Did Nike Ruin The NBA Jerseys?
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Nostalgia has run rampant in every industry and the NBA is no exception. With the retained interest that fans have for the designs of the past, it begs the question: why did NBA jerseys lose their magic? And is there any way to recapture the excellence of the NBA uniforms of the 1990s and 2000s?
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minimalism killed design
That’s true
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te I disagree, i like minimalism and there is a way to make it better.
@@jmgonzales7701 Agreed, it's an unpopular opinion but I didn't really like those 90's jerseys that everyone raves about like the Raptors and Hawks. Personally, they look like kids jerseys to me.
I definitely miss the 90s look minimalist looks are cool for most things but not everything needs it loud is cool sometimes too
@ThaBadGuy263 people forget the iconic jerseys are more minimalist than maximalist😅. Minimalism works but like anything else it depends on execution.
that’s crazy u dropped this maybe 2 hours before the NBA renewed their contract with nike… good video bro
Im fine with it on one condition. They bring back stitched numbers and give us authentics we can buy with legends numbers id love a nike authentic stitched MJ bulls jersey not a crappy overpriced mitchell and ness.
Nike as a company is dumb af nowadays. Cashgrabs are not bad for a company as long as it comes with creativity. For example: Nike would make a lot of money just by bringing back 90s iconic designs as City editions or Throwback jerseys. Sixers Black jersey from the Iverson era, Jazz's purple mountain jersey, Raptors purple jersey with the raptor or the 00's more stylized jerseys, Hornets Muggsy era jerseys, Warriors or Bucks 00's rebranding era, and many more. When they try to do a throwback they don't go all in and end up giving a shy version of what could otherwise be a great jersey that honours other NBA eras or even ABA era.
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When they drop New Jerseys every year. We don’t have time to fall in love with them.
Sometimes they stray away from the team colors which also confuses people on which teams they are.
Nike been dropping trash for years
Right. Especially the city jersey. Some city jersey hit or miss and when you started to love their city jersey they replace next year and you cant buy them unless go for fakes
Shut up and keep consoooooooming
@@markjayvillamayor4625 The fact Miami has left its Miami Vice visual identity behind is downright criminal
Those mid - late 90s hawks, sonics, pistons, magic and rockets jerseys were my favorite!
90s jerseys were 🔥 and my all-time favorites
- Magic
- Hornets
- Suns
- Vancouver Grizz
Rockets jersey was hard
Suns and Sonics jerseys were my fav, but really all the 90s jerseys were by far the best we've ever had.
Can forget the best of all imo RAPTORS
@@tonylvez nothing screams more 90s NBA than a VC15 Raptors jersey for sure
One thing you said made a lot of sense in regards to modern choices in design, and was a solid point. The 90s designs were a reflection of a shared cultural movement, which is honestly something kids don’t have today. Their influences these days are so spread out that these minimalist designs really are the best way to appeal to them. It sucks, but it’s true.
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Jerseys are so awful nowadays in the NBA. It just doesn't look as cool as it use to. It seems to lack color and design some say it's minimalism I think they change too often. Also going for less flair and color is a disaster the 1980s 1990s and 2000s uniforms were cooler.
Nice use of Sociology 100. However, the basketball team is supposed to be the shared cultural movement.
Exactly this doesn't even make sense the designs are not liked by the newer generation either jersey sales have consistently went down over the past 15 years@inhop2443
Well said. Sad but true. I guess Nike is trying to create a deeper sense of community or culture with the designs but it feels too monetarily driven. Oh, and they’re usually ugly.
I miss the personality of all the old jerseys, it seems like the only nice ones nowadays are the classic redesigns. Great video though
New T-Wolves with the blocks on the Jersey always looked bad to me
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@@ComicXanz I agree, I think they're going to age quite horribly aswell because it's just a byproduct of a business trying to make money in the short term. (Being bland to appeal to everyone)
The most iconic jerseys (bulls, celtics, lakers) weren't afraid to be unique and it's turned those teams into instantly recognisable brands
Even the old original basic jerseys still had personality in fonts and colours that reflected the teams a lot better than todays jerseys in my opinion
@@ComicXanz I get they wanted a Bob Dylan esque design, but man it just did not look good
The 90's Magic pinstripe jerseys where the coolest.
