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Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving is not afraid to be of opinion. And like many others in the league, Irving wants to see change when it comes to the NBA logo.
Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West has been the league’s symbol since 1969, but Irving believes the league must do everything in its power to make the late Kobe Bryant the new logo.
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“Gotta Happen,” Irving wrote on his Instagram. “Idc what anyone says. BLACK KINGS BUILD THE LEAGUE.”
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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told TMZ Sports he’s on board changing the NBA logo to Bryant. He said he would ‘support it’.
“I just think it’s so much more than basketball,” Cuban told TMZ. “He brought so many people together.”
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Even though West is considered the NBA’s logo, the league never acknowledged that it was a specific player. Sources familiar with the league told Yahoo Sports that there is no interest in having an individual player as his logo because there is so much that has been instrumental in the growth of the NBA.
Sources also told Yahoo Sports in January that the NBA had never shown interest in continuing with change, despite more than 3 million people signing a petition from Change.org asking the league to give Bryant the to create new logo.