The logo, uniform, and branding history of the National Basketball League (NBL Canada)

The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional basketball league in the United States. Established in 1935 as the Midwest Basketball Conference , it changed its name to the NBL in 1937. After the 1948–49 season, its twelfth, it merged with the Basketball Association of America (BAA) to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).

The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946. Following its third season, 1948–49, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League (NBL) to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).

During the 1940s most BAA and NBL team logos that had color had simple greens, yellows, reds and blues, and this color scheme stayed pretty consistent until the 1960s. In the late 1960s a rival to the NBA, the ABA, formed and with it came a whole new slew of colors.

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The logo, uniform, and branding history of the teams of the National Basketball Association (NBA)

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Two seasons after its existence in 1947, the BAA was able to lure the Minneapolis Lakers away from the NBL along with the Rochester Royals, Fort Wayne Pistons and Indianapolis Jets. Adding the Lakers to the BAA gave them the games biggest star in George Mikan.

The NBA logo was created in the year 1969 by Alan Siegal and debuted in 1971. It is still used as the official logo to be used to this day. The American Basketball Association (ABA) was formed in 1967 and became one of the major rivals of the NBA for several years.

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