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I still have my authentic Penny Hardaway black pinstripe jersey from 96! It's still just as dope as it was back then.
90s jerseys were 🔥 and my all-time favorites
- Magic
- Hornets
- Suns
- Vancouver Grizz
Bulls black with red pinstripes was top tier
personally preferred the tmac era ones with the stars instead of the pinstripes
Taking away the home and away jerseys piss me off more than anything. I hate it.
This! Now each teams have at least 20 variation of jerseys, yet none of those shown which side playing at home and away. Where is the light vs dark color gone?
@manchesterunitedno7 hate it hate it hate it. The teams have no visual identity anymore.
@manchesterunitedno7 well one look at the court design will tell you who is at home. Or on the tv score board, it's the second team since it's in order of 'away team @ home team'. And also teams usually have their team name on the jersey at home since presumably everybody there already know what city they are presently in, and they have their city name on away games to indicate to viewers which city's team is visiting.
@@maineventkrunch2265 I agree. Plus half the uniforms are not even in the respective teams’ colors, furthering the confusion.
@@manchesterunitedno7 yeah, american sports leagues MUST have a white away jersey or all the millions of people that only have a black & white TV won't be able to tell which team is which. every team having a white jersey is lame and makes the league look poor, almost as if the teams and league can't afford the dye to make 2 jerseys with actual color. make sure the teams wear the white jersey at home because the superior pro athletes are distracted by fans daring to wear their colors to show support
Yes Nike did kill the NBA jerseys. Champion needs to start making NBA jerseys again.
And reebok need to make NFL jerseys
@@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569 I miss those NFL Reebok jerseys.
Also,
Both the NHL and MLB should go back to Reebok and Majestic, and their qualities were top-tier. The NHL Adidas jerseys were good, too.
@@TheRecklessMetalhead facts nike jerseys is so damn cheaply made
@@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569Reebok made great NFL authentics.
@@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569you don't get that they wouldn't make them as they were, nowadays materials has changed, as many of these changes in design and sponsor are not nike Idea but NBA for profit..
Today’s jersey are super lame, it’s not even nostalgia as i wasn’t around for the 90’s either, they just genuinely looked better for the most part. Jerseys used to have team identities and flash to them. I’m a heat fan and can’t stand our garbage heat culture jerseys, Nike messed up big time with the appeal of these.
No creativity whatsoever
I cannot believe that NBA, WNBA and G league resign with Nike smh
one big issue the nba/nike does is not reusing older city jerseys. at some point, its kinda hard to make a city jersey connected to a team's city, history, etc. for example, miami could have easily reused any of the vice city jerseys, but they don't, so they run out of ideas/creativity.
Yea I always hate the part where people talk about prefering 90s era jersey as just being nostalgia. It’s such a lame way to write off an opinion cuz I wasn’t even born in the 90s.
@@dreamcage1801 Most leagues are surprisingly tone deaf about this sort of thing. The NFL keeps signing with EA for their games, NBA with Nike for the jerseys and ABC for their TV coverage, etc.
If they just looked a little harder they'd find what's directly in their face and make a lot more money changing it.
Good video bro. Im a Charlotte Hornets fan and till this day i miss the old Logo and Uniforms.
Those Hawks jerseys in the thumbnail are so aggressively cool looking 😭🔥
The ads and Nike logos just looks tacky as f*ck tbh that’s my only complaint.
Bring back the nba logo
They are trying to soccerize the NBA. The ads, minimal designs and finesse playstyles all are hallmarks of association football and appeal to those markets. That and trying to squeeze the cow for a little more milk.
@scottb3034 same with the MLB and I loathe it
I'm glad some teams go without the sponsor patch.
@@shawklan27 MLB still is holding on a little but right now the NFL is the only league that is rejecting it pretty hard still.
MLB it depends on the franchise.
