Irving: Kobe Bryant. Logo. Yes. Needs to happen. I don’t care what anyone says

Kyrie Irving talks again about his proposal to dedicate the NBA logo to Kobe Bryant.

“Well number one, I think as a native Black man, as a native Black king, it is part of my responsibility to continue to push our generation, our culture forward. I know that it probably was met with some people that love it — that love the idea — and some people that don’t love it. But, my thing is paying homage to the example that has been set by that man. Seventeen years old; we are drafting guys that are even younger now. Guys that are coming out of different places and he was the standard for our generation. And he will continue on and I want that to be something in history that is changed forever, that our generation was part of that change and if that means that I have to lead that forward and get the conversation going, then great. But I think he deserves it. I think his family deserves it. I think we deserve it as seeing greatness personified as Mamba. And anyone that’s coming into the league should know that that’s the example that was set. And I’m only saying that just speaking about Kob — I don’t want to discredit any of our other historical players that have done amazing things for the league. I am not discrediting anyone when I say that Kob should be the logo because we have so many examples of guys that did things on and off the floor that were leaps and bounds for us to be where we are now. So, I’m just saying present day, I think it was 2/24 (when posted), so a year after the memorial. And it’s just a refresher that this is the guy for us. This is the guy for me. He’s my mentor. More than just an inspiration. I took a lot of knowledge and wisdom from that guy and he’s always around me and Gigi’s always around me and I know that in the women’s game we want to continue to push things forward, but in our game, too, we want to set a standard and precedent like this is excellence. Kobe Bryant. Logo. Yes. Needs to happen. I don’t care what anyone says. Black kings built the league. That’s exactly what I meant, that’s exactly where I stand”