The silhouette that graces the logo of the NBA was taken from a photograph clicked during West's playing career, an image ...

David Stern went to his grave without admitting that Jerry West was the inspiration for the NBA logo. West died Wednesday at 86 knowing with certainty that he was “The Logo” — and he wasn ...

Officially, the NBA's logo is blank. It is an anonymous, faceless player dribbling a ball against a red and white background. That's the NBA's story and it's sticking to it. Unofficially ...

Adidas is known for its athlete collaborations, often marking the occasion with a new logo, but impressing sports fans and ...

The NBA has never officially acknowledged that its classic red, white and blue logo was modeled after Jerry West, the Los Angeles Lakers legend who died Wednesday at 86, but the man who designed ...

The NBA logo, which features a faceless player dribbling a ball against a red and blue background, is well known to be the silhouette of one of the league's first icons: Jerry West—who died aged ...

The NBA logo is one of the most iconic designs in sports, worn on basketball jerseys around the globe. The man who has long been associated as the source of inspiration for the league's "the Logo ...

and A. with NBA.com that, “It isn’t him literally, but based on his style of dribbling and moving.” There have occasionally been pushes to change the logo over the years — some of them ...