Ngl i miss the home and away uniforms. The nba looks like a mess when it comes to uniform. Some of these teams uniforms look so generic example the nets
Drives me nuts! Nothing hurts more than seeing a road team in white in places like Boston and NY or LA. It just dont look right.
Raptors OG is the best. It's loud, brash, and demands attention. It also helps Vince Carter was jumping over the goddamn moon when he wore it.
I don't like having the Seoosh and Jumpman logos on NBA jerseys
Why
@@baconeggcheesepodcast9390 nike's way of getting more money
@@rexarthur26that’s the point lol
Nike ruins lots of things... They absolutely nuked baseball jerseys, and own entire universities image and looks to boot.
Stop capping
They ruined the NFL jerseys as well. There's simply no creativity anymore because of their minimalism; the personality from the NFL uniforms in general is gone. Teams need to be allowed to pick their designers like they did in the 1990s. Nike's logo also has no personality. It's just a glorified checkmark. Reebok knew they screwed up with the minimalist delta logo and went back to the vector. Nearly every other athletic wear company has some kind of uniqueness to their logo, uniforms, and other apparel that Nike has lacked for a long time.
@@takatoita nah man the baseball jerseys are dog shit if you look at how they were made in the past compared to this cheap way they’re made by Nike it’s a slap to the face. Nike just cheaply makes it slaps on shitty screen print and dumb designs. When back then those jerseys were made with absolute love and pride to be on a big stage with the nice embroidered names logos and numbers. They also weren’t fucking see through as well showing actual material instead of whatever crap Nike gets there scrap cloth from. I like Nike but they really have fucked a lot of jerseys up
The 90s uniforms for the Timberwolves are some of the best
And simple as hell. Black, Blue, White
90s jerseys were 🔥 and my all-time favorites
- Magic
- Hornets
- Suns
- Vancouver Grizz
i liked the purple bucks as well
Wolves had two 90s uniforms....
@@scottb3034 I'm talking about their first ever uniforms
They need to bring it back to heavy mesh & big numbers/letters & embroidery (90s). A home, road, alternate & occasional true throwback. Simple.
Sponsor patches are also annoying as hell. Makes jerseys look more like soccer ones
Thats a good thing bruh
And its called football not soccer
@@takatoita dude you perfectly understand why I used word soccer (this channel and most of its viewers are from the US lmao). Also the concept of a big a** Feastables, PayPal etc logos being on the jerseys just looks goofy to me after all the years of already goated designs
Yeah I can agree with that
Sorry bro😔
I appreciate your take on this. Yeah, I'm older and I can't make heads or tails out of what is a home or away uniform anymore, but you gave a great explanation of why it is what it is.
The raptors jerseys with the dinosaur was pretty cool
DAMMN ! Bro I miss the old Hardwood Classic jerseys back in the early 90s and mid 2000s
It's funny to see Gen Z call 90s designs beloved now. I remember when people hated those jerseys back in the day and called the Rockets, Raptors or Hawks jerseys "pyjamas" and wanted the return of more classic or plain designs. You would never see rap stars in those jerseys - Bulls, Lakers, Heat, Hornets or Celtics were much more popular and they were extremely traditional. That's how we got the beloved Raptors redesign in 2000, Hawks soon after and Rockets as well (although they changed it to the Chinese design which also wasn't liked but it was considered an improvement nonetheless)
Facts that pistons jersey from the 90s was ugly too we liked the 80s bad boy logo
@@WesJones-h6l I’ll agree with that I didn’t hate the Detroit 90s look but I did love the bad boys look 10x better thought it was simple but very clean
I didn’t get a chance to properly comment on the last video about the WNBA, but wanted to say that I’m really glad RUclips just happened to show one of your videos early in your channel, because each one has been really well done, really well researched, and a great historical documentation of the NBA and WNBA, while also looking to the future of both. It’s fun to look back at this stuff at the age of 30, seeing things documented from way back when my dad introduced me to the game when I was 3.
Anyways, what you’re doing is really damn good and I always look forward to seeing what you do next. 🎉🎉
Also love the music choices too 👀🎉
Adidas/Reebok hands down made the best NBA jerseys. Nike came around and ruined the NBA jerseys with poor quality and quantity. I'm still very angry that, the NBA re-signed with Nike for another 12 years!!! I hope there is a opt-out clause after x amount of years.
