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GOOD ART — The Twitter (or X, or whatever we're calling it this week) account NBA Paint has picked up quite the following over the years.
There's just something about seeing elite NBA athletes depicted as silly, humorous stick figures — especially when goofy nicknames are involved. Sometimes it's the simple things that make you smile.
Jayson Potatum. pic.twitter.com/RVWFSH6MRA
— nba paint (@nba_paint) February 17, 2021
Bye-rie Irving. pic.twitter.com/P3B2v1uRrt
— nba paint (@nba_paint) February 3, 2023
Time Dame. pic.twitter.com/63C57TMdo1
— nba paint (@nba_paint) October 23, 2022
The person behind the account, who's appropriately known as "Mr. Paint," has turned the goofy social media hobby into a full-fledged business with multiple partnerships (Ruffles apparently really liked the Tatum-potato combo) and a successful shop that sells merchandise with the popular drawings.
"There's something inherently beautiful about bad art and stuff that's not perfect," he told The Athletic earlier this year.
Lately, he's used that beautifully bad art to redesign teams' logos. On Thursday, the Utah Jazz were up.
Utah Jazz logo redesign. pic.twitter.com/Joqg7rHl9n
— nba paint (@nba_paint) August 10, 2023
The Jazz gave it a thumbs up, and even changed their profile picture on Twitter to the new design.
And, if we're being honest, the silly look might have gone over better than last year's purple-is-back-but-not-actually-that-back redesign, too. And if you like it, there's plenty of stuff you can buy with the fun logo.
