I'm not certain Ware or Bogut salary got anything to do with having to find $50g every year to keep the old logo. It seems pretty smart to me. At least the highest paid player now is Cotton so you will have to find something else to complain about.

As far as Smith goes at least he’s got funds to pay players and put on a good product, if most other clubs had a Smith the league would be a lot better.

Smith has said on Twitter that club logos are owned by the league and he had nothing to do with this decision. Good call blaming him though LoveBroker.

Love broker you absolute dickhead!
NBL owns logos!

StupidityBroker more like it

How much will Kings end up having to pay to golden State Warriors for their new blatant rip off logo?

If most other clubs had a Smith, we'd have a league full of sore losers who forfeit grand finals because they're losing.

Kings approached Violet Crumbles management with a view to incorporating the iconic chocolate bar manufacturers as part of logo but they didn't want to be associated with such an underperforming franchise.

Here is the online article.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/basketball/nbl-a-new-50000-licensing-fee-was-too-much-for-the-sydney-kings-who-now-need-a-new-logo/news-story/55c98d418e39fddfe31963f8e9d46962

Wether he had the option or didn't is irrelevant, why would anyone with half a brain pay 50g a year for a symbol when you can change it and pay nothing.

Why do people sprout off garbage as fact when its not. The Kings allegedly spent $1mill on outdoor advertising, bus? during the season.

"What? They spent a million dollars on billboard advertising alone."

Lol. They did not

The scariest part is the Kings might end up with a logo as amateur as the Wildcats logo. They definitely paid a an employee's 13 year old kid $50 for that eyesore.

What a poor attempt at click bait

Perthworld then perpetuares the myth. "This from the guy who paid $1mil for a billboard last season." Seriously? Douche.

The Melbourne four be toos hate the sydney owner so never gonna pay it.

Sydney Kings owner Paul Smith, who sold sports consultancy Repucom in a $US195m deal in 2016, says he will lose several million dollars this year.

"But we are investing and can handle it," Smith says. “We needed to do that to get the fans back to the Kings. We even spent $1m this year on a billboard advertising campaign, but we think that worked. It was probably worth $3m-$4m in exposure for us."

Possible indication of the new logo direction?

https://www.nblstore.com.au/collections/sydney-kings/products/sydney-kings-20-21-icon-lifestyle-tee

599, looks just like Golden State's logo to me?

Very similar to this GSW alternate.

https://www.cleanpng.com/png-golden-state-warriors-nba-oklahoma-city-thunder-ba-7208757/

Aside from the fact it's a fairly obvious rip off, it actually looks really good.

Is there a point? It had already been posted.

You will be waiting a long time for your apology, your reputation doesn't help Perthworld.

Plus who actually cares.

You post heaps Perthworld, perhaps spend more time with partner and family.

Perthworld the person above said ""This from the guy who paid $1mil for a billboard last season." Get it a BILLBOARD, not a billboard campaign. Massive dirrefence. No need for fact checking just the ability to comprehend.

You believe everything you read on the internet Perthworld. If you actually believe the Kings had a marketing budget big enough to spend $1m on a billboard advertising campaign you're even dumber than your posts on this forum make you look.

Smith’s job is to make the Kings look a lot bigger than they are.

Watch this space with Smith. Interesting times ahead. The Kings could become a lot bigger than they alreay are.

One day maybe 3% of Sydney people will know who they are instead of the 2% that do now

Remember how welll the league did without the Kings? I do.

Nope.

One day, the rest of Australia will realise there is a city out west called Perth, and Give a shit!

That probably had more to do with Lamelo Ball.

I didn't see any other teams pulling sell-out crowds against LaMelo.

Smith knows and understands the sports space better than any of the current NBL staff or other owners so happy to back him in on understanding the fans/market landscape in Sydney.

Smith as the owner of the Hawks would have been a massive boon for the league but its clear now head office want to be the only ones that own or have shares in multiple clubs.

Six teams had their biggest crowds of the season when lamelo played there.

How does Smith understand the sports space? What does that even mean?

Smith made the bet part of $250M AUD from sports so pretty strong case to say he knows more.

LaMelo got crowds everywhere but in Illawarra, because they knew his game and team where trash!

"Smith knows more about sports"
"How so?"
"Smith made money"

Oh OK, good answer.

Can you provide an example of something specific he has done in the past couple of years that really shows he has a solid understanding of sports? Because all I've seen is a narcissistic child who complains the loudest when things don't go his way, and has tried to make the league look foolish on more than one occasion.

You did note the kings where a basket case and basically have been running insolvent since the mid 90's

So why is it a requirment to know sport to own a team, any code?

Kings may be OK with their original logo. Swans have a new 'leaked' one.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/swans-to-launch-new-logo-but-not-because-of-opera-house-dispute-20201106-p56c4k.html