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Joe Mande creates the Word Association NBA

We can’t decide whether we’d root for the Brooklyn Bloggers or the New York Anxiety.

Do you follow Joe Mande on Twitter? You should. He is a comedian who a) is very funny b) tries to make sense of rap songs c) occasionally causes NBA players to delete their Twitters.

Anyway, he had an idea to imagine what the NBA would be like if the teams were named after the first thing he thought of when he heard a city’s name.

And now people are making the logos for those teams. The full list of 30 is at Mande’s website, but here are the logos that have been made so far:

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