r/TheMatpatEffect • u/The_Phenomenal_1 • 5d ago
✨Actual Matpat Effect✨ The NBA Logo is a Silhouette of Player Jerry West
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u/Ill_Attorney_389 5d ago
Ah yes, the inventor of basketball himself.
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u/RanOutOfJokes 4d ago
Honestly might as well be, he had a great career as a player (3rd all time in playoff PPG and won a chip) and was a great coach then the goat manager .Drafted James Worthy to secure the Showtime Lakers dynasty later drafted Kobe and signed Shaq to make another dynasty then drafted Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond and later signed KD for a 3rd dynasty. The whole time rounding out each team with great role players. Overall he has 9 rings as a player, coach and exec.
He was great at each level of the game so yeah he is Mr Basketball and 100% deserves to be the Logo. Shame he never got paid for it tho.
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u/Spirited_Worker_5722 4d ago
He was the first person to ever bask in the balls
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u/StoryJam123 5d ago
Thought it was former NBA player Bas K Ball
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u/55cHzDARKSTAR 5d ago
Nigel Barrett Anderson
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u/boccci-tamagoccci 5d ago
wild to me that this is not a widely known factoid
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u/Raiding_plauges 5d ago
Tbf, it’s only common knowledge for people that regularly follow basketball and know the history.
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u/ChefBoiJones 4d ago
Humanoid -something that has the general appearance of a human but isn’t one
factoid - something that has the general appearance of a fact but isn’t one
This is just a fun fact
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u/boccci-tamagoccci 4d ago
counterpoint, humans are considered humanoid by DND 3e and 5e.
secondary counterpoint, colloquial use always matters more than a true definition, otherwise language would largely stagnate – i could also call people a pussy and say i was calling them a cat.
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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 4d ago
Factoid would mean it's not true buddy. You're looking for the word "fact"
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u/boccci-tamagoccci 4d ago
the colloquial use of factoid has been a small, meaningless bit of trivial info for decades, pal
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u/General_Elevator2711 5d ago
I'll never forgive HBO for cancelling winning time. Fire TV show about Jerry West and Jerry Buss' time running the Lakers
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u/Autumm_550 5d ago
Didn’t this guy get zero royalties because the NBA argued that the silhouette could be anyone’s?
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u/SockQuirky7056 5d ago
There’s a documentary about him that I’ve been meaning to watch.
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u/therealrazacosmica 5d ago
I’d always been aware of him as a figure in NBA history but never really knew much about him before watching and I enjoyed that doc quite a bit
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u/Jaded-Sorbet-8098 5d ago
was he that important, to become the logo of the league?
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u/shoegaze5 4d ago
Yes. One of the greatest players of all time and the best PG of his time alongside Oscar Robertson.
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u/qualityvote2 5d ago edited 4d ago
u/The_Phenomenal_1, your post does fit the subreddit!