I think the best way to bring them back to great uniforms is thru blending together properly. A throwback design with some modern tones to it. Example is Utah: bring back the 90’s look but make the color from the mountains up a purple gradient into black, make the font classic but modernize clean. This makes every part of the jersey pop out
In my city, all these vintage jerseys, like the Raptors ones sell more and people pay more for these particular jerseys
Remember when these new logos dropped
Was the year of the Toronto and Vancouver expansion. The future of the league felt really bright
Im glad this GENERATION can see the importance of TRENDS AND MUSIC and how they influence culture
Starter NFL jackets in the 90's were pretty great in retrospect as well. Especially for somebody who grew up in that era.
Now they ruined the court.
Courts have got out of hand.
Cant help but to think they are distracting as hell to players.
Perhaps not but sure is way too much going on visually for my liking.
Cant stand the boring grey courts or the tacky nba cup courts
I one with their minimalism styles. i do not like them, but whatever. I guess all brands are going with this corpo clean designs, but with what i got a massive issue is with mess up with the colors of the franchises.
Like. Before Nike you can turn on the TV and you instantly knew who were playing and where they were playing. White for local, color for visitors and you can instantly associate which team is from which city with their colors.
Power blue: Denver
Blue and Orange: Knicks
Red on Black: Portland
Black on red: Chicago
Red on Blue: Detroit
Blue and Yellow: Pacers
Purple and Black: Kings
And so much more. You didn't even knew to listen to the broadcast to visually identify which teams were playing the game, but know is goddamn impossible to do that because we teams wearing color that are nowhere near to the colors or identity of the colors.
We got Dallas wearing solid green and not accent green???. Orlando wearing orange and black???? Jazz running a color scheme that is pretty much the old pacers????,Cleaveland using powder blue? Bulls wearing white and other color that isn't red? Those ugly ass SAS blue or green or whatever that color was,, Detroit wearing damn green????. Way too many teams got a black color jersey too.
Is like NIke walk up and just decided to kick the teams on the balls and yell "your pass? your colors? Don't exist. You rebranding all your teams because we want to" and NBA teams are just forced to say "Ok...NBA is the boss we do what they want". Another issue is that they remake jersey WAAAAAAAAAAAAY TO OFTEN giving them no time to stick with the audiences to get a identity with the team and fanbase either. You can't like a jersey because in 8 months they gonna be throwing it into the trash bin.
I prefer the old way
Home: Whites
Away: Color
Alternative Home: White with 3rd color of the team
Alternative Visitor: 2nd color
Then you got the special day jersey like MLK,Green day, Latino week,Christmas and more special days.
Adam Silvers is solo killing this league
Nike continuing to shove black in to the lakers purple uniforms is a sin. The classic purple with yellow stripes was their best look.
I prefer buying retro jerseys or retro designs over anything of the “current day” look.
Having retro designs and players names are timeless. With players moving so often now it’s not worth the investment in current players jerseys
The Raptor, the Bumblebee and honeycomb court, the TWolves and the pine court, the Spurs black pink green colors...
You did an excellent analysis on this. As an old school Hornets fan, I love the old jerseys with the vibrant designs, but I also love the Buzz city ones
I grew up in the era of 90s jerseys and the nostalgia is strong for them. Nike makes too many jerseys. I am fine with minimalist modern Jersey, but why do I need color schemes that make no sense for the team?
City jerseys are basically the jordan fusion version of nba jerseys. Some are ok but most of them are awful.
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Comparison is on point
This was a lot more in depth and insightful than I thought it was gonna be. Well done! It’s tricky because I have nostalgia for the early to mid 2000s branding but I don’t think I’d want teams and brands to just completely go back to that. Those bolder logos and jerseys were a product of their time and I don’t think it would sit quite right to see teams just give up on modernity in favor of nostalgia bait. I will say I love the Charlotte Hornets branding and think they’ve done a great job keeping elements from their older look while also updating and making their brand more current and sleek
Nah Adidas set the tone for the death of NBA jerseys. They killed the creativity Champion sustained in the 90s jerseys. The adidas jerseys looked like military uniforms and were too similar to each other.
