<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Wen Roberts, who passed away earlier this week, was one of L.A.'s ground-breaking sports photographers. He was the Lakers' team photographer from about the time they moved here from Minneapolis in 1960. He later served in the same capacity for the Kings. Here's the link to the Times' obit. In those early years, as they struggled to fill the Sports Arena, the Lakers weren't that popular. The Rams and the Dodgers had beaten them to the West Coast and to the hearts of L.A. sports fans; the NBA wasn't yet a world-wide marketing empire. John Wooden and his UCLA teams dominated all discussion about hoops in town. Of course, that began to change. Elgin Baylor and Jerry West kept willing the Lakers to the NBA Finals; Chick Hearn's simulcasts -- and his vivid "word pictures" -- helped to forge the team's identity. Meanwhile, Roberts' images, in color and black-and-white, gave visual evidence of the soaring, action-packed sport that would enthrall L.A. sports fans. Full disclosure: I got to know Wen after I began to pitch, on his behalf, a photo-essay of his remarkable celebrity photographs from the L.A. airport in the 1950s and early 1960s: Marlon Brando smirking; Audrey Hepburn with her pet dog; Cassius Clay en route from the 1960 Rome Olympics; Richard Nixon looking awkward. These photos were essentially p.r. shots for the burgeoning airline industry: they made air travel glamorous at a time when people dressed up for the trip and when the airlines treated their customers as, well, human beings. </div> Source: LA Observed http://www.flickr.com/photos/fashionable_male/521529333 This was the original photo of Jerry West, which became the NBA Logo.
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"></div> Those don't really match. If someone here has some photoshop skills, I'd like to see an NBA logo based off that picture.
It's only the head that doesn't match. The logo features both ears, while the original picture only shows 1 of Jerry's ear.
<div class="quote_poster">durvasa Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Those don't really match. If someone here has some photoshop skills, I'd like to see an NBA logo based off that picture.</div> He drew inspiration to design the NBA logo, from the Jerry West photo.
RIP.......classic logo. I know some people want it to change to the Jumpman logo, but that would be a major diss to all the players in the leagues beginning.
RIP although i reckon the jumpman logo would be tight it represents the air part of the game. either that or the justbball logo of the dude dunkin. just kidding NBA would never go for that.
