The colors and streaks closely resembled those of the Los Angeles Lakers, given that both teams shared the same owner. The ...

Legendary Los Angeles Lakers player and executive Jerry West, who has passed away at the age of 86, was the inspiration for ...

Jerry West sadly passed away on Wednesday aged 86, with his legacy to forever to be remembered by the NBA with his body quite ...

(Greg Baker/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) 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 ...

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 ...

Jerry West, the Los Angeles Lakers legend as both a player and an executive who was later dubbed “the Logo” after he was immortalized on the NBA’s symbol, has died at the age of 86.

David Stern went to his grave without admitting that Jerry West was the inspiration for the NBA logo. West died Wednesday ... Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times.

built the team’s “Showtime” and Kobe-Shaq-era dynasties as general manager and whose silhouette inspired the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles. He was 86. West was “the ...

LOS ANGELES — Since 1969, Jerry West has been the faceless face of the NBA. For those 5 1/2 decades, the NBA's logo has been a blank white silhouette of a player flanked by panels of blue and red.

Entering the offseason, the Los Angeles Lakers have some specific needs to fill out across the roster. One of them is addressing the lack of big men on the roster to play alongside or behind star ...

helped the Golden State Warriors start a dynasty and was part of the Los Angeles Clippers front office. Oh, and he’s the NBA logo. Literally! That’s his silhouette that graces the logo.