Swoooooop city!!!! Yeeeeaaah bruh!!!

Hahaha. This is the actual worst thing I've ever seen in my entire life.

Melbourne and Sydney ones are sick.

Some are pretty shitty

Swoop City because of the magpies

The fact you had to spell that out speaks volumes, Manu. The design doesn't even aid in putting that connection forward.

Are there more magpies in Adelaide than in other cities? I thought Melbourne would've been swoop capital.

haha

"Skycity Breakers"

Oh dear...

Such an uncreative ripped off of the NBA. Just come up with another name, or better yet do retro ones again.

The concept doesn't even appear to have been equally applied across all teams. It's like there was a different brief for some teams than there were for others.

Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney look good and make sense. The same kind of treatment should have been given to the other teams. Adelaide could have had St Peter's Cathedral on the skyline, or a silhouette of Light's Vision or something. Even the legit Adelaide playing kit a couple of seasons ago had a streetmap of Adelaide incorportated in to the design. That fits the brief more than "Swoop City" for mine.

What happened to Illawarra's design, did they forget to submit it?

Illawarra = Steel City- It even says it under the picture!!!

Terrible execution, agree it's just a poor cousin to an NBA/Nike idea

hahahahaha.

Oh Dear.

In fairness, the Melbourne one is actually better than their regular uniform.

"The West"? WTF, it should be Perthworld. FAIL!

Another First Ever fail.

What the actual fuck?

I don't mind some of these, where they actually follow a theme, but Illawarra's and ours are just a generic word with city, and no design.
Brisbane's is a direct ripoff of Golden State's. I guess that's ok.
They could have at least made our logo look loosely related to a magpie, to follow the theme. Otherwise it's just a random word, that no one at any point in history has associated with Adelaide.
Granted, I wouldn't know the first thing about Illawarra as a city, but I guess they have a big steel mill there? Not sure how a boring as hell font and a couple lines is supposed to be interesting.
The ones with the city skyline are pretty nice. Sydney's is the best.
Perth's is super busy, but it's not horrible. Melbourne's is clean and simple.
Nice pandering to the sponsor by New Zealand. It's pretty much a shit replica of Miami's.

These are actually terrible.

Melbourne - looks better than their normal jerseys
Adelaide - Swoop City? ROFL
Brisbane - Took me a while to work out who it was, direct rip off of Golden State's jerseys, how original
Cairns - it works
Illawarra - Gross, how to make something unpleasant look even worse
NZ - My favourite, however direct rip off of Miami Heat
Sydney - make it black and white and call it, as far from purple and yellow as you could go
Perth - WTF? Is that the Indianna Tea Rooms in Cottesloe?

The Adelaide one looks like something you would see in K-Mart for $9.99 on the "Sale" rack.

Absolutely nothing to do with Adelaide as a Club or City unless it is a poor word association of a Crow swooping down but even then it is more likely a Magpie to swoop, not a Crow.

Sydney and Melbourne ones at least have an easy identifiable association with the Bridge and I assume Luna Park.

If the NBL was internationally relevant the Warriors would sue the shit out of that Brisbane outfit.

Looks like LK gave his son something else to do for a job for a while

Hendo, Illawarra isn't a city at all but the region. But yes, there are steelworks at Port Kembla, just beside Wollongong. It's quite visible as part of the coastal/area's skyline. Harbour City makes sense. Never heard of Swoop City, River City, etc. Why wouldn't they do Radelaide or Rads? Smelbs for United, Brisvegas.

If the idea wasn't strong enough, surely you find another way to play it? Like another play on history, or state, or homage to past heroes, or flip the black-out singlets and go white on white, etc.

Brisbane, the River City, is a thing.

Pretty sure I've already seen the Taipans wear this jersey.

Are the images vector? Nothing would surprise me with this mob

Boris Vegas has a "Riverfire" festival. Brisbane River. Fireworks. Get it.

You can sit on Southbank and watch fireworks etc. The highlight used to be F111s doing a “dump n burn”, basically burning fuel while overflying the city and river. Those old birds are all retired now, so it'd be not so great now.

Isaac. I think the steelworks have all shut now. Back in the 90s it was being majorly downsized. Lots of people lost their jobs and identities. Sad really.

Newcastle and Wollongong used to compete in the Dteel City Challenge/Cup or something in the NRL.

I just opened the link. On a small screen, I didn't see the Taipan’s teeth. It looked like a real angry koala, or drop bear.

I just rang jetstar and asked for a ticket to swoop city. They had no idea what i was talking about.

Looks like the NBL got the work experience kid to bust out the Microsoft Paint again. These are embarrassing for the league, they are either a direct rip off of NBA Jerseys (NZ and Brisbane) or just sad. Melbourne gets a pass but only just as the words look like they've been done on WordArt. Sydney's is best and should replace there crap purple ones.

Lets hope this is the Last Ever season of First Ever.

Are Perth using the gay pride flag on their singlets on purpose?

A+ for idea, D- for execution.

