Jerry West

Name: Jerry West

Gender: Male

Nationality: American

Nickname: Godfather

Born: May 28, 1938

Height: 188cm

Weight: 89kg

Field number: 44

Former team: Los Angeles Lakers

[Edit this paragraph] Player Era

Like most NBA players, West was outstanding in high school and West Virginia University, winning the 1959 National College Basketball Championship (NCAA). After that, he joined the Los Angeles Lakers and Served for 14 years. He also won the gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics on behalf of the United States national team.

In his career, West scored 25,192 points, averaging 27 points per game, 7160 free throws, and 6238 assists.

West has been selected to the NBA All-Defensive Team four times, the NBA All-NBA Team 10 times, and the All-Star Game 14 times. In the 1980 commemoration of the NBA's 35th anniversary, he was selected to the NBA's All-Time Team. On the 50th anniversary of the NBA in 1996, he was selected into the list of the 50 best players in NBA history.

As a perfect shooter, he averaged 29.1 points per game in 153 playoff games, including 40.6 points per game in 11 playoff games in 1965, and 40.6 points per game in 1970. In the championship game, he hit a shot from 60 feet at the last moment, creating a classic scene in NBA history. However, West only won his only NBA championship in 1972. He retired two years later and still held various positions in the club. He later served as the coach of the Lakers, reaching the playoffs three times from 1976 to 1979.

[Edit this paragraph] General Manager Era

In 1980, the Lakers won the NBA championship under the leadership of Magic Johnson. Johnson was the first (and so far the only) ) the rookie who won the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player. In 1982, Jerry West was appointed as the general manager of the Lakers. Through shrewd transactions and skillful drafting, the Lakers remained the leading team in the NBA in the 1980s. At that time, the core players of the Lakers were Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Worthy. The Lakers were also the only team to win two consecutive games after the Boston Celtics (1968-1969).

After a period of silence in the early 1990s, West led the Lakers to the playoffs again, and he also won the honor of NBA Manager of the Year in 1995. That same year, West was named the team's vice president of basketball affairs.

In 1996, the discerning West traded center Vlade Divac from the Charlotte Hornets in the summer trade of that year for Kobe Bryant, the 13th overall pick from high school. · Kobe Bryant and signed former Orlando Magic super center Shaquille O'Neal, who had become a free agent. The "OK" combination formed by the two eventually led the Lakers to the 2000 NBA Finals. -In 2002, the NBA's first (and so far only) three consecutive championships were achieved after the Bulls dynasty.

In 2002, West left Los Angeles and was hired as the basketball director by the Memphis Grizzlies. Although the team was at the bottom of the NBA at the time, West successfully transformed it. In the 2004-05 season, the Grizzlies won 50 games in a season for the first time, and he was voted the NBA's best manager again. In the following two seasons, the Grizzlies also successfully entered the playoffs and gradually became one of the strong teams in the Western Conference. Unfortunately, in the 2006-07 season, team leader Pau Gasol was injured and missed the season, which affected the team's record and made the Grizzlies once again the worst team in the league (22 wins and 60 losses). The team was in chaos, and the team owner had always wanted to sell the team. West left the Grizzlies in the summer of 2007 on the grounds that he was "no longer young and physically and mentally exhausted."

[Edit this paragraph] Comprehensive evaluation

Whether as a player or team management, West has outstanding performance and achievements, and is respected by everyone in the league. What he is most praised for is the draft and player transactions he made when he was the management of the Lakers and Grizzlies. West was often able to find talented players for the team, especially "Kobe and O'Neal" The most famous trade; in addition, when he was with the Grizzlies, he built a strong team with Gasol as the center, and the team successfully entered the playoffs, which is often praised.

But before the 2006-07 season, he traded the team's important figure Shane Battier to the Houston Rockets in exchange for rookie Rudy Gay, which was considered too risky. In addition, giving up Eddie Jones, another star player who was good at offense and defense mid-season, was regarded as the reason for the Grizzlies' poor record. The Grizzlies have been swept out of the first round of the playoffs for three consecutive years and have been unable to win a single playoff victory. This is also where West is criticized.

[Edit this paragraph] NBA Honors

NBA Achievements

1 NBA Championship: 1972

1 NBA Finals Finals Valuable Player: 1969 (the only player in history to win this award as a player on a losing team)

1 NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player: 1972

14 NBA All-Stars Star players: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974

12-time All-NBA Team:

NBA First Team: 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973

NBA Second Team: 1968, 1969

4 times NBA All-Defensive Team: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973

NBA Hall of Fame: 1980

NBA 35th Anniversary All-Pro Team: 1980

NBA Top 50: 1996

NBA logo

The NBA logo was designed by Alan Siegel, a New York graphic designer, and first appeared on NBA official promotional materials in 1969. However, NBA officials have not officially announced the designer of the logo. The pattern of the logo is a silhouette of a basketball player holding the ball sideways; the entire logo is composed of three colors: red, white, and blue, which is the same as the color scheme of MLB (Major League Baseball). Siegel explained that it is for " Create a visual harmony between the two leagues’ symbols”.

