Trail Blazers fans are trying to raise money to put up a billboard in Portland to show Jusuf Nurkic their support after he suffered a season ending injury earlier this week.

It wouldn’t be a stretch to call the second when there was 2:22 remaining in the second overtime of Monday night’s Trail Blazers versus Brooklyn Nets game the worst moment of the Blazers season.

Fans and teammates watched in horror as Portland’s starting center Nurkic, at the tail end of his highest scoring game of the season, crumpled to the ground with visible compound fractures in his left leg.

The gruesome injury and Nurkic’s extreme pain shocked and saddened fans, who have grown to love the big man, or the Bosnian Beast, or just Nurk, over his three seasons in Portland. To see him felled like that, on a night when he had already scored 32 points (and when there was a growing feeling that this might be the year the Blazers make a real run at the NBA championship), was like a Greek tragedy.

But instead of giving up, Blazers fans immediately rallied around Nurkic, 24, sending thoughts and love over Twitter and now attempting to purchase a billboard proclaiming “We love you, Nurkic.”

Words of encouragement thread for @bosnianbeast27



Shower him with your thoughts, prayers, and words of encouragement in this thread.#RipCity — Pinwheel Empire (@pinwheelempire) March 26, 2019

“Our big fella gives his whole heart to Rip City night in night out,” reads the intro to a GoFundMe called “We Love You Nurkic Billboard.” “We Blazer fans want to show him that same love as he starts the healing process after a devastating injury.”

So far, the GoFundMe has raised $3,750 towards a goal of $8,000, the amount the person who started the fundraiser, listed as Al Nelson, writes “was the high end of a quote from the local billboard company.”

Nelson did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Ideally, the introduction says, the billboard will be placed “near the Rose Garden.”

“If the cost of the billboard is short of $8000 and we’ve raised more than we need,” Nelson writes, “any leftover funds will go directly back to a worthy nonprofit (tentatively the Trail Blazers Foundation).”

While Nurkic’s injury will certainly change the playoff season for the Blazers, he is expected to make a full recovery. So, as with every Blazers season since 1978, there’s always next year. Now, maybe with the help of his Portland fans, Nurkic can focus on getting better so he’s ready for 2020.