Nike just dropped Wemby logo

[Bobbymcgee]

Wemby is an alien from another planet / dimension confirmed?

[Sgt Major]

This is where I'm annoyed with fatso. He could've gotten an amazing logo, marketing, legacy... But he chose an irrelevant Chinese brand because of 2 or 3 million dollars a year more.

Fatso should just sign with Coca-Cola, and ad read his cautionary tale how he was Pepsi addict and they wanted to trade him to free up Nurkic, but then he gave up Pepsi and became one of the greatest players of all time.

For real, I know a guy who's in the sneakers business and he said that his brothers and him were looking for a shoe deal last year. The usual suspects offered around 7 mil per year, but they didn't even want to negotiate about that and then he signed with 361 for like 10 mil per year.

No one gives a **** about 361.

[AddiFB]

Why does it need two Nike logos?

Looks kinda amateurish to me.

[UcanUwill]

Why does it need two Nike logos?

Looks kinda amateurish to me.

Symmetry reasons I imagine. could have integrated that logo better to be honest.

[Woodsanity]

This is where I'm annoyed with fatso. He could've gotten an amazing logo, marketing, legacy... But he chose an irrelevant Chinese brand because of 2 or 3 million dollars a year more.

You can blame Nike for that.

[FrodoFraggins]

I love the logo. Haters be hating.

[phanman]

This is where I'm annoyed with fatso. He could've gotten an amazing logo, marketing, legacy... But he chose an irrelevant Chinese brand because of 2 or 3 million dollars a year more.

Fatso should just sign with Coca-Cola, and ad read his cautionary tale how he was Pepsi addict and they wanted to trade him to free up Nurkic, but then he gave up Pepsi and became one of the greatest players of all time.

For real, I know a guy who's in the sneakers business and he said that his brothers and him were looking for a shoe deal last year. The usual suspects offered around 7 mil per year, but they didn't even want to negotiate about that and then he signed with 361 for like 10 mil per year.

No one gives a **** about 361.

Can you really blame Jokic? He's been with Nike his entire career leading up to this season. and I've seen really nothing marketing wise for him. He doesn't have a signature shoe, his logo is largely irrelevant and he was only 1 of 200+ NBA players vs being the face at 361 for money. His off-court obligations are most likely just limited to just the off-season and I think Jokic will have more success appealing to that Eastern market with a much bigger population than here in North America.

I think the Wemby's logo is cool. It's different and I like the creativity in not trying to incorporate his jersey number with all the other logos out there. Personally, i'd lose the 2 Nike checkmarks or even use one as a the Alien's smile? - but overall its solid man.

[Sgt Major]

Fatso should just sign with Coca-Cola, and ad read his cautionary tale how he was Pepsi addict and they wanted to trade him to free up Nurkic, but then he gave up Pepsi and became one of the greatest players of all time.

For real, I know a guy who's in the sneakers business and he said that his brothers and him were looking for a shoe deal last year. The usual suspects offered around 7 mil per year, but they didn't even want to negotiate about that and then he signed with 361 for like 10 mil per year.

No one gives a **** about 361.

Can you really blame Jokic? He's been with Nike his entire career leading up to this season. and I've seen really nothing marketing wise for him. He doesn't have a signature shoe, his logo is largely irrelevant and he was only 1 of 200+ NBA players vs being the face at 361 for money. His off-court obligations are most likely just limited to just the off-season and I think Jokic will have more success appealing to that Eastern market with a much bigger population than here in North America.

I think the Wemby's logo is cool. It's different and I like the creativity in not trying to incorporate his jersey number with all the other logos out there. Personally, i'd lose the 2 Nike checkmarks or even use one as a the Alien's smile? - but overall its solid man.

I think he only had a personalized shoe that wasn't marketed or sold anywhere, as if he made it himself on Nike.ID

[Roger Murdock]

I think its pretty cool. I think most people would be against branding as an alien because it makes you seem less relatable but owning it and controlling narrative is probably smart

[CS707]

Seems more fitting for Sam Cassell.

I can’t unsee it lol.

[DreamTeam09]

Off topic question. How do you pronounce NIKE?

Forever, everyone around me seemed to say NIke (like PIKE). But now all I hear is Nye-key. I never thought it was Ney-key.

In North America I guess, it would be Ney-key or Ney-keys, unless you're saying Air after it, then we would say Nike(Mike) Airs

[JustBuzzin]

Before I opened this thread I was thinking something with an alien.

They delivered!

I just wish the full logo was a long alien body not just the face. Think jumpman logo instead with an alien body.

[theforumblue]

sort of a spider alien. it's fitting.

[Bornstellar]

Nice. Joe Satriani needs to write Hoopin' With the Alien now

[Wingy]

Terrible

Grabbed that alien straight off of MS Paint clipart and slapped the Nike logo everywhere they could. Most generic thing I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot considering Nike tries to make new NBA jerseys as boring as possible.

Agreed. Pretty lame for such a potentially transcendent player.

