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NBA Legend Jerry West, the Current NBA Logo, Dies at 86
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6/12/2024
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the NBA All-Star.
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Jerry West, the NBA logo, Zeke from Cabin Creek, has passed away as of this morning.
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Some very sad news to share here.
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The 14-time NBA All-Star, the 12-time All-NBA Hall of Famer, and of course, the 1969 NBA
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Finals MVP has passed away this morning.
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We welcome James Young onto the show live right here on the Early Line.
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KY, not how we anticipated welcoming you onto the show, but in the last minute, this news
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about Jerry West's passing has hit social media.
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What is your reaction to what we have just learned about Jerry West?
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We lost an icon.
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We lost a legend.
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We lost the logo.
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We lost one of the best big game players in the history of the NBA, Jerry West, that for
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all his career just could not get by the Celtics for all those years of Red Auerbach and Bob
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Koozie and Bill Russell.
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And then he ran into the Knicks in '70 and honestly took one of the best performances
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in Game 7 of Wal-Klein Frazier, his 36-19, to beat them.
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But finally in '72, he finally got his redemption by beating the Knicks, I do believe, in five
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games to win the 1972 NBA Championship.
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So this is an iconic figure, an iconic figure that, yeah, you may sit there and say, "I
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only won one NBA Championship."
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But he did turn around and win eight of them as an executive, rebuilding that Lakers that
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was really downtrodden until they got Magic Johnson in 1980.
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Eight championships from 1980 to 2017.
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Jerry West, one of the all-time greatest point guards.
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Mr. Clutch, his nickname, one of the best we lost today.
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May he rest in peace.
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