Normally I'm not as harsh on jerseys as most and think people are too wrapped up in nostalgia but these are ASS bro, oh my goodness. Why don't we have actual team logos anymore? Why is it just a crappy version of the team name or city?
Teams, people, players, states countries, ect and corporations used to take risk in design it turned out goated or dog water. Now everything is simplified and safe let's be real nobody's favorite flavor of ice cream is milk flavored. All the designs are simple soulless passable trash to appeal to the most people to maximize profits but will not to be anybody's favorite. It's not nostalgia it's a documented fact in the fields of history, the economy, art, ect and engineering. It's a choice not to create real new culture, the culture of good design doesn't just exist in the past. It's not that people are nostalgic, it's that people are hungry for art and culture, not that processed imitation culture they feed us now. I'm less worried about a purple 90's raptor jersey and more worried why we don't have sick new Orléans purple, green yellow pelican's jerseys will a cool pelican guy or a thunders jersey with thunderbolt camo and a cool hammer or pacers with tire tracks camo print on it, or kings with alts or roman emperors and Japanese emperors or just anything fun and new.
@@Evan-i4e You're cooking with this one bro. This sounds like a concept I read about years ago called hauntology, coined by Jacques Derrida and expanded on by Mark Fisher
Nah JT already revoked ur championship with all the stuff he did after, this is just icing to the cake at this point. Ur chip came with a serious cost.
Nah bro there's no excuse for this. They have a team of graphic designers with years to make these jerseys. It's in their best interest to make the nba look profitable, fashionable, and respectable. Someone at Nike just doesn't give a shit and its that simple. Jersey sales will die and the nba will take a bigger cut from a company that actually gets jerseys sold.
Don't understand the lack of creativity? Was this Donahoe guy blind ? Did he get rid of the top tier designers in that job cut? I mean what is goin on ... its lazy and unacceptable
These are definitely AI-designed. There's no way an actual designer came up with these. They should do fan contests for city jerseys so the fans are more involved.
Phoenix jersey is a throwback homage to the 95 all star jerseys, those were great, even with "The Valley" on front. Raptors nod to Vince looks nice, too.
the problem is that they make a new jersey or 2 every single season. They’re running out of ideas for new jerseys. Before nike had the NBA license, a teams alts would be used for multiple years, which helped them be more iconic. Think the bulls pinstripes, they were alts that were used for like 5 years
Worst teams should get the worst jerseys and keep them until they make the playoffs. Then you get the playoff jersey edition that you keep until next year when you either make or miss again and get new jersey. If you win you keep the cool jersey until you lose.
the fact that some of the best ones (jazz and raptors) are throwbacks to their old vintage look says alot lmao, i think those two are the best imo, the majority of the other ones look like just the bare minimum in terms of effort, id love it if we can just wear our old vintage throwbacks instead, black magic pinstripes, the old black & red 76ers jersey, vancouver grizzlies etc so many good ones the old heat jerseys with the fire accent over the T are elite
The golden state warriors lotus jersey from a few seasons back would arguably be a top 3 jersey within this years city jerseys, thats how bad these jerseys are.
I struggle to buy the out of ideas reasoning. I feel anyone who has spent time in one of those cities could come up with a list of 10 landmarks, events, themes, or vibes that represent their city as the basis. Each of those ideas could be brought to life in many ways as well. For example, if they wanted to use the Indy 500 for inspiration for a Pacers jersey, they could draw inspiration from the flags, track, event colors, lights, racing stripes, car numbering, etc. And if they don’t want to make their interns feel any form of accomplishment, AI could come up with hundreds too.
i can count the good jerseys in one hand. sucks that my timberwolves have sucky regular jerseys and sucky city edition. hopefully they bring the classics again.
@@donnydogpiss4533 100%. hope they can bring them back or recreate something similar. i hate every single jersey the wolves have currently. last seasons throwbacks were cool though. i hope they bring those back too.
