Logo on championship banners

[Barry Lird]

I notice that there are 2 types of NBA logos on the championship banners. Why? What's the significance of them?

[Roy Hobbs]

This question comes up from time to time, and nobody has been able to answer it.  I'm curious to know, myself.

[Barry Lird]

Does it correlate with who had home court advantage for the series?

[Edgar]

Does it correlate with who had home court advantage for the series?

thats a nice asumption, I was thinking on that myself
I dont know either
but what Roy says its true every other time people come here with the same question
maybe we should try asking CROTOR

[Redz]

We tossed around about every possible theory behind this the last time it came up, but none were ever confirmed.

My personal theory is that it was at the whim of whoever was making the flag and no real thought went into the logo choice either way.

[LarBrd33]

Does it correlate with who had home court advantage for the series?

thats a nice asumption, I was thinking on that myself
I dont know either
but what Roy says its true every other time people come here with the same question
maybe we should try asking CROTOR

You know you're a Celtic diehard when you know CROTOR

[larry_nerd]

Does it correlate with who had home court advantage for the series?

thats a nice asumption, I was thinking on that myself
I dont know either
but what Roy says its true every other time people come here with the same question
maybe we should try asking CROTOR

You know you're a Celtic diehard when you know CROTOR

for those of us that that dont know, what is CROTOR?

[Edgar]

Does it correlate with who had home court advantage for the series?

thats a nice asumption, I was thinking on that myself
I dont know either
but what Roy says its true every other time people come here with the same question
maybe we should try asking CROTOR

You know you're a Celtic diehard when you know CROTOR

for those of us that that dont know, what is CROTOR?

Just like your first question
I am not sure world is ready to know that

or
Maybe nobody knows     


A long time ago he was sometimes mentioned here as the source of every single trade rumor
the man without a face
the who???
who knows 

[paintitgreen]

I thought I was going to solve this puzzle, as I was once told it correlated to whether the clincher was played at home or on the road. When we clinch at home (like this year), NBA is written in green in a white circle with small green marks at the top and bottom. When we clinch on the road (like in 81), NBA is written in white in a green circle.

But looking over the banners, that's not true. We clinched at home in 57, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 84 and 86. But 64 and 57, for example, clearly have different logos.

Maybe there really is no answer.

[BringToughnessBack]

Does it have anything to do with when we rolled the old ABA into the NBA- 2 Logos, 2 Former Leagues?

[wdleehi]

Does it correlate with who had home court advantage for the series?

thats a nice asumption, I was thinking on that myself
I dont know either
but what Roy says its true every other time people come here with the same question
maybe we should try asking CROTOR

You know you're a Celtic diehard when you know CROTOR

for those of us that that dont know, what is CROTOR?

The myth.  The Legend.


CROTOR is like the Batman of CelticsBlog rumors.  No one has ever really seen CROTOR.  But his legend has grown.


(anyone remember if the CROTOR rumor ever happened?  I can't remember what the rumor was.)

[Roy Hobbs]

(anyone remember if the CROTOR rumor ever happened?  I can't remember what the rumor was.)

Nope, it didn't come through.  The rumor was that Doc was going to be fired mid-season.  I think the replacement was Rick Adelman, but I can't remember for certain.  I believe it was originally posted by Jumbocavs.

[Hoops]

Didn't CROTOR also prophesy a major player trade as well? I don't remember exactly, but it seems like he predicted more than just Doc being fired...

[Employee8]

I regularly check out www.uniwatchblog.com and it's funny that this topic got brought up on their website too.  Paul Lukas (the site writer) asked his readers if they knew anything about the differences in the NBA logo on the banners.  A person, Wally1912 wrote in this reply.

I guess it's just to make us go, "huh?!"


#68 by Wally1912 on 06.19.08 12:23 pm | Quote   


I wrote to Celtics a couple of years back regarding the NBA circle on the banners and got a response from Jeff Twiss of the C’s front office. He said their was no rhyme or reason to the two different types of circles. The manufacturer of the banners over the years simply inserted one of two different types at their fancy.

The recreations which hang in the New Garden simply copied the originals found in the Old Garden for authenticity’s sake.

FYI, the new scaled down banner the C’s are using today on one of their duck boat parade vehicles has the circle with the green edges, white middle, and green NBA letters.

[Roy Hobbs]

Yeah, that's what I pretty much assumed.  It's just random.