NPR recently interviewed Roman Mars about his Ted Talk on (of all things) the design of city flags. And I was intrigued enough to watch the full video and it was actually incredibly interesting.
https://www.ted.com/talks/roman_mar...signed_thing_you_ve_never_noticed?language=en
Most of what he says about flags transfers directly over to something like a team logo. Especially the bit about looking at the design at the scale of an inch or so. The current logo fails there. Just not the simple, iconic result you want. Four different colors (and one of them - gray - prominent despite not being a main team color) six different elements and very hard to make out when rendered small, something that happens often with NBA logos.
This is all personal preference but I like what Brooklyn, Atlanta & Milwaukee did with their redesigns and I think the Kings are on that same track of simple, clean and classic or at least modern-retro.
But that lion head/basketball secondary logo - that's awesome. Is there anyone who doesn't dig that one?