Also agree with those that say Sam Cassell already owns the alien. Heck, my grandma (no longer with us) used to call him “the little alien!”

[PD28]

[scrabbarista]

Off topic question. How do you pronounce NIKE?

Forever, everyone around me seemed to say NIke (like PIKE). But now all I hear is Nye-key. I never thought it was Ney-key.

As one guy said already, I think the vast majority of us Americans would say "Nigh-key." You do sometimes hear a Nike like "spike," but I'd consider that slightly odd. That's not to say Americans are "right," per se, though it is an American company.

[scrabbarista]

Off topic question. How do you pronounce NIKE?

Forever, everyone around me seemed to say NIke (like PIKE). But now all I hear is Nye-key. I never thought it was Ney-key.

Nike and Mike not being pronounced the same way was always mind boggling to me when I was learning English in school

English in general is completely wack when it comes to pronunciation, there really is nothing like it at all. Not hard language to learn, but their pronunciation system is something else. Thats why these guys see name BJELICA or AVDIJA, and have no clue how those words make the sound that it does lol. And I know, if you are Spanish, letters C and J also sound different thank most other Euro languages, but I think you can still make sense why BJELICA sounds the way it does, to all of us, Bjelica is pronounced exactly the way it is spelled, but some North Americans thought it was Bee-Jell-lick-ka

Yeah, English spelling is insane.

The mispronunciations of a name like Bjelica is only due to one of two things:

1. Not knowing the rules for how to pronounce that country's letters

2. Stupidity

3. (I'll add one) Not caring/passive-agressive xenophobia

I don't think it really has anything to do with English spelling being so haphazard, though it certainly is.

EDIT: The way you said some pronounce Bjelica is probably exactly how it would be pronounced if it were an American name, so that would almost certainly fall under #1 on my list.

[G R E Y]

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[UcanUwill]

Nike and Mike not being pronounced the same way was always mind boggling to me when I was learning English in school

English in general is completely wack when it comes to pronunciation, there really is nothing like it at all. Not hard language to learn, but their pronunciation system is something else. Thats why these guys see name BJELICA or AVDIJA, and have no clue how those words make the sound that it does lol. And I know, if you are Spanish, letters C and J also sound different thank most other Euro languages, but I think you can still make sense why BJELICA sounds the way it does, to all of us, Bjelica is pronounced exactly the way it is spelled, but some North Americans thought it was Bee-Jell-lick-ka

Yeah, English spelling is insane.

The mispronunciations of a name like Bjelica is only due to one of two things:

1. Not knowing the rules for how to pronounce that country's letters

2. Stupidity

3. (I'll add one) Not caring/passive-agressive xenophobia

I don't think it really has anything to do with English spelling being so haphazard, though it certainly is.

I do not think it is xenophobia or stupidity, if you only speak English, I understand why you would struggle with Bjelica. I do not speak French, and I truly have no clue why Beaubois is spelled the way it is and pronounced the way it is...

That said, American Media is seriously very slow with these Slavic names, I think they are the only ones that after like 20 years, still can not figure out 3 foreign letters. If you listen to Austin Rivers, he still cant pronounce Doncic's name, and that name is not only super easy, the player is easily one of the most dominant NBA players. You would think they would not completely mispronounce a SUperstars name, but nope. After so many decades of good Balkan players, you still can't figure out how to pronounce Doncic's, or Divac's names? It is not in any shape of form hard. If the name is Dimitrijević, I mean it is easy to me, but I can see why Americans could find it hard, but Doncic and Divac literally have two syllables.

Our Lithuanian names probably get butchered far more badly, but I can see why our names are impossible, your names are indeed terrible. We had footballer Tomas Danilevičius, and I remember EA FIFA game announcers had his name recorded in game, but it was so bad, nowhere even close, like if you played that record to any Lithuanian, no one would ever guess they try to pronounced what they are pronouncing.
When Egidijus Mockevičius was in college, I remember one youtuber did those stupid videos where he goes to public and ask them questions, so public would look stupid I guess. And one time he wrote down Egidijus Mockevičius' name, and asked people to try to pronounce it. It was funny, but also sad and unwachable.
In our language, name James or Bryant or O'Neal is spelled completely differently than how it would be pronounced, but Egidijus Mockevičius is spelled exactly how we would pronounce, it is funny, but that is how it goes.

I always found one thing surprising, out of all the Lithuanian guys who ever played in the NBA, Jonas Valančiūnas is the guy whose name is pronounced the best by American Media, like easily. It is not perfect, but it is pretty damn close, if you know, you can pin point how American syllable it differently (wrongly), but it is damn close. Which is strange, because I would not have guessed Valančiūnas would be easy to pronounce. I would imagine Sabonis would be far more easy to pronounce, but they don't pronounce it well. I would not say they pronounce his name wrong, but the accent is huge, everyone says Sa-Bone-nis, or Sa-bow-nis, but it should be hard sa-BAW-nis. O is not pronounced like OH, it is rather a hard AWE.