As a Professional Graphic Artist & Designer for almost 3 decades, I can confidently say all of these look amateur-ish...like. The NBA decided to say "hey let's order our jerseys from Temu this year" ..🤦♂️
i feel like they need to take a step back and chill with the abundant number of jerseys. every team should have just 3 jerseys: 1 home, 1 away, and 1 alt one that can either be inspired from the city (like these) or straight up classic ones. i feel like if there's a split between teams getting classic treatments and teams getting a fresh/modern treatment will balance things out. quality over quantity is key
Thunder jersey I initially didn't like it, but I like the fact that they switched it to Oklahoma instead of OKC. Gives it a state identity instead of a city to include everyone.
The city jerseys definitely peaked during the 21/22 season when they made them a mesh of past jerseys to commemorate the 75th anniversary. It's pretty much been ass before and after.
back then I wonder why there's no plain/ no number nba jersey like the europe football jersey at first I thought no one in america only support the team, they support the player first but then I realize the absence of number decrease aura so much
Golden State jersey is absolute trash. They should have just gone with another black and yellow version. And wtf is that font? Like who's designing these bro? That's embarrassing.
Absolutely love the Raptors jersey having it with Vince's jersey doing the "It's Over" dunk Mostly agree, but with a few differences - Like the Kings paying homage to their Cincinnati Royals color scheme so I'd move it to A tier Actually like the bones pattern in the Pelicans jersey and the Magic jersey works for me too so those are B tier Hornets is a little plain to me so it'd be in my C tier
@KyleLowryRaptorsGOAT just feel like some of them didn't stick with the team core and color scheme. The next thing you know the Lakers will be wearing a red city jersey 🤦🏾
This ultra minimalist trend in design makes me so mad. One thing is to streamline a logo, another thing is to send a whole identity to the trash bin.🤦🏻♂️
I dont like the raptors jersey because the logo looks too small. If it were closer to the actual retro jersey I'd like it more. Most of these look awful and uninspired. They need to go back to using throwbacks. Nike used to sell "rewind" jerseys that were throwback designs with the modern team colors. They could even do that and it would be more inspired than this
What gets to me are the quality of the shorts, they feel like paper. You would think with better technology that quality should get better but it's the opposite.
Jazz wanted a black and white uniform, but the NBA denied it because of San Antonio and Brooklyn always having those as primary colors, so they said eff it and the the yellow in
I could see this idea getting a lot of hate but what if each team had their mascot on their jersey as their city jersey? I think it’d be fun for a season
It is a mandate from Nike that the city jersey has to change every season. The only reason you saw the Suns “Valley” city edition jersey for two seasons was because Nike gave them Special permission due to Covid.
The ode to Vince Carter having the Raptor wear #15 and going between the legs like he did after the alley oop from McGrady in the 2000 dunk contest. VinCar-ciraptor
i think the warriors one will look A LOT better with the numbers, but they will still be underwhelming . i’m a lot higher on the spurs, rockets and sixers ones. they will also look better with numbers.
The Raptors jersey that is made to look like Vince Carter’s iconic eastbay dunk is absolutely incredible. So much character I wish my Timberwolves had gone with something better.
How are you going to complain that a lot of teams just reused jersey designs with different colors but then say the Miami vice jerseys were amazing? Idc how good the original concept is/was, stay consistent
The Sixers always make pretty good jerseys and the homage to the spectrum version is a hit! 🔥 I will be buying all the city edition gear…Like I have years past.
They should do some fan submitted contest where they have fans make their own jersey design. Cause there’s got to be better artists in the community than Nike has.
Is this a new meta for every title defending team?? Where after the chip, Nike comes in and shoves a more than terrible city jersey next season so they can mess up the confidence of the title defending team??
I was talking about how good the Celtics city jerseys have been. Besides that stupid 2021 one they've been consistently making some of the best in the league every year. This one is horrible
They need to go back to their throwback jerseys from the 2000s as their city jerseys. Have 3 city jerseys, home, away and alternate. Use the Sixers and Nuggets for example. They can use their black, white and blue jerseys with the gold lettering. Denver can go back to their white, baby blue and yellow jerseys.
I agree with everything on this list. I think the Warriors should’ve gone back to the black jerseys. Heat should’ve went with the White Hot and Back In Black jerseys
Weird to see the tie dye shirt on the nuggets my first reaction was that it was a Whalton tribute but he played for the Blazers. Champion shirts would be cool, kinda like yellow mallot in cycling. The bragging rights would make it worth it.
