NBA Logos Through the Years 

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Only Rockets and Raptors changed ;)

What is the title of the song ?

@@phernadio5938 A fucking migraine, that's what.

@@wintermute8315 amen bro

Funny how the Original Bulls were the Washington Wizards... no wonder Jordan wanted to play for them.

BULLSNATION

...but it seems to be inspired by Chicago packers

I feel like at this point it’s been so long they can’t and shouldn’t change it

Yeah unlike Chicago fire they fucked up their logo 🤦🏻‍♂️

Wizards: YESSS

time stamp

@@danielmakhlouf8931 Warriors: yes

Bulls are the oldest bro

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C you fuckin stupid shut the fuck up

They'll eventually rebrand or relocate, dropping that goofy Pelican nonsense lol

@@darkmatter7668 Nah if you know the history of the name it was a really good change

@Sonic Optics Spurs are a great organization but I think they have the most goofy name

@@Joshua-dl3ns Really? I believe “Pistons” my (hometown)have the goofy name as well as Nuggets and cavaliers.

@@darkmatter7668 if they rebrand it'll be back to the old "Jazz" name. What makes you think they'll relocate tho?

Except my bulls

@@ricardoolea5114 ...and jazz.

Well in the 90s there was "big bold letter logo" trend, now it is circle, who knows what will be popular in the next decades.

I was fr thinking the exact same thing who knows what's going to be the new trend with logos

They're made to be patches.

It’s because the team kept relocating

Neither can Atlanta

It's ironic that the Washington Wizards copied colours off the the Washington Capitals.

@@pennsylvanianrrfoamer No irony. Wizards and Capitals owned by the same person, Abe Pollin.

Bring back the Bullets!

That's my Bucks

LMAO

I love all of their logos!

milwaukee the only team to make deers look cool

My team don’t play lol

Fr

Then came Hornets, another kickass first logo.

I wish the old pistons logo would come back

Same and im not even a fan

2005 - 17 Pistons logo isn’t bad at all and is kinda clean for the present day look, the new one perhaps sucks

Warriors one at that time was fire too

No the 90s logos are super bad

Lmao dang that accuracy

back in the day they use to play with a tenneis ball to optimize scoring %

Haha didn’t even catch that

No 5:56 is

3:51 thats a damn volleyball

John Stamos it gave me a headache

yeah

the background music sucks

Yeah I was like if this kick drum doesn’t get tf out of my ear

Am i the only one who kinda likes it?

Is the best, why they change this logo?????

@@gustavobarbosa2238 probably because purple isn't very intimidating.

@@LikeMyProfilePic any color can be intimidating with a proper designer lol

The present logo is also a good one. A basketball with a dinosaur paw is full of a sense of design. The only problem is that too many teams choose to use a circle as the central part of their logos nowadays.

@@gustavobarbosa2238 They change it to simpler logos to save on printing costs. notice how most logos nowadays are getting more simplified.

I remember it being ugly in 96 and it's still ugly now. There's a reason they changed it back.

@@darkmatter7668 In my opinion, much better than today's, but respect your thoughts

I think the 2001 one has better colors imo

Then it went super boring

also '97 warriors

What the atrocious logo or the name? Lmao

Yes... yes we are 🤢

Lmao

What are those😂😂

Chicago Mother "Packers"

NOPE

And they never will. Too iconic and too much history. Just like the other Chicago sports logos.

No need, that bull is iconic.

Welp,that’s Classic

EXACTLY

I was about to make that comment but a 💯.

They def got real unique at that time, my favorite too

Yeah I agree

Can you feel the heat down in your soul?

fr! idk why they changed it to those ketchup and mustard colors, they need to change it back

Afnaan Syed I’m a huge Celtics fan to and I’m kinda disappointed they never really changed their logo to much

The Celtics SUCK!!! I'm a Lakers FAN!

@@colleenwoods6119 who ask you

smarties science stop hating plus nobody asked you fool

shefpanda supremeeo

The ball is slightly darker

The shield is also slightly darker

The horse is slightly darker.

@@aleksandarstojilovic ok no

The team is... wait.

It started as the packers, then the zephyrs, and it came to be the Chicago bulls as we know it today

A lot of horrid 90's designs. Too many heavy outlines used. Glad to see the garish beveled typeface effect go away.

Franz Ferdinand I agree with this 100 percent ie sixers, pistons, Sonics etc

Darrell Ludlow the 90s logos were the best

Darrell Ludlow bro the 90's Logos had so much character and uniqueness. Now all the logos are the same minimalist crap.

@@johnmaddenforsmash8993 And you can say the same about jerseys and courts too. Look at how the Rockets arena in the late 90s versus today. Or the Golden State Warriors even. Night and day difference.

DA BULLS!!🏀

And as a result it looks iconic

Talk about DaBulls' loyalty 😂

Heat was close. One slight colour change.

