After the tragic death of basketball star Kobe Bryant (1978-2020) last Sunday, millions of people are campaigning for the NBA to change its logo. The silhouette of the National Basketball Association's blue, red and white logo has been modeled on ex-professional Jerry West (81) since 1969. This could change now. A petition calls for Bryant "to be eternalized as the new NBA logo".
2.75 million people (as of Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.) have already signed the online petition initiated by Kobe fan Nick M. In a statement on Instagram, he wrote: "When I started this petition, I was just a 16-year-old boy who had just lost his role model and hero. I did it to process his death and mourn him. My original goal was to get only 100 signatures. I never thought this petition would be so incredibly large. "
The goal is now three million signatures – which should also be achieved easily. Media such as the "New York Post" report on the online petition, stars like Naomi Campbell (49), Justin Bieber (25) or Snoop Dogg (48) have already signed, at the same time the hashtag #ChangetheLogo is trending on Twitter. According to "CNN", a petition on Change.org has never grown faster. The NBA has not yet commented on whether it will meet the wishes of the millions of fans.
41-year-old Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash last Sunday in Calabasas, California with his 13-year-old daughter and seven other fellow travelers.