Do the Blazers have the best logo in the NBA?
by Yawnie on Dec 22, 2008 2:15 PM PST
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Printi was perusing the available gear on NBA.com and it had a list of all the team logos.
considering the blazers have had the pinwheel logo for many, many years, i would consider it to be the best logo in the NBA.
i say this because although i dont know the history of the logo, i know it was present from when the team first played in 1970, and it has stood the test of time while still looking modern to this day.
your thoughts?
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The Design of the Trailblazers’ Logo
Harry Glickman’s cousin, Frank Glickman, of Boston, Massachusetts, designed the original logo, consisting of a straight up and down pinwheel with black on the top and red on the bottom. It’s meaning is simple: a modern graphic interpretation of the game of basketball, five players from one side playing against five players from another.
I like the Bull, Blazer, Knick, and old SA logos...
Hate the Thunder, L*ker, Clipper, and Nets for some reason.
honor rasheed wallace
Hornets were bad, now they cleaned it up a bit
I also don’t like the way Toronto designed the good raptor idea
Dude c'mon
the thunder is by FAR the worst in the history of the league
"Damn the Blazers. Damn them to hell. They are working the rest of the league like a speed bag." - Bill Simmons 6/26/08
by SpyderRyder on Dec 23, 2008 12:32 PM PST up reply actions
Gotta
be the Blazers logo. Alot of things about this team are debatable but not this. Blazers logo’s only real challenge in my mind is the heat cause I love the flaming basketball hoop I mean thats just cool. Our logo looks like some crazy magical symbol and looks powerful. I say Blazers logo FTW.
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Best logo? Hmmmmmm.....
For classic sake, I like the Knicks and the Bulls as well as the Blazers. I think the Bulls might be the best for just representing the name. I mean, what the hell is a knickerbocker anyway? Didn’t they change the name because of the obscurity. Blazers are second on coolest logos for me, behind the Bulls.
And FYI, the five halves of the pinwheel on either side I believe are supposed to represent the five players on each team, and the center is supposed to represent the unity and beauty the ten players competing.
by RipCityRhapsody83 on Dec 22, 2008 2:31 PM PST reply actions
oh wow i didnt know that
i guess if i googled hard enough i could find it, but thanks for clarifying!
actually i secretly like the celtics logo as well, but i wont be saying that around here :)
I was going to say it is very Zen looking
and cool looking at the same time. Then you just sinched it (if true), it’s very Zen and a great basketball LOGO.
GO
THE TEACHER ......come into my classroom "THE PAINT" for some tutelage.
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"You could hurt somebody in the first row with a shot like that" -
Mike Rice, Portland at Denver 12/22/08
Blazers logo
I’m not 100% on this, but someone told me long ago that the blazers logo signifies 5 on offense-5 on defense. I’ve stuck with that theory ever since. I like it…
this is the accurate thinking
"Phooey Michael, P-H-O-O-E-Y, phooey", said Tony Luftman.
by Outlaw is Rejector on Dec 22, 2008 4:43 PM PST up reply actions
80's and 90's
Portland used to win consistantly for the best uni’s in the league, not sure about logo, I like the old hornets logo, and the magic have a good looking uni.
I try to help with everything," Fernandez said. "If the coach says go rebound, I go rebound. I work for the team."
ugh
the old cartoony hornets logo? Bleh.
I like the new logos pf the Warriors, Rockets, kings, and grizz
Blazer's fan since '84, Currently exiled in San Antonio
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by HurraKane212 on Dec 22, 2008 3:21 PM PST up reply actions
Its a pinwheel
Its a pinwheel, like the pinwheels on wheels of the western wagons Trailblazers used coming here to Oregon. Nothing more complicated than that.
The NBA does not have very good logos IMHO. Most of them are so superficial.
superficial?
Aren’t all logos superficial? Otherwise they would show up on X-Rays
That 70's show:
Kelso: Red! I guess ur wondering why I'm going through your stuff. See, I needed to borrow your saw...because I need to chop down a tree...because there's something stuck in it...an animal...a rabbit...and I would like to return that rabbit to the wild so it can lay its eggs!
Red: Kelso, rabbits don't..............how the hell did a rabbit get up a tree?
