This issue has existed with
shorts as far back as I can remember:
The graphics on shorts morph based on the length of the shorts. It makes for an ugly, unrealistic, immersion-breaking aesthetic, particularly when it comes to classic teams wearing shorter shorts. I was really hoping they'd fix this before 2K23 came out with MJ being a huge emphasis, but knew better not to expect it. (Not sure if this is just throwback uni's, as I only play 2K with classic teams, but can't imagine the current day uni's being handled any differently.)
The graphics at the bottom of shorts are in their correct, original form when the shorts type is set to 'short'. Here, I am using the Chicago Bulls shorts as an example...
But once you set the short type to long...the stripes & logo graphics don't remain the correct size & shape; instead, they SCALE to the size of the shorts. So, if you set long shorts to their shortest setting '0', the stripes on the Bulls shorts are inappropriately shrunken to narrow thin lines, while the Bulls logo is shrunken & stretched horizontally.
This is flat wrong. In contrast, notice how the stripes & logo on shorts don't scale based on the length of the shorts in this real life pic, i.e., the stripes/logo remain the same size, regardless:
At setting '5', the stripes & logo are bigger.
And by the time it is at their longest setting '10', the logo is now stretched vertically.
Hoping this will get fixed, one of these years ...........