A petition on change.org to make the silhouette of Kobe Bryant the new NBA logo has garnered the support of millions of people following his untimely death on Sunday that claimed the life of his 13-year-old daughter and seven others.
That petition has now reached over 3 million signatures.
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“With the untimely and unexpected passing of the great Kobe Bryant please sign this petition in an attempt to immortalize him forever as the new NBA Logo,” reads the petition, which was created by Nikyar Moghtader, 16, of Vancouver.
The current NBA logo was introduced in 1969 and features the silhouette of Lakers legend and Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry West.
Bryant spent 20 years with the Los Angeles Lakers, retiring in 2016.
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On Friday, the Lakers finally took the floor for the first time since Kobe’s untimely death. Before the game got started, the team honored Mamba and his daughter, Gianna.
The tribute to Mamba started with his jerseys illuminated in the rafters as the crowd chanted MVP before Usher brought everyone to tears with his moving performance of “Amazing Grace.” That was followed by a video of highlights from Bryant’s career — as narrated by the man himself — played before the audience.
“It’s not about the jerseys that are hanging up there for me,” Bryant said in the video. “It’s about the jerseys that were hanging up before.”
The Lakers also held a 24.2-second moment of silence for the victims of Sunday’s helicopter crash before a tearful LeBron James closed it out with a great speech.
“I know at some point we will have a memorial for Kobe, but I look at this as a celebration tonight,” James said after scrapping his written speech. “This is a celebration of the 20 years of the blood, the sweat, the tears, the broken down body … the determination to be as great as he could be. Tonight we celebrate the kid who came here at 18 years of age, retired at 38 and became probably the best dad we’ve seen over the past few years, man.”
