Yes, a sad day in LA, but also a great day to celebrate the dignity, the grace, the competitive nature,

and just the overall stardom of one Jerry West the greatest combination player front office

presence in the history of sports and joining us somebody who's intimately friends and coworkers and colleagues and

worked for and with Jerry West for decades and decades I don't think they would have either had the same kind of success if they weren't in each other's lives.

Hall of Famer and an all-time great Spectrum Sports Net LA Emmy winner, our dear friend James Worthy.

James, it's a tough day, but also a great day to remember

one of the all-time greats.

Thank you for joining us.

Yeah, yeah, you're welcome.

Yeah, this is a a tough day man. You know, I just I just talked to Jerry a few weeks ago about getting together and you know, just reminiscing as talking about Bill Burka a little

bit who's 95 years old and still living up in Santa Barbara. You know so just reminiscing you know

jail was a good friend. Uh, he was very instrumental in creating my career, uh, trusting me you know over guys like Dominic Wilkins and and

Terry Cummins and you know even if Ralph Sampson had come out he still had faith in

and and what I could do for this team you know what my role could be and a team

that was already you you know, superlative.

But, you know, if you really get to note over the years, which I did, you know, all you had to do, if he called you, all you had to do was just say hello.

And then for the next hour he would just pour out his heart.

He was a very introverted guy, but in his latter part of his years, he's very expressive and very loving and just cared about people.

You know, his career was amazing.

I got to see a few of his games

in the latter part in the middle to 70s, but his his impact on my life, the conversations that we had

over the years about my career is very honest, brutally honest, just brutally honest, and sometimes didn't know how to like do it with ease. He just knew how to do it.

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