Yes especially the warmups. Adidas used the same three-stripe template for every team's warmups.
Good video man! I hadn’t seen this channel before but I dig it.
I don't mind the multiple jerseys. I just don't like new ones every year. I like home, away, an alternate and then a variable jersey that does change every year. For the love of God stop having the Lakers wear gold on the road! That needs to stop TODAY!!!
fr lakers wearing gold on the road and purple at home makes me sick. and the Lakers purple jerseys in the LeBron era have been horrible, every single one. the purple, yellow and black ones with the pinstripes, and the ones they have now that are purple with black number blocks and side stripes. Lakers should wear gold or white at home and purple and gold accents (no black) on the road. I do actually like when Lakers wear black jerseys like the mamba ones, the Hollywood nights or the ones from last year but not when they are the purple ones with black, just the mostly black with gold/purple or both
That's on LeBron, whatever he wants he gets.
@@cjvaye99 The Lakers just need to bring back the Showtime-era home and road uniforms. Gold (not highlighter yellow) at home and purple on the road. Simple, classy, and to the point.
the long baggy shorts in the nba was inspired by michigans fab 5 at the time
Well researched video young man, good stuff 👍🏻
The upholding of the Pistons teal jerseys as this beloved throwback is so funny to me, as a '90s kid who grew up in Michigan. This overwhelming nostalgia and positivity was there when the team brought them back as a throwback a couple years ago, too. It's hard to convey how HATED those were by Pistons fans at the time, to the point where it's kind of swept under the rug how the horsehead was still the primary logo when they won the 2004 title (they were back to the red and blue color scheme by then, which made it more palatable, I suppose).
And it wasn't just the Detroit jerseys getting hate. The '90s' obsession with teal and cartoonish animals was frequently bashed back in the day (not even just NBA...kids who watched the movies may have liked the Mighty Ducks jerseys, but hockey fans were less receptive). If RUclips were around then, there most definitely would have been videos about (then) modern jerseys being a disgrace.
I remember the Houston rockets new jerseys were atrocious!! 😂
Everyone loved the 90’s hornets LJ jersey
@@andresdelportillo9917 Hornets were definitely trendsetters, (I definitely saw a ton of my fellow kids with Hornets merch in '90s Michigan). I definitely didn't mean my comments to be universal...things like the NFL's Panthers and Jags, and the NHL's Sharks also went over decently well. But things like the Vancouver Grizzlies and the "demonic bison head" Buffalo Sabres '90s logos were other "cartoony animals and/or teal" logos that got tons of hate back in the day, and were frequently used as examples of why jersey/logo design was going downhill at the time (and both are now used as positive examples of all the "personality" jerseys used to have). I mean, if people like them, that's great. The switch-up is just funny to me.
I was in elementary school back then (Not in Michigan).
Detroit Pistons (teal horsehead) merch and Charlotte Hornets merch was very popular in and well liked within my peer group. But as i got older I much preferred Detroit's traditional look.
Also the merch with looney toons characters wearing baggy clothes was quite popular, so yeah... it was definately a trend to mix cuteXattitude=money
There's totally a nostalgia young people have for this pretty garish era. Some of these jerseys were good but alot of them we're pretty ugly and clashed
Leandro Barbosa already looks like he plays soccer, but those sleeved jerseys REALLY confirmed my theory 😂
The specific jersey you are wearing on this video, is in my opinion, the prettiest jersey ever. Definitely my favorite.
i believe the Jazz had a rebrand in two step - first temporary minimalist jerseys so they have time to refine the purple/retro jerseys. I remember the agency that worked on it shared the purple jersey when the new brand was launched
All i know is somebody fucked up dem falcon jerseys smh
Hey! Thank you for the video. Really enjoyed it 👍🏻
(Just an note, the white association edition ones replaced home and icon edition replaced away jerseys, probably a tiny mistake 😊👍🏻)
I’m an 80’s/90’s guy so my childhood was in the mid 90’s and I really miss those times when NBA had 1 home, 1 away and max the third alternate jersey(s)
And I’m probably one of the very few people who really misses the all-star games when players wore their team jerseys not all-star uniforms. That way they really represented their teams. Hate that it’s gone
Keep up the work man, great stuff
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Yes they did. Big time.
