Okay, so, I was messing around online the other day, trying to figure something out about the NBA logo. You know, the one with the silhouette of Jerry West dribbling? Well, I stumbled onto this crossword puzzle clue, “NBA logo 3 paths”, and I was like, “What the heck does that even mean?”
So, I started digging. I mean, I’ve seen a bunch of NBA games, and I know about the three-point line, the arc around the basket. I remember that players get three points if they shoot from behind that line. But “3 paths”? That was new to me. I read in some article, or maybe it was a forum post, that the traditional logo was always placed a good distance away from the three-point line. But things have changed, apparently.
I hit up a crossword solver site, and you won’t believe it, it gave me, like, 30 different answers! 30! It was way too much to handle, so I narrowed it down to sources like the LA Times crossword. They had the “NBA logo 3 paths” clue in one of their puzzles.
Then, I found out that the whole “3 paths” thing might be referring to the colors in the logo. We all know it’s red, white, and blue, right? So that’s three colors, three paths… maybe that’s it? I don’t know, it still felt like I was reaching. It depends on when you grew up, I guess. Because the game has changed so much.
Then it hit me. The “Logo 3”. I’d heard the term before. It’s when someone takes a super long three-pointer, like, way out near the half-court logo. And those shots are crazy difficult. They have a “low probability of success”, someone said. But when a player makes one, the crowd goes wild! It’s a big deal.
So, is “NBA logo 3 paths” about the colors? Or is it about the “Logo 3” shot? Or both? I did some more reading. A guy named Alan Siegel designed the logo back in the day, after looking at a ton of pictures in a magazine. He landed on a cool one of Jerry West. It was all about capturing the action of the game.
- First:Maybe it is about the three colors, red, blue and white.
- Second:I think the 3 paths is the “Logo 3”, which is a 3-point shot from the logo.
- Third:I guess it could be both.
I’m still not 100% sure what “NBA logo 3 paths” truly means. It could be a combination of the colors and the “Logo 3”. It is driving me nuts! But it was a fun little investigation, I guess. This whole thing shows you how much stuff there is to learn, even about something as simple as a logo.
