This is an I-Heart podcast.

On this episode of the Heat Check, we've got a really special episode, super special.

I sat down for almost two hours with the one and only Jerry West. Not often the Jerry West gives

that much time to one person on the record. I don't think I've seen an interview with him

that long. The thing that I loved is he answered every single question, didn't duck one question, answered everything honestly.

And I asked him a bunch of questions, questions that I was worried that might seem a little bit uncomfortable.

He was open, and when I listened to it back, I think the thing that stuns me to a degree is when you listen to him,

there's just so much insight and wisdom there about the game, about his personal lens on life,

things that we can kind of take into our own lives.

I know I read that back when I was

writing up the transcript and was like, oh my goodness, great. Quick caveat, though. So the nature of

Summer League is pretty frenetic. You get people where you can get them. I didn't have a studio.

There were not a ton of quiet places to sit down. So we ended up

finding a Starbucks inside of a hotel near the convention hall inside of the ARIA, which, by the way,

the Aria is a pop and ass hotel. So it's probably one of the least quiet hotels on the strip.

And there happened to be a convention going on at that exact same

time. So some of the times it gets very terned in our two-hour interview, which was lunchtime

for people who are finding their quote-unquote purpose. Live your purpose out convention.

So as a result, the audio has a lot of background noise, which we've worked really hard to minimize.

If you have a pair of headphones, I suggest putting them on.

It makes the interview a lot crisper.

This interview, just as a heads up, has been edited for time and clarity.

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