The baggy jersey/shorts were popularized by Michigan's Fab5 around 1993 or 94. Nike had NikeFit material in 1998, then rebranded to DriFit in 2000. The release of numerous new jerseys every season is from european soccer, who have done that for a while now.
4:08 R.I.P. KOBE.
i actually miss the home vs away jerseys. It was always so easy to understand who was the home and away team.
Same here.
Excellent video, good job sharing all viewpoints and the international aspect. I do hate the over saturation of designs tho. Definitely makes todays crop less iconic and more like product placement than an actual uniform that stands for something
As a kid in the 80s, i love collecting NBA jerseys. I stop collecting as soon as those 90s abominations came about.
I was a kid when those cartoonish jerseys came out. We hated them. Still do. They looked like rejected Adult Swim show logos.
Yeah I never liked them either, in the '90s or now.
Simple answer...yes
nba's biggest mistake of accessing more money than they currently making is that they should recognize and keep things that fans love such as loose jersey court designs trendy celebrations etc etc
but these jersey and the preseason court must stay in the nba it makes the games looks cooler and is more watchable even to non basketball fans
Bro this dude knows everything about NBA history
Sandknit. Starter. Champion.
Greatness
Don Allison and Wilson also
I only really started learning about basketball recently and this answered a lot of questions I had about all the different designs I'd seen when I went to all the team's wikipedia pages. Really informative and well done. Now if only they put this much time and effort into any other kind of NBA merch, cause I've looked through their store and it is dire. I will give props to that one Lakers jacket though that for some reason used the Rat Fink art style.
those teal pistons jersey and that logo was great and much better than their boring logo now. i essentially like the hybrid horse logo with the current red, blue and white color scheme from like 2002 or 2003
ironically nike has killed everything we grew
They always try to reinvent the wheel. Some things don't need to be improved
Great topic and a very original topic.. at least for me as I have never heard anyone discuss this topic before. Great job. And thanks for speaking proper English.
Nike always ruin jerseys in every sports.
minimalism is laziness
Adidas and Reebok jersey were the best nike just charge high price for ok quality.
Insanely good video. Great context and storytelling!
Great video! Not nearly enough talk about nba jersey's
The thing I hate the most is when the home team doesn’t wear the traditional white jerseys, and when teams wear colors that are completely not their team colors (like the yellow Jazz jerseys). It feels wrong to see an away team wearing white and it can be confusing at times. Nike really overcomplicated it. Great vid!
Way to go brother! More content like this
*late 90's jerseys were perfect* 👌
❤❤ great script!! Good luck
I hope u make it big bro I see the effort you put in
My issue with a lot of the teams using minimalist designs are that several of them went to using retro based logos, but they made the colors dull along with simplifying the designs. The cavs coulda easily just went back with the original "wine and gold" design they used for Lebrons rookie year, which had FIRE navy alternates. Or back to the baby blue/black/orange. The nuggets are mixing throwback colors (royal blue, yellow) with the 00s colors (navy, red) while using the rainbow city design. The nets introduced alternates based on the Dr J jerseys but with the bland black and white color scheme instead of just going back to those NY Nets designs but using the NJ colorway (red, navy, gray). What was the point of the raptors just switching their colors to black and red? why get rid of the purple? Even the 6ers went back to a retro based jersey design/colorway. A lot of the teams would do well with just using a slightly modernized retro logo/design and not being scared of having 3-5 colors in the palette. Does anyone remember when the Heat had yellow alternates and instead of adding any other of the teams colors to it, they just made them yellow and black, which made them look like Pacers jerseys? Thats the dumb shit that annoys me.
