This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. It's the end of 2021 if you can believe it.

And that means it's time for our annual mini stories episodes.

Many stories are joyful little stories that come up in our research for another

episode or maybe they're just some fun things someone told us about that we found really interesting,

but they didn't quite warrant a full episode in many months of hard reporting.

They're great 99pai stories nonetheless.

I love them because I get to interview my colleagues

and get told great stories all day.

Sometimes I know a little bit about what each producer is going to talk about, but sometimes I know nothing, which is very fun.

This year, in addition to the staff that you know and love, we have some stories from special guests. Some friends of the show will stop by.

This week we have stories of controversial sports logos, copious amounts of

geese poop, odd Olympic events, and modernist penguins. I mean, come on, that's a list of stories right there.

Stay with us.

So I'm here with producer Chris Perube. Hey Chris. Hey Roman. So what do you have for us?

So Roman it is the most wonderful time of the year. It is MBA basketball season. Isn't that like eight months out of the year?

It is, but that doesn't mean it's the majority of the year and also the most wonderful time of the year in my opinion.

Robin, we've talked about branding and logos on the show before and today I want to talk to you about a logo that is overlooked sometimes. It is the MBA logo, so it's the logo for the entire league take a look I've sent it

over tell me what you see okay so it is the NBA logo I have seen I think

many other people have seen it is blue and red and it has the sort of

silhouette of a basketball player like sort of you know he's kind of like in action

has a ball in his hand and says NBA below it. If you have ever seen

an NBA logo this is the one you probably see. So Robin the NBA logo it's

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