@@nicholastang6343 the problem with the heats is that they made it worse that orange and black is fire

I don't understand how is it possible?

It’s so fucking telling that they have “logos”. American teams are just brands. European teams are clubs.

@@andro_system because sports teams in America are essentially businesses. They can move from city to city as they please

@@albinjohnsson2511 wait then what are the European team icons called?

Celtics have actually changed their logo 6 times

@@gilbertdennis4872 It did change 5 times, because the clover was the original one. From then, they changed 5 times.

Sammie try being one from Charlotte lol

My condolences to the supersonics fans. It was very unfair what happened to them. A pity for a franchise with so much history. Those motherfuckers stole a piece of Seattle.

I’m a blazers fan and I’m with you on that

I kinda have stop watching NBA in the ealiers 2000s, so, I always wonder what the hell happened to the sonics everytime I watch something about the NBA. Just recently I read that they become the thunders! Anyway, what happened to them to change to a different city and name? Same goes for hornets thing! Not sure what happened there too. They change for bobcats, then hornets again, but was another hornets team and now are pelicans!!! Damn... This 10/15 years seens like a mess and the NBA Imo kinda lost that uniqueness it have. I kinda start watching again, and sometimes the damn games looks like 3 point shooting contest!

I never got to see them play. I was born in 2005

Straight up, might be the best nba logo ever. That logo screams HEAT !

@War Productions ИМ Those 90's designs were atrocious and didn't standthe test of time at all ! your attachment to these is 100% emotional you prolly got into ball around late 90's early 2000's. The old heat logo will still be hot 25 years from now. A great designer once said "a logo isn't communication, it's identification" Those 90's logos all look the same from 5meters away

The logo on one of those Satin Starter jackets. It was lit!

I wish they never changed it

R/technically the truth 😂

The Knicks too

Haha lol!

The logo they have now its horrible lol

@@5thgen691 No, it looks better and pretty good to me. Represents the new home at San Francisco if you look at the bigger picture.

@@5thgen691 it's not even close to being horrible

Seamus Connolly how did that last 14 years

Nightmare fuel

😂😂😂

Why does it have to be a face

Acids was on the rage at that time so.

💯

It's funny that the Blazers logo looked more dated the more times they updated it. The first logo looks the most modern.

And now it just looks like trash

The Bullets just changed shades of blue like 4 times

Lol!

It's too iconic to change now.

“I FOUND MESELF A BERSKETBILL!!!”

@@FireballFlareblitz734 😂😂😂😂

The 2nd one too, the Tetris nuggets

Viking.

It was super cool!

Agreed. Even the thunders logos/emblem stuff is lame compared to all of the Sonics’ which were always iconic.

And Gary P. and Shawn Kemp can be coaches

Oklahoma City has embraced the Thunder more since 2008 than Seattle did the Sonics since the 90s. Seattle lost the team because they took them for granted. OKC has the second longest streak of consecutive home sold out games behind the Mavericks. Over 400 straight sold out games. Seattle could never

@@boytastic8879 it's a better city tho

@@boytastic8879 troll.

The old one looks better

Can you feel the heat down in your soul?

Nah, those logos were childish af

Agreed

@@sanick4864 at least is better the what we have now

This a whole video

Same

Same

Ikr

Lol same

Rofl the office

different shade of blue

Dog I had to google it. And I’m from Dallas

And Milwaukee Blackhawks which became the Milwaukee hawks 5 years later

Denver Rockets

Also Fort Wayne Pistons

Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons

They will always be the San Diego Clippers, there's only one basketball team in LA, and they wear purple and gold.

ItsGodsThirdNipple They also forgot the San Diego Rockets.

yeah i was waiting to see buffalo and it j never came

ItsGodsThirdNipple I’m sure Clippers fans would love to ignore those

Dirk McGough they literally wore buffalo jerseys this year tho😂

Dirk McGough bob macadoo

I agree with you

Especially for that time period!

Yeah, I'd never seen that one and it's one of the best pieces of design work of anything here, present day included. Very clearn.

What is wrong with u

@@footballboyjw fym it was fire 🔥

@@footballboyjw Their first is a dope, slept on logo. Their second logo looked great on jerseys too.

I honestly kinda love it for how silly it looks

That’s how roadrunners look 😂 MEEP MEEP

Yes, but bulls logo did not dominate.

Lmao😂😂😂

hahaaa 🤮🤣

She wants to eat Bullets

@@11x11_ and wizards

@@donkey1151 part of a balanced breakfast

It becomes especially obvious with the Hawks' logo change in 2015. The fact that it has "Basketball Club" written in their new logo reflects how they wanna emulate association football club badges so bad (I mean, do regular people even call basketball teams "clubs"??).

