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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Topics: R.I.P., Logo, Callers
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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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