Company record

National Basketball Association

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Legal nameNational Basketball Association
Recorded countryUnited StatesUnited States
Founded1946Brand records34Recorded websitenba.com/

Not recorded: headquarters.

Cited research

About National Basketball Association

From the research on the NBA brand record · Professional basketball league

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. It was created on 3 August 1949 by the merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League, and counts the BAA’s founding on 6 June 1946 as its own. [1]

  • 1946-06-06 The Basketball Association of America was founded; the NBA treats this as its founding date. [1]
Sources (1)
  1. National Basketball Association ↗ · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-24

Compiled 2026-09-24 by AI-assisted source review. An editor has not yet independently confirmed these sources. Logo milestones are listed on the brand page.

Brand records

Filed under National Basketball Association

34 in the archive

National Basketball Association has 34 brand records in this archive, including the NBA record itself. All offer downloadable files (AI 34 · PNG 34); each brand page names the source and usage conditions of every file. Recorded industry: Sportswear & Leagues (34). The NBA record keeps 12 logo versions, listed below with their archive labels. Team records are grouped here with the league; the archive does not record which entity owns each team's mark.

Recorded domains

Websites

NBA logonba.comBrand record · NBA

Archive records

NBA logo records

NBA logo2023 · NBA OfficialArchive labelListed currentNBA logo2021 · NBA AnniversaryArchive labelEarlier recordArtwork unavailable1996 · NBA AnniversaryArchive labelEarlier recordNBA logo1996 · NBA AnniversaryArchive labelEarlier recordNBA logo1980 · NBA AnniversaryArchive labelEarlier recordNBA logo1970 · NBA AnniversaryArchive labelEarlier recordNBA logo1969 · NBA OfficialArchive labelEarlier recordNBA logo1962 · NBA OfficialArchive labelEarlier recordNBA logo1953 · NBA OfficialArchive labelEarlier recordNBA logo1950 · NBA OfficialArchive labelEarlier recordNBA logo1946 · NBA OfficialArchive labelEarlier recordNBA logo1937 · NBA OfficialArchive labelEarlier record

Records for the NBA brand. Years are archive labels; the brand page carries any cited history.

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