The Nuggets have revealed a new name and logo for their G League affiliate, the Grand Rapids Gold, making the announcement on social media today.
Prior to this season, the affiliate was known as the Grand Rapids Drive and operated by the Pistons. The team will enter the 2021/22 season associated with the Nuggets for the first time.
“This new affiliation and corresponding name change is one of the biggest moves we’ve made as a franchise,” Grand Rapids Gold president Steve Jbara acknowledged in a press release.
“Aligning ourselves further with the Denver Nuggets, a team that recently advanced past the first round of the NBA playoffs for the third consecutive season, further elevates the professional basketball experience here in Grand Rapids, and we couldn’t be more excited to get back on the court this fall.”
Denver is the second team to announce changes to its G League name and logo this year. The Maine Red Claws previously announced that they would become the Maine Celtics back in May.
“We are extremely excited about the new name and logo of the Grand Rapid Gold,” Nuggets president of basketball operations Tim Connelly said. “We feel the new look aligns well with both the Nuggets and Grand Rapids organizations and are excited to see it in action on the court next season.”
so why not have a pic of the new logo also? i don’t want to go to their website, lazy.
Looks like it’s just the word gold in big golden letters and a basketball for the O, nothing terribly exciting. From what I hear the word nuggets in Denver is slang for weed, so Grand Rapids Ganja would have been a better name if it was legal in Michigan too.
its legal in michigan.lol. and they deliver. watch out for the ganja, they’ll slow your (pre)roll.
You must really old. Nuggets has been used for decades. I guess you remember when it was legal.
All of us old people over 30 aren’t hip like you kids are.
Wow, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in that meeting.
Exec 1: So what do we name the team?
Exec 2: (looks at Nuggets logo) Why not gold?
Exec 1: Meh…sure why not?
All other execs: Peas and carrots. Peas and carrots.
Why not just Nuggets JV.
They should be called the Great Rapids Bob Marleys and their mascot should be Bob Marley smoking a doobie and shooting a 3 pter
Get it?
They should make Bob Markey the mascot if they can get the licensing I think itd be pretty clever…get it?