Topic - Jerry West

When one of them had his turn to speak, he could barely get the words out trying to say what West meant to him.

Jerry West is first three-time inductee as Vince Carter, Chauncey Billups enter Hall of Fame →

“The times that I spent with him when he was 17 years old, at my house, constantly wanting me to go to the gym, watching him play in the summer league ... he always talked this ‘Mamba Mentality,’” West said in 2020, not long after Bryant died in a helicopter crash.

Jerry West, Kobe Bryant were a match from Day 1, and the Lakers reaped the benefits →