Rest in Peace Jerry West

WuTang_CMB · Post #1 » by **WuTang_CMB** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 1:43 pm

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LiSTWithLani · Post #2 » by **LiSTWithLani** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:08 pm

Wow, what a life well-lived. RIP Jerry!

NBA Sheady · Post #3 » by **NBA Sheady** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:21 pm

RIP the Logo

OakleyDokely · Post #4 » by **OakleyDokely** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:25 pm

SnotoriousBIG · Post #5 » by **SnotoriousBIG** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:39 pm

RIP to one of the best to ever do it....

Post #6 » by **DG88** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:40 pm

RIP to the logo

GP2 · Post #7 » by **GP2** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:53 pm

RIP. He's one of the legends I wish I got to watch. Also, The Logo is the best nickname of all time.

WaltFrazier · Post #8 » by **WaltFrazier** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 3:24 pm

Saw him play live at MLG about 1971, along with Wilt. Against the Royals coached by Bob Cousy.

https://www.nba.com/game/cin-vs-lal-0027000754/box-score

Jerry had a classic economy of motion game, nothing flashy. Dribble at his man hard, pull up on a dime and shoot the J. Long wingspan. Walt Frazier once wrote he can still close his eyes and see Jerry's textbook jump shot launching in his face. I saw him play many times on TV from 1970 on, a hair past his 60s prime but still great in battles against the early 70s Knicks and Bucks. He could have played a bit longer but said he knew it was time because his legs could no longer stop on a dime at full speed and go up into his jumper.

Went on to become one of the best GM's ever, building Showtime. A proud, classy guy, nothing like the disgraceful portrayal of that HBO series.

I'll be checking his highlights on YouTube for awhile, and interviews with Dan Patrick and others, just as with Bill Walton last week.

will · Post #9 » by **will** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 3:31 pm

Da Logo!

PushDaRock · Post #10 » by **PushDaRock** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:06 pm

Hard to see anyone ever surpassing his accomplishments. Top 20 player all-time and arguably the greatest exec ever as well, doubtful we see that level of success ever again.

wegotthabeet · Post #11 » by **wegotthabeet** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:18 pm

damn RIP.

ArthurVandelay · Post #12 » by **ArthurVandelay** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:25 pm

I have mad respect for his accomplishments on the court and front office but I respect him most for opening up about his battles with depression. He was one of the first to do it. He helped normalize mental health and make people recognize everyone struggles…even a 14x all-star, etc etc etc

Brinbe · Post #13 » by **Brinbe** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:45 pm

RIP to one of the greatest. A huge loss for the sport

TOStateofMind · Post #14 » by **TOStateofMind** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 6:16 pm

Legendary player and executive. RIP to the logo.

Rust_Cohle · Post #15 » by **Rust_Cohle** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 6:28 pm

An absolute genius, both as a player and as a team architect

ontnut · Post #16 » by **ontnut** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 6:36 pm

One of the GOATs who dedicated a long life to basketball. Can't really ask for much more from a standpoint career or life accomplishments. RIP.

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #17 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:19 pm

RIP Jerry West

canada_dry · Post #18 » by **canada_dry** » Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:51 pm

Man that sucks.

People like to clown on the era and as a result him...but solidified top 20 player all time and top 3 shooting guard.

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NBA Sheady · Post #19 » by **NBA Sheady** » Thu Jun 13, 2024 4:52 pm

Lakers are down to a game-winning shot. They're in a timeout. Coming out of the timeout Jerry West tells the other 4 guys "No matter what, I take the shot". Pat Riley ends up taking the shot. Jerry yells at him after the buzzer goes off. Pat responds..."I was wide open". Jerry says "They left you open".

Pat tells this story as the moment he got interested in coaching.

ArthurVandelay · Post #20 » by **ArthurVandelay** » Thu Jun 13, 2024 7:03 pm

ArthurVandelay wrote:I have mad respect for his accomplishments on the court and front office but I respect him most for opening up about his battles with depression. He was one of the first to do it. He helped normalize mental health and make people recognize everyone struggles…even a 14x all-star, etc etc etc

It wasn’t until 2011, with the release of his autobiography, West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life, that we would truly understand the extent of his personal torment, his trauma. Of the physical abuse he suffered at the hands of his father as a child. The devastation of losing a beloved older brother in the Korean War. The poverty. The paralyzing depression. West divulged it all in his book, then spent his final decade speaking as openly as any former athlete has about mental health—a contribution as enduring as anything he ever did on the court.

“There’s sometimes things you keep hidden forever, that you don’t want people to know about you,” West told a group of 125 students last July, at the Sports Business Classroom, an offshoot of the NBA’s summer league. And then he proceeded to tell them about those things, in an hour-long discussion that was raw, at times difficult, and intensely emotional. “I’m flawed,” West said then, “because of the things I saw growing up.”

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2024/6/13/24177579/jerry-west-the-logo-obituary-los-angeles-lakers-nba

Howard Beck wrote a nice piece