How Jerry West Dedicated His Life to Basketball

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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It’s difficult to identify a true contemporary to Jerry West. He’s the man who spent 14 consecutive years as an All Star for the Los Angeles Lakers. The guy who helped engineer and sustain not one, but two dynasties with the team. A figure whose silhouette literally loomed above the league as the NBA’s logo. So when the news broke last week of his death, at the age of 86, it marked the passing of a giant. Today, Jeremy Schaap memorializes the great Laker. He explains West’s West Virginia origins, explores his life and legacy with the Lakers and across the NBA, and tells us how, in spite of all of his great accomplishments, the harshest critic of Jerry West was always Jerry West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Can you guys hear me?
0:01.0	Yes, we hear.
0:02.0	Okay, sir.
0:03.0	I was just going to say, I know you won't be able to see it, but just like, I have here in my hands, in my possession,
0:09.4	one of my prized possessions, which is...
0:12.0	Okay, listeners, just to orient you a bit here,
0:15.0	what you're hearing is some tape from an interview we did
0:17.6	with our very own Jeremy Shapp last week.
0:19.7	It's Russell.
0:20.8	I brought some show and tell for this so this this is the 50th anniversary 50
0:28.7	greatest fire a thing dalshease and while we're on Zoom, he held up a large photo for us. It was two or three feet wide.
0:37.6	A team photo from the 50th anniversary NBA 50 greatest players celebration and I think I
0:47.4	count 48 guys in the picture this is a historical photo from the league's 50th
0:51.9	anniversary celebration.
0:54.0	That was in 1996, where they honored the 50 greatest players in the league's history.
0:59.0	And Jeremy was trying to take stock of who was actually in attendance that night.
1:02.1	Wes Unsell, Scotty Pippin, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Bill Russell, Kim,
1:07.0	Elizio.
1:08.0	Of the 50 players honored, only 48 were actually there for the event.
1:12.0	And at first, we couldn't really figure out Only 48 were actually there for the event.
1:12.6	And at first, we couldn't really figure out who was missing.
1:16.2	And there's one other guy missing,
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