In the NBA’s defense, Siegel says that he never told anyone at the league that the logo was modeled after West and never intended for it to be recognizable as the Lakers star. West retired from ...

Jerry West — one of the greatest Lakers of all time and the only player ... The answer: West inspired the NBA's iconic logo. Here's how West earned that prestigious honor and how he felt about ...

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 ... Hall of Fame career with the Lakers. Stern’s reason for staying ...

Crypto.com Arena), brought L.A. to nine NBA Finals as a player, winning one. He also was the front office architect behind the Showtime Lakers of the 1980s, highlighted by Hall of Famers Kareem ...

That season, the Lakers won 54 regular-season games and locked in a first-round bye in the 1962 NBA Playoffs. West was also given the nickname “the Logo” in reference to the NBA logo his ...

Jerry West, the basketball ... Lakers to a championship in 1972 as a player, built the team’s “Showtime” and Kobe-Shaq-era dynasties as general manager and whose silhouette inspired the NBA ...