he's ever been in his life. 5280 literally symbolises the city. They found a way to make the white interesting with the side colour.
Pistons: 7.0 - looks retro somehow, really cool.
Golden State: 5.5 - looks like a nuggets jersey. They should just use golden state colours.
Houston: 5.0 - Lazy, but ok.
Pacers: 7.5 - bold, has team colour, nice font, I'd buy this.
Clippers: 7.5 - it looks good, while I dislike the colour, it has team symbols and colours.
Lakers: 4.0 - looks like crap, nice colours tho.
Heat: 4.5 - it's ok, but slightly ugly.
Memphis: 3.5 - trash, nothing to do with the team.
Bucks: 3.0 - trash, nothing to do with the team.
Minnesota: 5.5 - ok, I'd rather they fid more.
Nola: 4.5 - disagree with all kofie recommendations tho. Don't give a fuck about the text they'll throw afterwards too.
Knicks: 7.0 - the double font was almost cool.
Thunder: 6.0 - it's bold and ok.
Magic: 8.5 - this is the only way to remove colour. And it looks good. Kofie is right about this one. Shame he doesn't apply the criticism of this one to all.
Sixers: 5.0
Phoenix: 5.5 - hate blatant awful looking asymmetric star.
Portland: 6.5 - it's ok, looks generic tho.
Kings: 7.5
Spurs: 2.5
Raptors: 5.5 - why black, it's dumb.
Utah: 8.5
Wizards: 6.0