And Vancouver

I have no name lemme guess, you live in Vancouver

@@cringecentral_ nah

@@patrickbateman5658 new team name Vancouver Veggies

Vancouver should use a simple v logo as a basket like the V in the old Cavs logo. Could use the millionaires color as a cool reference to the city

They should seriously go back to Super Sonics

@@dabruhdude1177 yeah because Oklahoma city is too small for a nba franchise its the smallest market in the nba

I like okc and their jerseys are better. They should make the sonics an expansion team

@@chriswolf1089 Apologies in advance for the long response. This isn’t a terribly important discussion, so no worries if you don’t feel like engaging with my response. It’s not the smallest, but it is in a pack with Memphis, New Orleans, Milwaukee, and Utah (Salt Lake City) as the smallest markets depending on what metric you’re using to determine that label. There’s not really any such thing as “too small of a market” when it comes to sports teams. It has more to do with how much value a franchise is worth. Size of a market can play a big role in that a lot of the time - the biggest cities always have the most valuable franchises even if they aren’t very exciting on the court and the smallest cities will usually be in the bottom half regardless of how good their team actually is - but an owner and the NBA are going to be more interested in the value of the team over how big the city is. The main way city size comes into play is that having a team in a larger market is going to generally be better for team value since there are more potential fans to draw from without trying to market the team over larger regions, which it is also easier for bigger city teams to draw fans from outside their region since outside fans are going to generally be more familiar with New York or Chicago than Portland or Sacramento; in other words, big city teams do have a much easier time being financially valuable. When the SuperSonics were sold in 2006, they sold for $325 million. Today they are worth around $1.66 billion. That follows along the bell curve of the average worth of NBA franchises. Of course, they were doing better financially during their most successful years, but with the pandemic and the abysmal season for the Thunder, their value was actually one of the lowest increases with only the Brooklyn Nets having a lower change. The Thunder generally rank somewhere around 20 in terms of value, which isn’t fantastic, but they’re regularly above teams like Memphis and New Orleans and even much larger cities like Atlanta and Minnesota (Minneapolis). Of course, the Thunder have had a lot of on court success since their relocation from one of the better markets in the NBA (Seattle) to a much smaller market. All it takes is a 5-10 period of bad basketball and they could be a bottom 3 team in terms of value. That is something we’ll have to see if they ever do go that route. All that to say that it’s true to say that Oklahoma City is one of the smallest markets in the NBA but it’s inaccurate to suggest the team should be elsewhere due to Oklahoma City being too small to support a team. I would actually argue that the Los Angeles Clippers are in a worse geographic location than the Oklahoma City Thunder are, although the Clippers do quite well value wise since they are in Los Angeles despite actually having less of a geographic appeal than the Nuggets or Spurs, for example.

@@mabybee I don’t find it believable the meta value didn’t go up with them favorites to win the nba

They simplified traditionalist movement in graphic design. Most went from cartoony to enhanced with bevels and gradients, back to simplified with fewer colors.

Also, for the Pistons specifically, they wanted to harken back to the, "Glory days." (quote included)

Because it was overdesigned af like virtually all 90s sports logos. Now there’s a minimalist push, especially in basketball where a majority of logos are circular, so we see the opposite

That cool horse logo was never cool. It belongs on a chess board. The only semi-decent part of it was the tailpipes and even that was overkill.

I always thought the 90s had the best logos

Hello and just go back to the original.

Uncle Drew

0:44 hm

A cartoonist....

LOL. It is better than the first logo of washington wizards hahaha

Did you look at the Chicago Packers? Aka Washington Wizards

Ken Mondragon and raptors

they never changed it tf you talkin bout

Bulls is 0

@@babyymurda7311 he means 14 logos and 1 logo

@@3.14avlos uhhhh deleting this comment my lil cuzin made this

The 90s piston logo was straight heat dude

Iverson and kobe era when thangz got loose

96-04 jazz be hittin too fr

That logo is WAY too hard to replicate

@@11x11_ yeah I was taught the best logos can be scaled down to fit on a business card 😂😂 I guess Denver made it work nonetheless 😂😂😂

문성수 your the man because it was hard to find

Yep but even then i have known the whole clippers thing for a while now (i have been a fan for over 10 years).

Troll that's so true the Buffalo Braves had the best uniforms I'm 54 and I remember then they became the San Diego clippers

@LVhasAIDS I watched the video and I responded what's the problem

They will always be the San Diego Clippers, LA has only one team, and they wear purple and gold.

@LVhasAIDS your an idiot

Eric before San Diego They were the Buffalo Braves which is also omitted from this video!

😂

lol

Chicago Bulls: No

it's still ugly...

the ball got darker I guess?

they made the blue a little bit darker

@@hb6789 Thank you. That helps 👍

hb6789 aka... the logo didn’t change. I’m a mavs fan. It didn’t change.

idk why, but it is a darker blue

slightly darker shade of blue