The 75th anniversary city jerseys were some of the best jerseys and I wish some of the teams would just do like the Suns and keep using the same jersey where the design was slightly altered for like 3 years. Most of the city jerseys are uninspired. I remember having a nike rewind jersey and that line used throwback uniforms with the modern colors. That would be way more interesting than what they're doing now.
They also need to stop trying to get rid of the idea of the home/away jerseys. Its so dumb watching a home team wear their away jersey and the away team wearing their home. If it aint broke, dont fix it!
Nike taking a page from world football by releasing new shirts every year
Yes, they have ruined them :(
Why
@@baconeggcheesepodcast9390basic design and cheap material
A big pet peeve of mine with the Nike jerseys is how teams wear their alternates jerseys in the playoffs. I feel like the games feel so much bigger when they just wear their regular home and away uniforms.
Pretty sure in the nike era, only GS and Boston played their last game in the correct home and away jerseys. Before that, it was GS vs Cle in 2015.
That's on the league
Yeah, playoffs and Finals should be restricted to regular home and road uniforms only.
I just want them to take off the ads from the jerseys ASAP
What the point to have Magic in Orange, Blazers and Suns in Turquoise, Celtics in Black, Woves in Purple or Bulls in Green. No identify. The pinacle was the practice lookalike Yellow Jazz uniform
Orlando's orange jerseys were made because Florida is known for oranges. IIRC, Minny's purple jerseys are a tribute to Prince. Celtics have black jerseys bc they needed an alternate, and when did Chicago last wear green? I only remember them wearing it for St Patrick's day.
@TheChosenMoose01 Plus the County Orlando is in called Orange County
@julienansay2979 I agree with you. Nike needs to stick to the teams' official colors.
11:15 revisionist history. People didn’t like a lot of the 90’s jerseys. Trends are cyclical. Flashy>miminal>flashy>minimal
Nah Nike, I’m cool with my M&N swingman style like y’all used to make.
Old school was the dopest.
Late 90s Sonics jerseys were a perfect balance of locally relevant colors forest green, magma red, and gold, with the previous retro skyline replaced to a simpler focus on just the Space Needle which also stood in for the letter "i", and a ball orbiting around it. Also, the Space Needle was also originally painted those 3 colors during the World's Fair before they later repainted and toned the building colors down.
Those jerseys were both somehow chill AND loud simultaneously; eye-catching yet uncluttered.
Jersey fatigue that's exactly what happend. When you create a jersey it has to mark an era off that time. Good or bad.
Hey young man, this was a great video. Keep it up, very enjoyable.
I remember not liking the Raptors or Grizzlies unis when they came out because they were too cartoonish. I really like em now. Nikes new looks though, no thanks. The colorways are often unrelated to the team and the quality looks super cheap. The ads are awful too. It’s too much too often.
I grew up watching the nba in the 90s, and the designs from that era are still unmatched
I Miss warmups especially in the 80's when each team had a unique design.
Me too.
I prefer simple, classic designs in athletic uniforms actually. I wish the NFL would drop all the “swooshy” logos and go back to classic designs as well.
As a jersey collector i gotta say this is probably one of the best videos out there. Great job though
they have to drop the city jerseys and just go back to Home, Away, & Alternate jersey (then a throwback from time to time) format
Problem happened sometime between 1998-2004. There were multiple jersey makers for different teams. Champion, Nike, Starter, Reebok etc., which all had different cuts and fits. Until 98 when Nike became the only one. Then in 04 became Reebok. Then in 09 adidas. Something like that. Since then all jerseys have the same cut and style.
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the league should not be ruled over by one sole supplier. Adidas, nike, champion, NB, etc. This would breed competition and produce great designs. MLS/Adidas suffers with a jersey issue as well.
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The best NBA uniforms were from the '70s and '80s. The league needs to return to each team having one home uniform (white, with the exception of gold for the Lakers), one road uniform, and allowing each team to have either one home alternate or one road alternate in their team colors only. Also, no more road uniforms at home and no alternates in the postseason. And no more team or city nicknames on the jerseys, like Rip City or Lake Show. Those can be made only for the fans; just not for the teams.
Cool video, by the way.
Very good video. Very clear, concise and most of all... kept my interest. Earned a subscribe.