The issue with the logo is that it's pushing some fine-but-not-great lettering to the top of the hierarchy (two-too-many moves in PORTLAND); the mark is too small and the additional stroke makes it confusing as to whether there are five elements clashing (the negative space) or four (the positive space). (Or six? IDK)
We tried to force ourselves to include lockups for every single team with both a mark and the city/team name... but for the blazers, it felt right to make them the exception. JUST a mark. The Nike of the NBA. And while we were at it, we removed the stroke, adjusted the end-caps of the lines, and distilled the mark back down to it's essence—pure, five-on-five poetry in motion.
We built a lettering style that plays off the angle and movement of the logo, and numbers that are all built out of five lines moving in concert to match the concept. The secondary logo is a simple RIP CITY lockup.