Some great insight on these logos! http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-definitive-nba-logo-rankings/ Sent from my Baller-Ass 5.5" iPhone 6+......... FAMS
That's awesome! According to that list our logo would be the 2nd seed in the Western Conference Logo Playoffs!
My ranking: #1 - POR (duh!)...although I prefer the old-style. But huge win for being original and getting away with an abstract design. Simply perfect. #2 - BOS - Typically I'd hate this, but legacy and tradition count in sports. #3 - PHI #4 - GSW #5 - LAL - I hate ranking them this high, but much like BOS legacy and continuity count. It's a classic. #6 - ATL #7 - MIL #8 - IND #9 - CHI - Always found it quite boring, but glad they haven't attempted a redesign. I might actually rank it below NYK but will leave it here. #10 - SAN #11 - NYK #12 - PHX #13 - TOR #14 - MEM #15 - CHA - They did a good job with the redesign, but it was made for today...I can't help but think that it won't age well. #16 - WAS - Generic, but not offensive. #17 - DET - See: WAS. #18 - MIA - I tend to appreciate simplicity, but this design is so overrated. #19 - DEN - This marks the beginning of godawful 90s redesign. #20 - HOU - Better than their 90s redesign, and I probably ranked it lower than I should have. Still hate it. #21 - SAC - Maybe this should swap places with DEN, but the pointyness is jarring. #22 - ORL #23 - DAL #24 - BKN - Another non-90s redesign that should probably be lumped in with LAC/OKC, but its simplicity makes it better than everything below it. It's actually better than some above it, but when you consider this was the branding for a "new" NBA team in BKLYN (!) it's a huge fail. #25 - UTH #26 - NOP #27 - CLE - They've always suffered from terrible color selection. The design sucks, but the use of color makes it worse than it should be. #28 - MIN - This is the gold-standard for terrible 90s design. Simply awful. #29 - OKC - Fail. #30 - LAC - The Clips out Thundered the Thunder.
I'll say that the Pinwheel is not only the best logo in the NBA...it's the best logo in pro sports..I like the Hornets logo at the 2 spot and didn't think I'd like it, but I actually like the Pelicans logo ...the one I think is really overrated is Golden States...boring The Nets ...beyond boring!
I gotta agree with this write-up, and disagree strongly with the imbeciles who criticize the Pinwheel. 7. PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS Long live the pinwheel, one of the few purely abstract logos in sports. The 10 swirling stripes, five red and five white, are meant to represent two teams crisscrossing the court in a blur, and dammit if that doesn’t move me at the very core. Breaking news: Design experts almost universally pan it. “It feels so dated, so 1970s,” Fox says. “It has no personality,” O’Grady adds. “It’s very corporate — like something from an airline,” Sakahara piles on. HOW DARE YOU. This is me, plugging my ears and screaming, “Nah-nah, nah-nah, can’t hear you.” Even the Blazers have flirted with a different look; they retained Richardson’s firm several years ago for a rework but ultimately got cold feet about moving away from the pinwheel, Richardson says. STAY STRONG, BLAZERS. This should be higher than no. 7, but the current pinwheel is drowning in a black mass. Set that baby free, Portland. Let it fly and spin. Some folks prefer the old straight up-and-down version, but the slanted edition gets at the sport’s fast pace.
ATL's pacman is sick. Ours is good, but have to reiterate what I said 2yrs ago. The cat has to go. And definitely upright that pinwheel and get rid of the black background.
Yeah, I LOVE the pinwheel, and still love the old lettering, but the overall newer 'logo' with the black mass is not great.
The Hawks, Bucks, and 76ers are the best among the newest logos. I wouldn't mind seeing a change in our logo, but the pinwheel must remain! And possibly create a new secondary logo.
No. You know what we REALLY need is a fat bearded hipster to chainsaw off a ring of a log and then have all the fans ritually touch it. That would be SO UBER COOL!