Celtics’ look like they’re repping Xbox 😂
New Jersey patch idea for them
@@three_cone lol 😂 dude even the awkward stripes cave in like an X
Ben 10 looking ass jerseys bruh...
Repping Monster energy drink😉
Or Mountain Dew Amp
This is why I hope the NBA cuts ties with Nike, but thats very wishful thinking. We need actual team identity back again.
The quality of the jerseys are crap too, they tear like paper towels.
@@wackoutoftune That too. Pathetic.
but bro, do you know how much it would cost them to make those overpriced jersey's if they have to print complicated logos?
@@PvtFlowers They are rich as fuck. If you mean WE would have to pay more, we already pay hella for these swerseys man.
@@dak-o-lanturn yes i was being sarcastic if a jersey is 70 to 200 dollars, they can make them look dope.
Celtics jerseys look closer to a bathing suit than to a jersey 😭
😂😂
Boston Xbox's
I did not join 3 months ago btw
Ben 10 ass jersey
@@johnhurchinso5887 But like he's the baddest kid to ever save the day tho?
Minimalism has ruined NBA jerseys
*things in general
So true
Minimalism has ruined EVERYTHING.
They look like practice jerseys💩
My exact thought lol
This
Specially the heat ones
That's what I said lol
I miss the Knicks city that never sleeps jersey. This one's a lazy version of what we had last year which was already mid.
Normally I'm not as harsh on jerseys as most and think people are too wrapped up in nostalgia but these are ASS bro, oh my goodness.
Why don't we have actual team logos anymore? Why is it just a crappy version of the team name or city?
Bro I was assuming the logos were kept off for copyright or licensing or any logical reason for the leaks
@@DolleyGzzz_09how would they be facing copywriting issues when every logo is owned by the league? Who would sue them? Themselves?
@@reececisneros1622 In reference to the people who leaked the jerseys
Teams, people, players, states countries, ect and corporations used to take risk in design it turned out goated or dog water.
Now everything is simplified and safe let's be real nobody's favorite flavor of ice cream is milk flavored.
All the designs are simple soulless passable trash to appeal to the most people to maximize profits but will not to be anybody's favorite.
It's not nostalgia it's a documented fact in the fields of history, the economy, art, ect and engineering.
It's a choice not to create real new culture, the culture of good design doesn't just exist in the past.
It's not that people are nostalgic, it's that people are hungry for art and culture, not that processed imitation culture they feed us now.
I'm less worried about a purple 90's raptor jersey and more worried why we don't have sick new Orléans purple, green yellow pelican's jerseys will a cool pelican guy or a thunders jersey with thunderbolt camo and a cool hammer or pacers with tire tracks camo print on it, or kings with alts or roman emperors and Japanese emperors or just anything fun and new.
@@Evan-i4e You're cooking with this one bro. This sounds like a concept I read about years ago called hauntology, coined by Jacques Derrida and expanded on by Mark Fisher
adidas needs to go back to making the jerseys bro. nike is so dirt. 😂
It would be dope to see Reebok or starter brand and they would have no problem doing the classic jerseys
Yes I support this comment
Champion 😂
Diadora 🇮🇹
As a celtics fan, they should revoke our championship because of this jersey 😭
Nah JT already revoked ur championship with all the stuff he did after, this is just icing to the cake at this point. Ur chip came with a serious cost.
@@lamp9478 You're goofy lol 🤣
@@lamp9478you’re dumb, all he said was we did it. you bozo
YES finally a sensible celtic fan
Mickey mouse chip anyways. Whole league is ass atm
OKC wearing the Love’s gas station colors 😂
💰
Loves is yellow, red and orange.
The thunder jersey is orange, yellow, black and blue
if that was intentional I actually love that and think it would be nice if more teams come out with jerseys reppin local companies like that
Nah bro there's no excuse for this. They have a team of graphic designers with years to make these jerseys. It's in their best interest to make the nba look profitable, fashionable, and respectable. Someone at Nike just doesn't give a shit and its that simple. Jersey sales will die and the nba will take a bigger cut from a company that actually gets jerseys sold.
