Jerry West is arguably the best Laker ever: A championship participant, a coach, and the final supervisor architect of the Showtime period.
Within the wake of West’s passing final June, the Lakers will honor “the brand” by sporting a “44” patch on their jerseys this season.
Nicely performed Lakers.
To be clear, this is not for simply the one recreation when the Lakers honor West on opening night time Oct. 22, it’s for the complete season.
West’s resume can stack up with anybody: A 14-time All-Star, NBA champion, 12-time All-NBA, Olympic gold medalist, scoring champion, league help chief, and a part of the NBA’s fiftieth and Seventy fifth-anniversary groups, in addition to the one participant to win Finals MVP on the dropping crew (averaging 37.9 factors and seven.4 assists a recreation within the 1969 NBA Finals) — and that is simply as a participant. That is not together with his time as among the finest and most revered GMs and entrance workplace minds within the league, working with the Warriors in the course of the formation of their golden Stephen Curry period, in addition to with the Grizzlies and the Clippers (throughout the perfect seasons of that Los Angeles franchise).
