We interrupt your usual stream of DP show content to bring you a special episode of a new podcast on the Dam Patrick show network.

It's called Westward.

Westward chronicles the history of basketball in the NBA and how the city of Los Angeles not only saved the fledgling league by bringing the Lakers from Minneapolis but gave birth to the modern NBA with Showtime.

Told through the lens of the great cherry west who helped build the dynasty of the Lakers westward now follows the former Hall of Famer as he attempts to build a dynasty with L.A.'s other NBA team, the Clippers.

Narrators are Keith David Tim Livingston Bobby Glanton Smith.

I hope you enjoy.

Hi, I'm sports journalist Tim Livingston.

And I am Bobby Glanton Smith. Westward is a podcast about the birth of professional basketball in Los Angeles and how the Lakers and Clippers have become one of those compelling and complicated rivalries in sports.

It's told through the man who's been at the center of both the great Jerry West.

But Westward is also the story of why the city of Los Angeles has had such an effect on the game and more importantly is influenced on American culture from Elgin Baylor to Kobe, from the Buffalo Braves to the L.A. Clippers.

This is Westward.

Westward is a production of the Dan Patrick podcast network in I-Hare Radio. At the so-and-one, Jerry West, the Phantom Thread.

American culture has always been inextricably linked to the sports it has loved. And for over a century, the sport it loved most was baseball.

The film is the first time in the world that I've ever seen.

Filled with sentimentality and passed down from fathers to sons, the game represented America's heart.

Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

If baseball represented the birth of the American sport, the game of football was its baptism.

Although team oriented, the game was about power and it was violent.

Baseball may have been in our blood, but it was in the game of football where Americans found their spirit. However, by the end of the 20th century, another American sport would come of age.

Unlike the two other major sports, which were firmly rooted in East Coast acculturation, rich in American myth and lore.

The game of basketball has always been regional.

New York basketball is different than Indiana basketball. James Nase within Ben and the game in Massachusetts, but don't tell that to Kansas or Kentucky.

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