Those graphic designers love to sniff their own farts. What interests fans or sells is secondary to them trying to be meta. Or push their "vision"
Don't understand the lack of creativity? Was this Donahoe guy blind ? Did he get rid of the top tier designers in that job cut? I mean what is goin on ... its lazy and unacceptable
Looks like they got the guy that designed those awful Utah jazz jersey’s to design jerseys for every team.
The Jazz let them go, and got better ones. Now that highlighter jersey designer doing it all lol
I like this last jazz jersey from the mid 2000s update
These are definitely AI-designed. There's no way an actual designer came up with these. They should do fan contests for city jerseys so the fans are more involved.
I dunno, I think AI could come up with something better than whatever that is.
I like that idea!
Man I hope u right kuz these are pitiful
@@SirGriefALotbut with a creative human input.
Phoenix jersey is a throwback homage to the 95 all star jerseys, those were great, even with "The Valley" on front. Raptors nod to Vince looks nice, too.
the problem is that they make a new jersey or 2 every single season. They’re running out of ideas for new jerseys. Before nike had the NBA license, a teams alts would be used for multiple years, which helped them be more iconic. Think the bulls pinstripes, they were alts that were used for like 5 years
I feel like if the team has a great city jersey, they should keep it the next season instead of always replacing it
Worst teams should get the worst jerseys and keep them until they make the playoffs. Then you get the playoff jersey edition that you keep until next year when you either make or miss again and get new jersey. If you win you keep the cool jersey until you lose.
whoever was repsonsible for designing the jerseys in the 90s and early 2000s. Bring that person back cause its been downhill ever since.
the celtics jersey looks like a powerpoint presentation
The Miami Vice jerseys NEED TO COME BACK!
I agree
Faaaaaaaaacts!!!!!
the fact that some of the best ones (jazz and raptors) are throwbacks to their old vintage look says alot lmao, i think those two are the best imo, the majority of the other ones look like just the bare minimum in terms of effort, id love it if we can just wear our old vintage throwbacks instead, black magic pinstripes, the old black & red 76ers jersey, vancouver grizzlies etc so many good ones the old heat jerseys with the fire accent over the T are elite
the Suns one is also a throwback from the All-Star game in Phoenix 1995 :D
@@BeerAndJointsAllDay the Magic & Suns jerseys are the best
The raptors jersey is so overrated just because it has the raptor doesn't mean it's the best jersey
Raptors jersey is a play on Vince Carter slam dunk competition dunk . It might be alluding to them retiring Vince's number.
They are retiring his number ❤
The NBA jerseys went down ever since they left adidas. I miss the old ones so bad, something about Nikes jerseys just scream cheap to me
It was even better when there were different brands at the same time and every team had a unique design for their warmups too.
Those jerseys were so trash Cone didn't even say "Real ones say it back" at the end.
😂😂
It seems like we barely get creativity in jerseys in anymore. They rarely ever have any meaning now.
LA having no lakes, Utah having no jazz, Memphis having no grizzlies and so on is a tough starting place
The golden state warriors lotus jersey from a few seasons back would arguably be a top 3 jersey within this years city jerseys, thats how bad these jerseys are.
NBA jerseys look like those practice jerseys you see player working out on
Man and i thought the Raps jersey looks a lil empty and bland but somehow its the best in the group💀
I struggle to buy the out of ideas reasoning. I feel anyone who has spent time in one of those cities could come up with a list of 10 landmarks, events, themes, or vibes that represent their city as the basis. Each of those ideas could be brought to life in many ways as well. For example, if they wanted to use the Indy 500 for inspiration for a Pacers jersey, they could draw inspiration from the flags, track, event colors, lights, racing stripes, car numbering, etc.
And if they don’t want to make their interns feel any form of accomplishment, AI could come up with hundreds too.
Minnesota went from a Unique design to a PS5 design😂
All of us wolves fans shit on this jersey. Last year’s city jersey was so cool, this one looks like it was made by Samsung
WNBA got better jerseys atp
Better courts too.
i can count the good jerseys in one hand.
sucks that my timberwolves have sucky regular jerseys and sucky city edition. hopefully they bring the classics again.
Some of the all time best jerseys are the 90's Timberwolves ones with the trees
@@donnydogpiss4533 100%. hope they can bring them back or recreate something similar. i hate every single jersey the wolves have currently. last seasons throwbacks were cool though. i hope they bring those back too.
