1967, San Diego became the first 12 member of the NBA. The city government called on citizens to name the team. After several selections, the "rocket" that best reflects the rapidly developing space-age industry in the local area became the name of the team. Although the rocket moved to Houston on 197 1. But the name of the rocket also applies, because the American Aerospace Center, NASA, is located there.
2. Dallas Mavericks:
1979 Tang? Carter applied to the NBA to establish an NBA team in Dallas. Previously, Dallas used to have a professional basketball team (a jungle team belonging to the ABA League). But this team moved to San Antonio and later became the current Spurs. In the league meeting of 1980, NBA officials agreed to Carter's request. Approved teams from Dallas to participate in NBA league matches from 1980 to 8 1 season. In March, 1980, WBAP Radio launched a new naming activity for the NBA Army. Shortly thereafter, a list of more than 4,600 people was submitted to a five-member arbitration panel. Among them, the arbitration team is the team owner Donald? Carter chose. Finally, the calf became the name of the team. Calf should be interpreted as an unmarked calf (horse) or a lost calf (horse) in the old west. Dallas is a city in western Texas, named calf, to commemorate the local cowboy life in the west. Similar to the local NFL team dallas cowboys.
3. Memphis Grizzlies:
1995~96 Before the season, the NBA league expanded and the grizzly bear was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The team owner wants to choose a name suitable for Vancouver and British Columbia. After preliminary consultation, the team chose the Royal Mounted Police as the name of the team to express its praise to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. However, it wasn't long before the team decided to use the name grizzly bear instead. Because the grizzly bear is a unique animal in British Columbia, it occupies a special position in the culture of northwest Canada and even the whole of Canada. However, when the team moved to Memphis, Tennessee on 200 1, someone wanted to give the team a new name. In order to reflect some characteristics of the team's new home. However, after discussing this issue with season ticket holders, fans and the business community, the team management said that although Tennessee has no history of grizzly bears, people tend to keep the name grizzly bears. Although the name of the team has not changed, the team's logo has changed. The new logo embodies strength, ability, courage, personality, perseverance and fearlessness. The background color of the team logo is blue.
4. New Orleans Hornets:
Charlotte City (the original city of the New Orleans Hornets) was called Charlotte Ghosts before the NBA team settled down, but this name has been opposed by people in Carolina. To this end, the club collected team names from fans, and finally six names participated in the competition. In the end, the wasp won. 1988, the team officially launched the name of the wasp. Wasp's name can be traced back to the revolutionary war. Charles, the then British general? Cohen Voorhees said from Carrerona's letter to the king of England, "Fighting in this place is like fighting in a hive." In the 2002-03 season, the team moved to New Orleans, but still used the name of the Hornets. During Hurricane Cathrina in August 2005, the team temporarily moved to Oklahoma City, but still retained the name Hornets.
5. San Antonio Spurs:
1967, the predecessor of San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Jungle Team, was founded in Dallas. This team was named Jungle, because when the bosses decided to form this team, they were eating in an advanced club called Jungle Club. 1970, the team changed its name to Texas jungle team, but its home court is still in Dallas. 1973, a group of businessmen from San Antonio bought the Texas Jungle Team and moved to San Antonio, which is also a Texas city. To commemorate the local cowboys, this team is named after the spurs on the heels of cowboy boots, which are used to drive horses. 1976 The Spurs joined the NBA with three other ABA teams-the new york Nets, the Denver Nuggets and the Indiana Pacers.
6. Denver Nuggets:
This team was born out of 1967 Denver Rockets who joined ABA league. In the same year, the San Diego Rockets (now Houston Rockets) joined the NBA. Seven years later, Denver joined the NBA. But since the league already has the Rockets, Denver has to change its name. So in order to commemorate the gold rush that broke out in Colorado in the19th century, the Denver Rockets became the Denver Nuggets. Of course, this is also to commemorate the "Old Denver Nuggets" who played in the NBA for one year in 1949- 1950 season.
7. Minnesota Timberwolves:
The Minnesota Timberwolves have not entered the NBA for a long time. This team officially became a member of the League on 1989. Timberwolves were chosen as the team's name because Minnesota is the main habitat of Timberwolves in the United States. This logo was also selected through the "Team Name" activity. Fans cast 6076 votes and provided 1284 unique names. Among them, Timberwolves, 17 times nominated, and Arctic became the last two names to participate in the finals. Other 1282 entries also have their own characteristics, even including some names that need to be looked up in the dictionary.
8. Portland Trailblazers:
1970 February 10 NBA officials agree that Portland should form a professional basketball team to join the league. Two weeks later, the club's executive vice president Harry? Glickman launched a "team name" campaign. "There were about 10000 emails," he recalled. Among these works, the most popular one is Pioneer, but this name has been used by the team of Lewis-Clark College in Portland. So they decided to use the Blazers as the name of the team. "Some 172 people named the team' Blazers', and the team committee finally named it as the team name," Glickman said. "They decided to choose a lucky one among 172 fans who named the team' Blazers' by drawing lots. The draw was held in the regular season between Seattle and new york in March 13. " He said. Blake. Bowen is the final winner. He got two season tickets for the pioneers.
