I’m familiar with lots of players but honestly haven’t seen one minute of basketball in at least the last 15 years.
Got no dog in the hunt but this all seems like an over-reaction. He was one guy, a guy who played a kids game.
Teams he never played for retiring his jersey? Changing the entire league logo?
Wow, so what happens if a championship team plane crashes sometime. The game is over because there won’t be any numbers left.
I knew Kobe Bryant by name but knew nothing about him except that he played for the Lakers. I couldn’t have told you if he retired 10 years ago or 10 days ago.
The entire US figure skating team was lost in a plane crash back in 1961.....life went on.
You’d be surprised how many teams have gone up in smoke.
Soccer team in Europe, hockey team in Soviet Union (Russia? oops don’t recall).
Yet, the game goes on.
Seriously other teams are retiring the number? He wasn’t even a current player!
Heck I’m against the nonsense about every team having to “retire” 42 in baseball.