The Washington Wizards have announced that their cherry blossom jerseys will return in the 2026-27 season
why they gotta ai slop it tho.
Because they’re a cheap franchise.
Nike designs our cherry blossom unis. Us being a cheap franchise has nothing to do with our 3rd jerseys perpetually being shit.
Was referring to the use of AI to avoid having to use actual money/effort.
Ted Leonsis kinda sucks
“Kinda” is a massive understatement.
At least his dumbass finally decided to tank instead of competing for the 10th seed every year
How can you tell
The over smoothing of everything because ai removes imperfections and adds blur instead
Blurriness has been a theme in art forever though, especially in digital art. This isn’t a video of real life, it was probably rendered with “imperfections” in mind. Not to mention this is a downloaded video from another website that probably compresses their videos to hell.
actually it does look like AI
Have you ever thought that AI is trained on certain styles in the first place? There’s no definitive distinction that Makes these seem like AI.
Yes because AI is useless if it hasn’t been exposed to these examples. That said, I can absolutely say this is ai because it’s more likely than not that a company is to use ai than to pay someone to do this kinda shot and there’s usually imperfections that can be noticed.
the ai astroturfers are out in full force jesus christ
how can you not
So you don’t really know if this is AI or not
do you own OpenAI stock or something?
They’re not even a publicly traded company
they cant
I must be losing my mind bc it’s literally not?
My only tell is the white petals sitting in place and the weird loop where it goes backwards 3/4s into the video, but those can be something different. I’ve seen videos and images from before gen AI was around being called AI slop, so there’s definitely people that just say it with everything.
The loop is because OP screen recorded it from whatever social media account and then didn’t edit it.
if a human animated those terrible jersey and petal physics they would never work again
It’s literally not
How can you tell?
These should be permanent imo. Best thing the Wizards have done in recent history
They should get rid of red, white and blue jerseys too unless they change their name back to the Bullets.
Red, white and blue Wizards makes zero sense. Like, maybe for alt jerseys during national pride events but they shouldn’t be the standard jersey.
They need a complete rebrand tbh. They’re lacking identity
Crazy they got the nationals, capitols, commanders, and then the fucking wizards to round things off. 250 years of history to choose from and they chose an RPG subclass.
I propose the Washington Generals /s
Nothing more American than bullets tbf the red, white and blue would make a whole lot more sense with a name change
They should keep this and the gold throwbacks and start from the drawing board with the rest.
The point is they bring them out when the flowers bloom in DC. That’s late March into April.
Time to pop the cherry
2026-27? Tf? That’s not for another few ye…
As I said on the Wiz sub, these are fine and one of the better city connects overall. I’m glad they are back.
I just wish on this go around they tweaked it a bit and dialed down the pepto bismol color intensity to something closer to an actual cherry blossom. 🌸
The very mysterious and alluring Cherry Blossom
New jerseys, same team, same results
Actually it’s old jerseys, new team, TBD results but sure bro
“TBD”
That’s the spirit buddy.
The world isn’t ready for feisty wiz fans when they are winning
The Washington Wizards have been absolutely trash since 2019, and they draft horribly. What makes you think next year will be different?
Quite literally every 1st round pick since 2019 (aside from Johnny Davis) has either been solid or incredible (Rui, Avdija, Kispert, Bub, Bilal, Sarr, Kyshawn, Tre Johnson) wtf are you on about?
“They’re terrible at drafting” = “I don’t actually know who is on the Wizards but I know they’re bad, so it must be their draft picks”
I wish people who didn’t follow the team or know what they’re working on didn’t even try to comment on it. There’s a true foundation and direction right now.
Kispert sucks
Yeah but he sucks for yall now that’s not our problem.
He’s aight.
Im genuinely curious, since the new front office what draft pick changes would have magically made them a really good team?
No response of course
They have Anthony Davis and Trae Young.
and they draft horribly
Who are their terrible draft picks in your mind? There’s no blue chip prospect to get super excited about yet but their young guys are fine.
People have been trying to do it for years, but it was the Wizards that finally succeeded in getting Trae Young and AD onto the same team.
draft horribly lmfao why do people who have no idea what they’re talking about feel the need to chime in
Name our bad draft picks besides Johnny Davis who got the FO fired
God forbid some of us have hope
Ight, I clearly have not been keeping up with the league enough, I’ve mostly been focused on the Wolves (my team), Spurs, Pistons, and OKC. I wasn’t aware that Trae and AD were both on the team.
Makes definitive comment that Wiz have drafted horribly without any actual knowledge of who they drafted or any idea of who is on the team.
Peak clueless Redditor behavior right here. 😆
Bro is a Timberwolves fan and thinks it’s impossible for a team to turn it around
So you just talkin out of your ass got it. Also Crazy to see a TWolves fan talking like this when your team wasn’t turbo dogshit until Ant
And the Wizards weren’t? We’ve been good for the past few years, and hopefully we’ll continue to improve
Doubt it
All the DC teams should have one full-time, it’s a cool distinct color theme and they always look good.
Should just rebrand with pink as one of their major team colors and a different mascot.
Maybe that’ll help them get more fans and 50 wins in a season
One of the best jerseys ever made. Should just be a permanent thing at this point.
Tony Tony Chopper would like a word 🤣
This is worth a post
I would rather see the cherry blossoms in DC than the Wizards play this season
Happy peak bloom day
I guess that means the Heat will continue recycling vice next year too? The blue ones (“vice wave”) should be next. My favorite vice jersey to wear during the daytime.
When was the last time they used these?
Why do the wizards normal jerseys suck so much? Who is in charge of the branding?
They gotta grab Rui, Yuki, or Cam Thomas now
I thought they only had these because Rui was on the team
Cherry Blossom festival is a big thing in DC.
Oh I didn’t know that. Is that because of George Washington’s cherry tree story?
Nope we have hundreds of cherry blossom trees gifted to the US by Japan in the early 1900s. Peak bloom is actually literally today: https://www.bloomcam.org/
Oh cool, thanks
I’m not the person you asked, but it goes back to the early 1900s when Japan gifted about 3,000 cherry blossom trees to the US. Peak bloom season is celebrated around this time every year and it brings a lot of tourism to the city. It’s a cool aspect of DC culture and history now.
atleast they’ll look nice while losing by 50
I wish the Wizards would announce that they will not return for the 2026-2027 season.
Kinda mean. We have no beef with you😭
Spurs fans have been unhinged this season lol
always happens when bad teams jump up and havent been tested yet. it’s worse when the teams in question have rich histories (boston, LA, SA) so their fans have high expectations. it’s annoying but it’ll get better when they get knocked out of the playoffs this year. if they don’t, they’ll have a reason to be unhinged lolol
You have beef with the integrity of the game of basketball.
Chill bro. We were like a lottery combination rounding error from landing Wemby. You should be more grateful.
Spurs fans… the peak fandom of being born on third base.