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With the addition of Russell Westbrook, along with the Golden State Warriors losing Kevin Durant – and Klay Thompson for most of the season with an injury – the Houston Rockets are debuting a new look in a season in which they hope to finally overcome their rival.

The new logo features the same primary icon – a red “R” partially made up of a rocket, blasting off through a circle that could be construed as a basketball rim.

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By Matthew Harvey – Graphic Designer Website

Year: 2017

New version of a primary logo for the Lakers.
It is very difficult to design a new logo for a franchise that is so historic. With that said, I tried to keep this logo simple, and as close to the “Lakers” homage as possible. The typeface “Lakers” comes from the original Minneapolis Lakers, the ball still used from the original Los Angeles Lakers logo. This logo also features the star, between the “L.A.” letters, to represent the city of Los Angeles.

Disclaimer:

*This is not an official NBA or Los Angeles Lakers logo.

By Pan Hu – Graphic Designer Website

Year: 2016

The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, that competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA). With teams like Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, Washington Wizards and Toronto Raptors updated their logos in the past few months, I decided to work on an update version for the Lakers.

The current Lakers logo hasn’t changed much since the 1960/1961 season. Although the logo is very classic and well recognized, I still think an update is necessary.

The new logos I designed include some iconic elements that represent the city of Los Angeles. The shape of the primary logo is inspired by the Lakers championship banners. It also includes a star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a leaf from a palm tree. I also created all the letters in the logo, with inspiration from the iconic Hollywood sign. The secondary logo is simply a star and a basketball combined, while the inside lines shape the letters LA.

Disclaimer:

*This is not an official NBA or Los Angeles Lakers logo.

By Michael Weinstein – Graphic Designer Website

Year: 2010

My main concern was that it was a little generic-looking (so much that the Clippers basically copied this logo). The term “laker” is meaningless for this team and there is no mascot or icon that I could think of, so I tried to tweak a few things to make it more substantial.

The Lakers text hanging off the side of the ball forces a weird white outline for a lot of uses, so I added the circle to create a more solid shape. The 16 stars in the ring represent the Lakers 16 championships, the top 5 from Minneapolis, the bottom 11 from LA. The stars originally appeared in the old Minneapolis logo, and tie in with Hollywood, the walk of fame, “Showtime”, etc. I considered using more of an actual gold color, it always bothers me when teams use yellow and call it gold, but I decided the purple and yellow were too iconic to change up.