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[Washington Post] Jerry West doesn’t want to be on the NBA logo anymore

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  1. Os Trigonum

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    this is kind of fun. more at the link, check out some of the proposed updated logos.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...st-doesnt-want-to-be-on-the-nba-logo-anymore/


    Jerry West doesn’t want to be on the NBA logo anymore

    By Des Bieler April 8 at 12:00 AM


    When it comes to sports nicknames, Jerry West may have them all beat — it doesn’t get much cooler than “The Logo.” But the man whose silhouette adorns the NBA’s graphic representation thinks it’s high time someone else was handed the honor.

    “I wish that it had never gotten out that I’m the logo,” the 78-year-old West said on ESPN’s “The Jump” Friday. “I really do. I’ve said it more than once, and it’s flattering if that’s me — and I know it is me — but it is flattering.

    “But to me, I played in a time when they first started to try to market the league. There were five people that they were going to consider, and I didn’t find out about it until the late commissioner [J. Walter Kennedy] told me about it. …

    “Again, it’s flattering. But if I were the NBA, I would be embarrassed about it. I really would.”

    The logo was created in 1969 by a designer and former high school basketball star named Alan Siegel, who told the Los Angeles Times in 2010 that none of the “40 or 50 designs” he showed Kennedy featured anyone other than West. A childhood friend of the legendary sports reporter Dick Schaap, Siegel was allowed access to Sport magazine’s photo archives and found what he wanted in a photo by Wen Roberts.



    “It had a nice flavor to it,” Siegel told the Times, “so I took that picture and we traced it. It was perfect. It was vertical and it had a sense of movement. It was just one of those things that clicked.”

    When asked Friday why he said he was embarrassed, West said, “I don’t know, I don’t like to do anything to call attention to myself, and when people say that, it’s just not who I am, period. If they would want to change it, I wish they would. In many ways, I wish they would.”

    As far as who might replace him, West laughingly said, “[NBA Commissioner] Adam Silver would look great.”

    Previously, West had nominated Michael Jordan to become the silhouette. “He’s been the greatest player I’ve ever seen,” West told the Huffington Post in 2015. “And I’m probably a harsh judge of talent, in the sense that I admire players that are really good defensive players and really good offensive players. … And he made his teams win.”
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    more at the link
     
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    Nba going to put Westbrook on it and it will look like a ninja turtle
     
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    They could put Barkley on it.
    Oh wait, he is already the Michelin Man Logo
     
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    They can merge Harden's beard with Lin's hair.
     
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    "Really bro?"
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    ;)
     
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    Now make it into a silhouette that can replace the old logo. :D
     
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    would nominate dream, but he'd just be a blur due to continuous shaking. drob knows wassup.
     
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    Not very good but whatever. :)
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    That ungrateful....

    No worries.

    We already have a candidate and I have one ready to go.

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    This reminds me of the most recent Bill Simmons podcast with Kevin Durant. Durant was mentioning how the young guys coming into the league were pulling in all the women thinking that they were so smooth, but he just tells them to thank Jerry West, because it is them wearing that logo is the only reason they getting lucky with the ladies.
     
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    Why does he have a tail??
     
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    My first thought as well
     
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    If the NBA did change the logo, what should they change it to? Any ideas, other than Jordan (or Greg Oden's dong)?
     
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    I sense you seek simplicity.

    How about...

    [​IMG]
     
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    Most iconic things I can think of are either LeBron's Tomahawk or Dirk's Fadeaway.
    Or Iverson doing a crossover.
     
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    Does it need to be any particular player? Would a generic silhouette of a player taking a jump shot be too boring?

    The league is too big now. And I don't think what all the NBA represents can be fairly summed up with any single player's signature move.
     
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    Jerry West is a really big Michael Jordan fan and thinks he's the absolute GOAT so it's no surprise that he wants him to be the logo, and when he was interviewed on ESPN next to Kareem, he just threw out a funny choice of the commissioner just so not to disrespect Kareem, but he would choose MJ.

    Problem is that MJ silhouettes are way too associated with NIKE/JORDAN brand. Don't get me wrong, you don't have to use the flight logo, there's plenty of images of MJ just dribbling or jumping, etc. but everything about MJ is too closely associated with NIKE/JORDAN brand.

    I believe if they ever change the logo out of respect for Jerry West not wanting his image as the logo(i hope they never change it), they should just use a random silhouette and never announce who it was based on, just as they should have never let it be known that Jerry was used.

    Is it me or is Jerry West just a little embarrassed because he's white and he feels the NBA logo should be a black man and he probably feels him being white was the only reason he was chosen over Wilt/Russell/Oscar? He kind of might have a point. Would definitely be suspect if it was Bob Cousey or Petit, but Jerry West is one of the GOATS so it holds weight, but there might have been some bias in the selection process.
     
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