Jerry West, who died Wednesday at age 86. In 1969, the NBA hired a brand consultant named Alan Siegel to create a logo. One year earlier, he had done so for Major League Baseball, and the images ...

The Photo Behind the Logo The NBA logo’s silhouette is based on a photograph of Jerry West. The image, which featured West ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jerry West is an absolute ... Oh, and he's the NBA logo. Literally! That's his silhouette that graces the logo. So how did that happen? Hear from West himself in an appearance on Paul George's ...

with NBA.com that ... “The N.B.A. logo was created long before I joined the league but there was never any doubt in my mind, or in Jerry West’s, that his image was the inspiration for ...

NBA great Jerry West died on ... in fact West on the logo, a spokesperson replied: “There’s no record of it here.” Seeing as his employer didn’t link him to the image, West told the ...

Jerry West was an NBA champion as a player and ... about his association with the NBA logo. He sometimes wished people wouldn’t talk about the image and even felt it bothered people.

Which brings us to today's quiz. West retired with 25,192 points in his career, winning the 1969-70 scoring title with 31.2 ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Since 1969, Jerry West has been the faceless ... Kyrie Irving made an Instagram post of an NBA logo with Bryant’s image superimposed over West’s silhouette with ...

Jerry West, about two years ago, was on a podcast talking about Bill Russell. He called Russell the greatest winner to ever play professional basketball. West, also on that podcast, then said this ...