These days, basketball fans can be pretty disrespectful towards the game's biggest legends. The arguments that are made most of the time is that previous generations didn't play defense and that the level of competition was fairly suspect. With this in mind, it shouldn't be surprising that NBA fans dismiss the likes of Jerry West, who is literally the silhouette of the NBA logo.

In light of "The Last Dance," there has been plenty of discourse surrounding some of the NBA's biggest legends and how they would hold up in today's NBA. Recently, SLAM Magazine asked whether or not West would be effective in the league, and LeBron immediately took notice. In the tweet below, LeBron gave his prediction as to how many points and assists West would be averaging.

There’s a petition circulating online with nearly 2 million signatures to make Kobe the new logo for the NBA. For years (since 1969 to be exact) the NBA logo consisted of the silhouette of basketball great Jerry West, who, like Kobe, played for the Los Angeles Lakers. Well since Kobe tragic passing this weekend, fans and celebrities alike have took to social media to voice their opinion on changing the logo in honor of Kobe.

The Change.org petition, which currently has over 1.7 million signatures from fans, simply reads, “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.” The petition offers a mockup of the potential new design that features Bryant’s silhouette.

Celebrities like Meek Mill, 2 Chainz, Snoop Dogg, Usher and Justin Bieber have all shown their support for the petition, re-sharing it on their own IG pages.

Usher shared the reimagined NBA logo to Instagram on Monday and wrote, “Couldn’t be a better time or all around athlete and person for it.”  He also included the trending hashtag #changethelogo, which was echoed by Bieber in his own tribute post.

Meek Mill redirected his followers to the petition, while 2 Chainz said he wanted to get the Kobe logo tatted on him. Snoop Dogg asked the NBA to do what’s right and change the logo as well. 

Now whether or not anything actually changes from the petition remains to be seen, but it’s clear that the people want Kobe immortalized in the game forever. We’ll continue to keep you posted. RIP Kobe.

In the wake of the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant, Boosie Badazz believes the NBA should change their logo to the Laker great. Boosie took to his IG Sunday night to pay tribute to Kobe, and says its only right that the NBA change the Jerry West logo to Kobe.

“Rest in peace, Kobe,” Boosie said in an IG video. “This shit sad, dawg. This fucked up, man . . . It’s only right that the NBA take Jerry West off the logo and put Kobe Bryant on the logo, man. That’s only right, man. Fuck that, man. You gotta put Kobe Bryant on the NBA logo.”

In another post shortly after, Boosie then shared a mock-up of what this proposed new logo could look like, and it’s pretty fly.

Following the report from TheShadeRoom, who also shared Boosie’s comments on their IG page, 21 Savage and others were in support of the logo change. 21 Savage wrote “On God” in the comments, while other fans were all for it as well.

Sadly, Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were among 9 people killed in the helicopter crash on Sunday morning. Per reports, Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, wife Keri, and daughter Alyssa were also on board and killed. Christina Mauser, an assistant basketball coach at a private school in Corona del Mar, was also a victim. Our thoughts and condolences to all the families grieving during this difficult time.

RIP Kobe.

The Dallas Mavericks and their fans had the good fortune of watching future Hall of Famer Dirk Nowitzki for over two decades, and they didn't even have to wait one season before their next international superstar, Luka Doncic, arrived. In fact, NBA legend Jerry West believes that Doncic is going to surpass Dirk as the greatest Mavericks player of all-time.

“Look at Dallas,” West said, according to the Dallas Morning News. “One player has transformed them into a playoff team. He will be the best player Dallas has ever had. I have great respect for Nowitzki, but Dirk is not him.”