The 5280 Nuggets jerseys makes them look like marathon runners to me.
As a Professional Graphic Artist & Designer for almost 3 decades, I can confidently say all of these look amateur-ish...like. The NBA decided to say "hey let's order our jerseys from Temu this year" ..🤦♂️
i feel like they need to take a step back and chill with the abundant number of jerseys. every team should have just 3 jerseys: 1 home, 1 away, and 1 alt one that can either be inspired from the city (like these) or straight up classic ones. i feel like if there's a split between teams getting classic treatments and teams getting a fresh/modern treatment will balance things out. quality over quantity is key
0:00 "Yo what is going on y'all."
Indeed. We're all wondering the same thing. 😢😭
Moral of the story: If you have purple in your team's colour scheme, use it lol
Nike is at an all time low in creativity with not only the Jerseys but their sneakers also lazy designs 🤦🏾♂️
The Raptors Jersey is so hard! That's a perfect mix of new and old school
I've seen AAU jerseys with more effort into their designs.
I fuck with the Golden State one HEAVY. Its homage to the og Jason Richardson Golden state days
Dude the Raps and Jazz are fire
For real, the Vince Carter raptor is going to make me buy one, it look fire
The only good ones imo. All the other teams look bland
Yup they're the only good ones, and they're literally only good because they're throwbacks. The NBA is terrible at designing city jerseys nowadays
Ok but where is the Toronto
They’re fire cus they’re throwbacks
Man the heat used to have the illest jerseys, what’s happening 😔
Nike is what happened. Are they using ai to design these?
Raptors got the hardest one 🔥🔥
Thunder jersey I initially didn't like it, but I like the fact that they switched it to Oklahoma instead of OKC. Gives it a state identity instead of a city to include everyone.
Every year, it’ s uglier and uglier. Looks like the work of an Intern of Wish
The city jerseys definitely peaked during the 21/22 season when they made them a mesh of past jerseys to commemorate the 75th anniversary. It's pretty much been ass before and after.
back then I wonder why there's no plain/ no number nba jersey like the europe football jersey
at first I thought no one in america only support the team, they support the player first
but then I realize the absence of number decrease aura so much
Golden State jersey is absolute trash. They should have just gone with another black and yellow version. And wtf is that font? Like who's designing these bro? That's embarrassing.
Absolutely love the Raptors jersey having it with Vince's jersey doing the "It's Over" dunk
Mostly agree, but with a few differences - Like the Kings paying homage to their Cincinnati Royals color scheme so I'd move it to A tier
Actually like the bones pattern in the Pelicans jersey and the Magic jersey works for me too so those are B tier
Hornets is a little plain to me so it'd be in my C tier
NBA should hire the designers of NCAA to learn how to draw a jersey
What was GS doin 😭😭😭
the thumbnail had me thinking the warriors jersey actually had a trash can on it 🤦🏻♂ 😄
The Celtics really taking notes from biofreeze 😂
They really do need to stop making these. They arent cool anymore
They never was
@@earlbrown1803 from 2017 to about 2020 they were cool. they have fallen off since 2022/2023
@KyleLowryRaptorsGOAT just feel like some of them didn't stick with the team core and color scheme. The next thing you know the Lakers will be wearing a red city jersey 🤦🏾
Cone’s expression in the thumbnail tho 😂😂😂😂
Seriously WTF Nike!! These are abysmal. They look like they were designed in MSPaint.
This ultra minimalist trend in design makes me so mad. One thing is to streamline a logo, another thing is to send a whole identity to the trash bin.🤦🏻♂️
Some of the uniforms look prison issued.
I dont like the raptors jersey because the logo looks too small. If it were closer to the actual retro jersey I'd like it more. Most of these look awful and uninspired. They need to go back to using throwbacks. Nike used to sell "rewind" jerseys that were throwback designs with the modern team colors. They could even do that and it would be more inspired than this
What gets to me are the quality of the shorts, they feel like paper. You would think with better technology that quality should get better but it's the opposite.
Jazz wanted a black and white uniform, but the NBA denied it because of San Antonio and Brooklyn always having those as primary colors, so they said eff it and the the yellow in
I could see this idea getting a lot of hate but what if each team had their mascot on their jersey as their city jersey? I think it’d be fun for a season
NBA should sign adidas back.
