Suns introduce new logo to celebrate 50 years

Draft night officially marked the beginning of the Phoenix Suns’ 50th Anniversary season, and the franchise opened the year with the unveiling of a new logo moments before the draft itself began.

Centrally emblazoned with the franchise’s secondary PHX logo with the fiery bird emerging from a basketball, the image is bordered by a shield that in and of itself boasts strength and courage. As the Super Bowl’s 50th logo departed from the traditional roman numerals, this logo departs from the franchise’s use of numbers to describe the anniversary, as the prior 25th, 30th, and 40th anniversary logo’s used.

As such, FIFTY is brightly (and again, dare I say boldly) headlined up top, while the word…