Hope it turns out well. But not convinced.

So they will make all the jerseys? Mitchell and Ness gone? What a shame! A big name sponsor like Nike or Under Armour would of been great.

Yep.

It's pretty basic apparel but i think it actually looks reasonable.

I was hoping someone would make a topic about this because the interesting part is they’ll be doing the NBL uniforms.

We have three obvious issues with nbl uniforms in the past:

#1 They don’t get most of their gear until start of season or even into it. It’s almost a comedy of incompetence to see them with out of date gear in preseason games - surely an apparel company or the nbl clubs can be organised enough to have stuff ready by October or September. This goes for merchandise too. Have this stuff available before the season begins at least a couple of weeks prior! Sometimes it takes weeks or months into the season!

#2 The sponsor logos or abscence of logos is terrible. Sponsor wise maybe that’s beyond their control if a company wants to bumper sticker it or implement it in a counter intuitive way, but hopefully this provides more flexibility to be able to deliver the sponsor and fans a better integrated design. The less acceptable issue is when there aren’t sponsors and everything else is badly aligned such as the logo. I know it’s a bit of "sponsor here" situation but it honestly looks crap, show potential sponsors what it would be like if there’s a logo, and until you get a sponsor don’t hurt the design alignment.

#3 Uniform designs have been craptacular. This might not be an apparel issue it might be a club by club or nbl one but maybe this will be an incentive not to have such badly designed uniforms.

The clubs and league have been designing the jerseys anyway, so nothing will change on that front.

A quick look at the new partners website is revealing. The address is the same as the NBL HQ.

Therefore there is one of two thing:
1. NBL is producing the apparel in-house; or
2. LK Group have developed another arm and will produce the apparel and take 100% profits

It is not really a partnership with First Ever as the NBL owns (start up) First Ever - with Justin Kestelman as CEO.

Outside of the heritage jerseys, which are always great, NBL uniforms have been unsightly for years. I welcome any change in that. Maybe if the NBL has more control over that it might actually be for the best? I know there were disputes between NBL clubs and M&N about how the uniforms should look, and in the end M&N ended up just agreeing to the plainest possible designs. I understand the 36ers jersey this year was meant to have the Adelaide skyline in the background but that fell through. Little touches like this would make bland jerseys interesting and maybe this will give the league an opportunity to patent its own style.

The jerseys this year were horrible. Each team had the exact same template with a different font and sponsor logos. No symbols, no mascots, no skylines, no alternate stripes or patter.

Doesn't matter who is to blame it needs to never be repeated.

So Adelaide just wanted to copy Perth's design from last season? Adelaide skyline or just a picture of Adelaide oval?

yep, a nice one. It was on our jerseys last year

"So Adelaide just wanted to copy Perth's design from last season? Adelaide skyline or just a picture of Adelaide oval?"

As far as I understand it was going to be the skyline but not jsut the line, but an outline of the actual buildings and stuff, so a feint view of the full city in the background.

"#1. So how do you propose to get all the uniforms on time and EARLY when maybe 2 months notice is needed to produce sad Uniforms and said side hasn't been selected?"

The teams buy jersey blanks and press on names and numbers in-house. Obviously.

The Taipans machine is often left sitting out on the front counter during off-season.