It is a mandate from Nike that the city jersey has to change every season. The only reason you saw the Suns “Valley” city edition jersey for two seasons was because Nike gave them
Special permission due to Covid.
They all look like practice jerseys
How can you have Heat culture ? It was my top 3 last season 💀
its a downgrade from the miami vice jerseys
The people yearn for designs to have character again
The ode to Vince Carter having the Raptor wear #15 and going between the legs like he did after the alley oop from McGrady in the 2000 dunk contest. VinCar-ciraptor
Lol as a raps fan I knew right away our jersey would be S-tier. Always is.
The Raptor celebrating vince's dunk is incredible
the thing is when we get good city jerseys we don’t even get to keep them 🤷
Raptors is good, Brooklyn too. Would you all prefer no city jerseys at all? Maybe Adidas should do next years.
The jerseys look like the designers didnt know they had had to make new ones until the last minute
i think the warriors one will look A LOT better with the numbers, but they will still be underwhelming . i’m a lot higher on the spurs, rockets and sixers ones. they will also look better with numbers.
The Raptors jersey that is made to look like Vince Carter’s iconic eastbay dunk is absolutely incredible. So much character I wish my Timberwolves had gone with something better.
BRING BACK THOSE ICONIC JERSEYS OF THE 90'S LIKE ROCKETS, PISTONS, SPURS, GRIZZLES, SIXERS, NETS, SUNS AND MAGIC.
Let’s get Adidas back to NBA uniforms.
How are you going to complain that a lot of teams just reused jersey designs with different colors but then say the Miami vice jerseys were amazing? Idc how good the original concept is/was, stay consistent
The Sixers always make pretty good jerseys and the homage to the spectrum version is a hit! 🔥 I will be buying all the city edition gear…Like I have years past.
They should do some fan submitted contest where they have fans make their own jersey design. Cause there’s got to be better artists in the community than Nike has.
The Raptor on the Raptor's jersey is re creating Vince Carter's iconic dunk - fire jerseys!
Is this a new meta for every title defending team?? Where after the chip, Nike comes in and shoves a more than terrible city jersey next season so they can mess up the confidence of the title defending team??
Celtics “practice jerseys” bruh im dead 😂
I wish they’d do alternates with colors from the teams in their cities. Example: a red and gold Warriors jersey would look so good
I was talking about how good the Celtics city jerseys have been. Besides that stupid 2021 one they've been consistently making some of the best in the league every year. This one is horrible
Clips, Sixers and Hawks are pretty dope, the rest are kinda awful with some being horrendus .
As a Celtics fan I’m disgusted to what I have to watch them wear
As a hornets fan we really just used the 2020 jerseys but instead put Charlotte 🤦♂️
They need to go back to their throwback jerseys from the 2000s as their city jerseys. Have 3 city jerseys, home, away and alternate. Use the Sixers and Nuggets for example. They can use their black, white and blue jerseys with the gold lettering. Denver can go back to their white, baby blue and yellow jerseys.
we hate the jerseys but still have to sit thru ads to see them
These remind me of how awful and boring the Olympic outfits were for the countries.
As a Celtics fan I don’t approve of the jerseys we should get fined every time for wearing those jerseys
It sad 90%of these are just name and of teams
"These ate three of the NBA's most successful franchises..."
No, These are the NBA's two most successful franchises... and the Miami Heat.
I agree with everything on this list. I think the Warriors should’ve gone back to the black jerseys. Heat should’ve went with the White Hot and Back In Black jerseys
For the most part, the jerseys are just different colors or shades from the ones last year. They are running out of ideas.
Weird to see the tie dye shirt on the nuggets my first reaction was that it was a Whalton tribute but he played for the Blazers. Champion shirts would be cool, kinda like yellow mallot in cycling. The bragging rights would make it worth it.
Leave the jerseys in general to the teams and city editions to the fans. Don’t trust a big corporation like Nike to care enough to make good designs.
Love the vids bro respect the grind
Still have yet to see someone notice the stripe looks like the northern border of Wisconsin
Everything Nike does is trash now, these are like create your own 2k jerseys