New Orleans Hornets Will Rebrand as Pelicans in Time for 2013-2014 NBA Season

[Conrad.]

'Cans primary in the previous Creole colors:

[Sport]

It's no fluer de bee, but the fluer de pelican is pretty nice on it's own.

Hornets is yours if you want it, Charlotte.

[MEANS]

So...they stole the old, LeBron era Cav's color scheme? Why cant the NBA get some original color combinations out there?

Cavs was a darker red, Nuggets were a shade lighter than that, and Pelicans is the lightest red of the 3

[mattb6]

'Cans primary in the previous Creole colors:

why didn't they go with this?!

(also thanks a lot dc in the house w/o doubt cause now all im gonna see is a bird with an afro)

[CDixonDesign]

Countdown to the .pdf logo sheet being found online. Here come the wave of concepts.

[pittsburghsports16]

The "A" in these two logos really bug me (no pun intended), especially since they are at virtually the same angle, so it's not like the "A" in the primary wouldn't work in the "NOLA" logo.

[TheOldRoman]

Introducing the New Orleans Pelicans.....Really? That is the worst possible name they could have come up with. Nothing screams terror like a pelican [sarcasm]. I am just proud that I am not the only one who agrees that this is bad.

Because Cardinals, Packers, Knicks, Pacers, Twins, Orioles, Lakers, Clippers, Rockies, Browns, Jazz, Cubs, White Sox all instill terror....

Right. Team names don't have to be fierce. However, particularly with a non-fierce name, you don't need to use FIERCE ANIMAL HEAD as the logo. They could have made a logo that had a non-enraged pelican.

[GeauxColonels]

So...they stole the old, LeBron era Cav's color scheme? Why cant the NBA get some original color combinations out there?

Well to be fair, the colors the Pelicans are using are the colors of the New Orleans flag so it's just an odd coincedence.

I dig the look, especially the fleur-de-lis.

True, other than the gold. The flag of New Orleans uses yellow instead of gold. But gold works better than yellow here.

[ohryan]

The "A" in these two logos really bug me (no pun intended), especially since they are at virtually the same angle, so it's not like the "A" in the primary wouldn't work in the "NOLA" logo.

Yeah, now that I see that, it bugs me too. I'm also a little bothered by the O in Orleans not being larger than the rest of the word, but it would throw things a lot of things off if that were the case.

[Conrad.]

more anatomically-correct application of the Creole colors:

[tubby34]

The "A" in these two logos really bug me (no pun intended), especially since they are at virtually the same angle, so it's not like the "A" in the primary wouldn't work in the "NOLA" logo.

Looks like they modified it to give the NOLA a rectangle effect instead of a rectangle with a corner missing.

Looks good the way they did it, on its own

[MEANS]

it wouldn't work b/c it doesn't have a flat top, so next to the "L" which creates a weird negative space already it would only create more negative space. So I'd almost like to see the flat top "A" in the primary if it had to be.

[CDixonDesign]

Introducing the New Orleans Pelicans.....Really? That is the worst possible name they could have come up with. Nothing screams terror like a pelican [sarcasm]. I am just proud that I am not the only one who agrees that this is bad.

Because Cardinals, Packers, Knicks, Pacers, Twins, Orioles, Lakers, Clippers, Rockies, Browns, Jazz, Cubs, White Sox all instill terror....

Right. Team names don't have to be fierce. However, particularly with a non-fierce name, you don't need to use FIERCE ANIMAL HEAD as the logo. They could have made a logo that had a non-enraged pelican.

So you would have preferred a "cute, smiley, Orioles-esque" pelican? I feel like you would have argued either way...

[hjwii]

Just in case you needed your Pelicans merchandise ....

http://www.hornetsnestonline.com/index.php?v=hornets_pelicans&icid=slider_pelicans_1-24-13

[hawk36]

I like it. Pretty cool set.

Agreed. Well done. Makes me really like the Pelicans name and I was not a fan of the name at all before this.

[Rockstar Matt]

'Cans primary in the previous Creole colors:

why didn't they go with this?!

(also thanks a lot dc in the house w/o doubt cause now all im gonna see is a bird with an afro)

Maybe because it's not as good? The new color scheme is awesome.

[GeauxColonels]

The "A" in these two logos really bug me (no pun intended), especially since they are at virtually the same angle, so it's not like the "A" in the primary wouldn't work in the "NOLA" logo.

It doesn't bother me too much. I'm thinking the intent was to give the logo a symetrical look to it without having any empty blue space at the upper right had they used the pointed "A" from "New Orleans" in the "NOLA" logo.

[Chawls]

Gonna miss that Creole Blue. It looks so gorgeous in person.

But I really like the new "Bird-de-lis".

[epper]

Bravo. (Braveaux?)

I love pretty much everything about this.

[TaylorMade]

So...they stole the old, LeBron era Cav's color scheme? Why cant the NBA get some original color combinations out there?

Well to be fair, the colors the Pelicans are using are the colors of the New Orleans flag so it's just an odd coincedence.

I dig the look, especially the fleur-de-lis.

True, other than the gold. The flag of New Orleans uses yellow instead of gold. But gold works better than yellow here.

They admitted in the press conference that the gold was used because of the Saints.