Kelso: uhhhhhh Eric threw it up there.
Red: Eric threw a rabbit up a tree?
Kelso: Yeah, he's a sadistic bastard.
by 92wastheyear on Dec 22, 2008 3:31 PM PST up reply actions
Yes
Superficial like in what you see is what you get. They are not like the FedEx logo or like in the NFL, the Atlanta Falcons. Have you ever noticed the Falcon on their helmets formed a “F” too?
That's not being superficial..
that’s just being ‘not witty’.
"Well, Travis just showed us that we can go to Travis Outlaw." - Nate McMillan
most NBA logos are too cartoony
most of the typography is pretty terrible as well.
I like the pinwheel by itself, not the black box around it
http://www.internationalbasketball.com/logo-nba-PortlandTrailBlazers.gif
The worst ever IMO
Denver : 1982-93
http://www.chriscreamer.com/images/logos/6/229/full/5748.gif
"shaq and zach randolph have the same trainer... "
best one liner i ever heard.
although the one before that wasn't so hot either.
Images courtesy of (uh, stolen from?) sportslogos.net, a pretty cool site.
what?? this logo is awesome!
"Phooey Michael, P-H-O-O-E-Y, phooey", said Tony Luftman.
by Outlaw is Rejector on Dec 22, 2008 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
Are they owned by universal studios?
kinda like the Anaheim Mighty Ducks?
"Damn the Blazers. Damn them to hell. They are working the rest of the league like a speed bag." - Bill Simmons 6/26/08
by SpyderRyder on Dec 23, 2008 12:36 PM PST up reply actions
Naturally I have bias
But I think the Bulls logo is the best. Hasn’t changed in years, the uniforms have not gone through any major changes either (though they are shinier now). Blazers logo/uniform are high up because of their uniqueness, love the Knicks logo. I also think the Hornets current logo is also one of the cooler ones.
Vinny Del Negro interviewed for the job today. I mean come on! Nobody else thinks this is nuts?
by Juiceboxjerry on Jun 6, 2008 4:21 PM CDT actions actions 0 recs
Best logo in pro sports
Blazer pinwheel is a classic. I believe that it is the best logo in sports by far. And the only one I would ever think about getting tattooed on. It is unique, elegant and classy.
Logo Definition
The team’s colors are red, white, black, and silver, which was added in 2002.9 The team’s “pinwheel” logo, originally designed by the cousin of former Blazer executive Harry Glickman, is a graphic interpretation of two five-on-five basketball teams lined up against each other. One side of the pinwheel is rendered in red; the other side is rendered in a monochrome color (black, silver, or white). The logo has gone from a vertical alignment to a slanted one over time.8
The new Nuggets logo is sweet.
Saw it for the first time tonight, loved it! For some reason I could only see it on NBA.com’s homepage where all of the scores are shown. Simple, elegant, and it really pops.
smile, your on a poster
The Chicago Bulls logo is the best
and I kinda’ like the rockets’ new logo as well…
I think I can only add "The NBA, where caring for everybody but the fans happens". --amlmart1
i would like the rockets logo
if they weren’t so obviously trying to appeal to china. I mean they came out with the new one at the same time the drafted yao ming and their jersey just looks like the Chinese flag imo.
i hate the suns, king and nets logos. also i hate the nets jersey’s too(why would u want to wear grey?)
i kinda like the raptors but mainly just for the name(dinosuars are always a plus for me)
also like the cav’s, warriors and the bulls/knicks are classics
but the pin wheel is the best.
The Mav's logo is pretty cool
"There is a difference between having two guys banging down low and having two guys who can bang down low." - Blazin'
I'm surprised by how few NBA logos I like.
I just tried thinking of them, one at a time, going through the entire league.
And to my surprise, aside from Portland, I just never had a reaction of, “Niiiiiiiiiice”.
(I particularly hate the Heat “logo”: the word “HEAT” in block capitals,
with a little flame thingy on the top left corner of the ‘H’.)
The NBA is just way behind the other major sports (NHL included) for good logos.
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway
You know what? Surprisingly, I like the Clippers' logo.
The fact that it’s the Clippers makes it hard to consider as “good”, but it is.
Very classic-pinstripey in an old-school-baseball kinda way.
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway
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