Putting together one of the greatest duos in NBA history on the Lakers took a big toll on team executive Jerry West back in ...

Winning a NBA championship is undoubtedly a team accomplishment, as it requires contributions from the top of a roster to the ...

After getting swept by the Jazz in 1998, Shaq destroyed a locker room until Jerry West stormed in and grabbed him by the neck ...

He always left me laughing. I will miss him.” The Lakers’ statement came later, reading, in part, “Jerry West is forever a basketball icon … Jerry West will always be a Lakers legend.” ...

Lakers legend Jerry West was a hard man to please. As a player, he ranked — and still ranks — as one of the best ever to play in the NBA. That’s his silhouette you see on the NBA logo that ...

Jerry West, whose silhouette was fashioned into the ... and while he only won one NBA championship — his Los Angeles Lakers beat the Knicks following the 1970-71 season — it wasn’t for ...

West was the first NBA Finals MVP in 1969. Hall of Fame NBA player and executive Jerry West -- who won eight NBA titles as a member of the front office for the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State ...

Jerry West is as synonymous with the Los Angeles Lakers as purple and gold itself. The tragic news of West’s passing on Wednesday at 86 offers an important reminder of West’s legendary run ...

The basketball landscape has been forever changed by Jerry West ... His 27.0 scoring average is tied with West for the second-highest in Lakers history, as is his 8.0 assists per game.

The Los Angeles Lakers’ four-sentence statement on the death of Jerry West could’ve been less perfunctory, more heartfelt – more like the warm remembrance Miami Heat president and former ...

Later that month, on July 27, Adrian Wojnarowski (then with ESPN) reported that Jerry West's son Ryan, who had spent 10 years with the Lakers and last worked as the director of player personnel ...