"Jackson Five" White Tee | Extra Large

Phil Jackson coached the Chicago Bulls to six championships between 1991 and 1998, and licensed merchandise producers found an unusually clever way to commemorate his fifth title — a Sports Saturday newspaper-style graphic titled "The Jackson Five," riffing on the Motown group's name to celebrate Jackson's five championships as head coach at the time of printing. A white cotton body carries a full-front newspaper cover treatment, with the "Sports Saturday" masthead set at the top alongside a Chicago Bulls date-block insert, "Winners — and still champions — the Bulls" set as a subhead, "The Jackson Five" running as the primary headline in bold serif type. Sourced from artist Tyrrell Winston's collection, this piece stands as inspiration to his work that consistently examines the layered mythology built around basketball's most photographed figures. The shirt reads as an unusually literary piece of merchandising, a tee that reframes the coach's record through the vocabulary of American popular music and stands as a document of how much cultural real estate the Bulls dynasty occupied outside the arena itself.

Read our interview with Tyrrell Winston here.