Jim Rome's Daily Jungle - 6/12/2024

Jim Rome's Daily Jungle

Jim Rome | Cumulus Podcast Network

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.5 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0	Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.
0:07.0	The only clippers announced that Jerry West, who ironically we were talking about on the program not long ago,
0:16.0	Jerry West has passed away this morning at the age of 86. And even though he was 86,
0:22.0	I'm still stunned.
0:24.0	I mean, it's hard to imagine basketball or the NBA without Jerry West,
0:28.0	without Mr Clutch, without Mr. Outside,
0:31.0	Zeke from Cabin Creek, the logo. Calling Jerry West and
0:36.6	NBA legend does not begin to do him justice. Other guys might have their time
0:41.1	being the face of the league except Jerry.
0:44.0	Jerry is the logo of the league, literally and as much love and respect as he has
0:50.2	received it's still not nearly enough he is still underrated it's nearly
0:54.9	impossible to be considered one of the greatest to ever play the game and still be
0:59.6	underrated but that is the case here.
1:02.8	NBA champion, 14-time All-Star,
1:06.4	an All-Star every season that he played,
1:09.1	five-time All-defensive team, scoring champ, led the Lakers to the finals nine times.
1:16.0	You want to know how good this man was.
1:18.2	You want to know how good of a player he was.
1:20.3	He was the MVP of the 1969 finals on the losing team.
1:27.0	Nobody has ever done that before or since.
1:30.6	Do you know how unbelievably good you have to be to be named the finals MVP without
1:36.2	winning the finals?
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