Why Jerry West (the Player) Wanted to Leave the Lakers
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
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🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this clip from Trysta's giant interview with Jerry West, he explains that he would have left the Lakers if free agency was an option when he played.
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| 0:37.7 | So with Kevin Durant's request for a trade looming over the summer league, |
| 0:43.3 | I was hoping that we could find a way to touch on this. |
| 0:46.6 | I was only going to ask it if it came up organically. |
| 0:50.0 | But I am curious about older players and how they think about just movement as a whole, |
| 0:59.2 | guys asking out from their teams with lengthy durations left on their contract. |
| 1:05.9 | So he brings up trade requests happening in the newspapers. |
| 1:10.0 | And I thought, okay, I'm going to jump immediately on this. |
| 1:13.2 | What came next, though, was a lot more than I anticipated |
| 1:19.4 | and a shocking admission about Jerry's time with the Lakers. |
| 1:24.3 | There's so many obstacles today, a free agency. |
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