Maybe some of the colouring choices were made dependant on who each team is playing in the round?

Inclusiveness definitely. It should be an away jersey though so the team bus can have a big streamer and a drag queen on top.

First Ever clearly has no clue what it is doing. I appreciate that they're trying some stuff out but they keep doing it badly.

I won't be overstepping the mark. Just noticed the rainbow colours and made the comparison. I only added the bus bit to reply to old mate.

Instead of flexing will Wiley now wave his arms in a swooping gesture at opponents?

Wow this is horrible!

I know there are only so many variations on a uniform and the NBA uniforms are very familiar so it can be difficult to get away from that.


Adelaide 'Swoop City' Looks fine
Brisbane ' River City' Golden State Warriors definitely.
Cairns Look good similar to current
Illawarra 'Steel City' Looks fine
Melbourne Looks fine
NZ Breakers Looks OK
Perth 'The West' This one is out there but is not the Gay Rainbow flag. Point of difference I can live with.
Sydney 'Harbour City' Jersey Looks good

"Those old birds are all retired now, so it'd be not so great now."
Yes - one F111 was retired to Adelaide. It's in the Aviation Museum at the Port. Pretty sure it's the only one on regular public display in Oz, now. Well worth a visit.

"I think the steelworks have all shut now."
Bluescope Steel still run a large flat steel production operation at Port Kembla, turning out steel for the domestic Australian market. One of the two furnaces was shut down a few years ago (2011?) when Bluescope decided to focus on the local market. So half the production it used to be but still well over 5 million tonnes per year according to Bluescope Steel's production figures.

"Adelaide is really just a large country town"
Yep and for that I'm thankful. All things considered, I'd rather it was smaller.

"Motor town" might have worked better for Adelaide given the numerous car related events and manufacturing history.

Wine city would also work on a couple of levels.

Adelaide- barrel city??

I actually like them... just because they have similarities with NBA ones doesn't mean it’s not a good initiative.
Anything to continue building hype for the league is good.
Agree they could have been done a little better in some cases but it’s a good

For the future... I know some of these have already been mentioned...

Brisbane - Brisvegas
NZ - City of Sails
Melbourne - Bay City
Cairns - Reef City
Adelaide - Radelaide
Perth - Western Front
Sydney - Harbourtown

Isn't the term 'Brisvegas' used to describe Brisbane as a big country town that resembles nothing of Las Vegas? That its the opposite of entertaining and was referenced in that way, which is in a negative light. At least thats what it was known as before Brisbane grew as a city. However the nickmame has stuck.

It would be like calling Perth 'Dullsville'

Anyway as for the uniforms, I hated them at first but they are starting to look ok after analysing them a bit more. Sydney's is very nice as is Melbourne's. The rest are either OK or terrible.

Not a fan of the concept though. A direct copy of the NBA and reeks of trying to look cool. Should have just kept the heritage round or come up with something unique to the NBL.

If its done the right way (and with original ideas) then this could have worked... but wow the fact they just said "lets copy Miami Heat and the Dubs with theirs) is terrible. Well actually the Breakers are a mix between Orlando & Miami so maybe someone has taken a trip to Florida lately... either way this has been executed so poorly.

Hawks, Cats, Sixers - look terrible (its like they got up to the Hawks jersey and had 5 minutes left to hand it in)
Breakers - looks good, but they should be ashamed for blatantly copying the Heat/Orlando jerseys
United - looks better than current
Sydney - looks good
Brisbane - terrible, as per Breakers comments
Cairns - is this different?

I'm usually not so critical of jerseys. It ought to be hard for pro teams to stuff up designs. There is value in simplicity, in more modern styles, in retro styles, in either cut of singlet, etc. This year's United is the only time in recent memory I have thought "WTF were they thinking"?

Now First Ever does it again.

Adelaide: "Swoop City"? If they are going with iconic symbolism or a nickname of cities, you really need to choose something that someone at some time has used in reference to that city, anywhere or anytime ever in the history of time.

Cairns: So the point is to go with city nicknames or iconic symbols. Let me put on my First Ever thinking hat. Apparently now I know nothing about Cairns, but I remember seeing Cairns represented as "CNS" somewhere before. Done. Thinking hat off. There wasn't an opportunity to reference Cairns as the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef? Something far north related? Is an airport code really the best they could come up with? Outside of that, it's pretty good with the aboriginal art style.

Melbourne: Actually like this one. Even like the fitting symbolism of including the defective Melbourne star wheel as one of the three main landmarks, which was defective and/or out of operation for many years, an ominous reference to First Ever's continuing ability to stuff up what everyone else managed to do well.

Illawarra: Obviously ran out of time on this one.

Breakers: When I think of icons of New Zealand, I think of pink Miami/Vice City-style fonts, like in those 100% Pure Miami nights travel ads that never happened. By the way, I have to ask: they realise that Skycity isn't actually a city in New Zealand, right?

Sydney: Looks great, but why feature so little of the Harbour Bridge? First Ever blatantly copies designs, yet now they are suddenly concerned about copyright?