According to the NBA logo designer, the prototype of the NBA logo is definitely Jerry West. But the NBA has always refused to admit this, because in this way Jerry West can demand extremely high royalties for the use of his image.

Player Era

On February 9, 1997, during the NBA 50th Anniversary Golden Season All-Star Weekend, the 50 greatest stars in NBA history were selected to be invited to the All-Star Game. He accepted this honor and received congratulations from the audience and interviews from the media at the game. But in fact, only 47 stars were present. Except for the famous star Pete Maravich, who passed away due to illness, and Lakers center O'Neal, who was unable to come due to injury, the only inductee who did not come to attend the gathering of 50 superstars It’s current Lakers manager Jerry West. West was born on May 28, 1938 in Cabin Glick, West Virginia. West has been a player, coach and team manager during his basketball career. In every line he displayed extraordinary talent and became a much-talked-about legend.

West is an all-around player on both offense and defense, but people remember him more as a true shooter. Whenever the game reaches a critical moment, the Lakers teammates always try their best to pass the ball to West, allowing him to make a life-or-death blow. As a result, he always lives up to expectations and determines the outcome with one goal. After countless such key goals, people gave him the nickname "Mr. Key". His key goal in the 1970 championship battle with the New York Knicks has become anecdotes that fans talk about.

In the 1970 Finals, the Lakers and Knicks tied 1-1 in the first two games. In the last 3 seconds of Game 3, the Knicks led 102 to 100. After Lakers center Chamberlain sent an inbounds ball, West dribbled the ball three times and then made a long shot from nearly 60 feet (approximately 18 meters). The ball passed through the net. However, due to the lack of 3-pointers, the two sides tied at 102 and entered overtime. Although the Lakers lost the game 108-111 in the end and lost the finals with a total score of 1-4, these have been forgotten by people, but West's "key" goal has been forever remembered by people. Talking about it.

West, like many NBA stars, grew up in a poor family. He was dropped out of the baseball, track and field and football teams in junior high school. However, this introverted, tenacious teenager practiced hard on the muddy basketball court in his backyard and finally mastered a quick-release shooting technique. During this period of arduous self-training, West became so skinny due to malnutrition that he once had to take vitamin injections to maintain his health.

But he finally joined the high school basketball team with his skills and led the East Coast High School team to win the national high school championship and became the first teenage hero in West Virginia to score more than 900 points in a season. At that time, 60 universities were willing to offer him generous scholarships, but West decided to stay at West Virginia University in his hometown. In 1959, he led the school team to win the National College League championship for the third consecutive time and won the title of "Most Outstanding Player". In 1960, West represented the United States at the Rome Olympics and won the gold medal. In 1960, West was selected second overall in the first round by the Minneapolis Lakers. At that time, the Lakers' headquarters was transferred from Minneapolis to Los Angeles. Since then, West has played for the Lakers for 14 full seasons, leading the Lakers to the Finals 9 times, but only won the only championship in his NBA career in 1972. A championship. In his 14 years with the Lakers, he became the Lakers' leading scorer with 25,192 points.

Except for his first season in the NBA, West scored more than 20 points in 13 other seasons and averaged more than 20 points per game in four seasons: 1962, 1965, 1966 and 1970. 30 minutes. When he retired, his total points ranked third in NBA history, and he was also the third NBA player to break the 25,000-point mark; his average of 27 points per game ranked fourth in the NBA; his 7,150 free throws ranked second in the NBA; 6,238 Ranked fifth in the NBA in assists. In West's 14 NBA seasons, he was selected to the Western All-Star Team every year, was selected to the NBA All-NBA Team 10 times, and was selected to the NBA All-Defensive Team 4 times. In 1969, he was elected the Most Valuable Player of the NBA playoffs.

The audience not only remembers West's sharp shooting skills and his all-round technical style, but also praises him for his calm temperament under pressure. West's nose was broken at least nine times as opponents often used damaging moves against him. People often see the injured West being helped into the game by his teammates, but after the game starts, he is unstoppable. After scoring 30 or even 40 points, he is helped out of the game after the game. In 159 playoff games, he averaged 29.1 points per game and scored over 40.6 points in 11 games.

In 1976, West, who had been away from basketball for two years after retiring, returned to the Lakers as head coach. In his three years as coach, the Lakers returned to the quarterfinals of the playoffs. In 1980, West was selected as one of the greatest players of the NBA's 35th Anniversary. In 1982, West became the general manager of the Lakers and single-handedly established the "Lakers Dynasty" that dominated the entire 1980s. In the 1994-1995 season, West was named the NBA's best manager. At present, everyone can see that the main players of the new generation of Lakers are Axel, Jones, Campbell, as well as Yugoslav center Divac who has been transferred to the Charlotte Hornets and forward Ceballos who has been transferred to the Suns. It was chosen by his discerning eyes. Before the start of the 1996-1997 season, West completed the largest transfer deal in NBA history, spending $120 million to transfer former Orlando Magic center O'Neal, who became a free agent, to the Lakers.

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