9. seattle supersonics (now Oklahoma City Thunder):
The name of this 1967 team that joined the NBA comes from Boeing aircraft that frequently take off and land in Seattle. A year before the team was founded, Boeing announced their plan to develop Concorde into a supersonic transport vehicle. Although the plan to develop a new concept supersonic airliner has not been realized, supersonic has left a deep impression on the public. Therefore, the name "Supersonic" won by an overwhelming margin in the team nomination activity.
10 Utah jazz:
1974, New Orleans held a signature event for its professional basketball team. The citizens of the city provided more than 6,500 names to the organizing committee. In the end, eight names entered the "second interview stage": Jazz, Duke, Crescent, Pilotage, Acadia, Bruce, Delta and Knight. After a heated discussion, team officials announced the name of the new team as the New Orleans Jazz on June 7th, 1974. Among those who participated in the nomination activities, three people put forward the name "Sir". Therefore, the team officially invited Miss New Orleans from 1974 to choose a lucky one among the three. Finally, 27-year-old businessman Steve? Brown became the winner. The former new york player who once played in the same basketball league with the famous "Dr. J" received two season tickets for the Jazz as a reward. Jazz also invited him to watch the 1975 NBA All-Star Game. New Orleans, the "Jazz Capital", likes this name which can represent the characteristics of the team very much. Romantic blue, gold and dark green have become the main colors of the team logo. In the next five years, New Orleans was the birthplace of urban jazz. However, when the team ended the season with the worst regular season record in NBA history 1978~79, the team management decided to move its home to Salt Lake City, Utah. Although the team's new home has no tradition of "jazz", the name has been preserved.
1 1. Golden State Warriors:
Golden State Warriors was one of the first 1 1 teams to join the NBA. When he was in Philadelphia from 65438 to 0946, all his bosses decided to name an old basketball team in Philadelphia after the Warriors. This team has been a member of the American Basketball Association since 1925. The name of this team changes with the position of the team. 1962, after the team moved to the west coast, the team was renamed the San Francisco Warriors, symbolizing that this team belongs to the whole of California; 197 1 year, the team moved to Oakland and changed its name to Golden State Warriors.
12. Los Angeles Clippers:
1978, the California coastal city of San Diego welcomed the Buffalo Warriors, because San Diego's team, the Rockets, moved to Houston seven years ago. But the official in charge of sports in San Diego believes that the name Warriors does not represent the spirit of San Diego. To this end, San Diego held a naming event. Finally, I chose the name Clipper, because San Diego is famous for its big ships crossing San Diego Bay. 1984, the Clippers went to Los Angeles, but they still kept their original names.
13. Sacramento Kings:
The Kings, formerly known as 1947, joined the NBL League Rochester Royal Team. 1957, the team moved to Cincinnati, but the name of the team was still Royal. 1972, they moved to Kansas city. Because the local baseball team in Kansas is called the Royal Baseball Team, they changed their name to the Omaha Kings in Kansas City. Three years later, they removed Omaha from their name. 1985, the Kings moved to Sacramento, but this time it didn't change its name.
14. Los Angeles Lakers:
1947, the Minneapolis Lakers joined the NBL league. A year later, the team transferred to the BAA League, the predecessor of the NBA League. The name of the Lakers comes from another name in Minneapolis-the land of thousands of lakes. Although there are no Great Lakes in Los Angeles, the Lakers 1960 did not change their original names when they moved to Los Angeles.
15. Phoenix Suns:
Like many people, Beguene may not remember what he had for lunch three days ago, but if you ask him about the letter he wrote to the then Phoenix basketball team 30 years ago, he will definitely remember it clearly. At that time, Bergne was only 12 years old, and he thought he had given a good name to the newly formed Phoenix professional basketball team. So he wrote to Al, one of the team owners. He recommended the name "Firebird" to Al. 1On October 23rd, his letter was posted. At the end of the letter, Beguene asked Al to write back to him at his convenience. However, the letter sank into the sea, and then Bergner found that his name had not been adopted. Coincidentally, this self-respecting diehard Sun fan owns an insurance company, and Al Media Company under Al's name happens to be their customer. So Beguene decided to visit his clients. He said, "I think I need to show him this letter. I'll ask him why he didn't answer my letter. " So he took his wife Lin to Sun's office. There they met Al. Al said to Begone, "That's a good name. In fact, firebird is one of the names we think is more suitable. " But, team general manager Jerry? In the "Team Name Collection" with 28,000 participants, Colangelo chose "Sun" as the name of the team. After that, a fan named Selinda entered the competition under the name of "Sun" and won a season ticket for one year and $65,438+0,000 in cash. "I want those tickets," said Bagny, who didn't want to fail. "I think my name is better than others." . In fact, "Firebird" is really a good name, but Beguene sent the letter in the wrong place. 1986, all major league baseball teams of the San Francisco Giants decided to change their team names. The final winner is Firebird. Poor Beguene missed the trip to Hawaii offered by the Giants.