West enjoyed a Hall of Fame playing career with the Lakers, making the All-Star Game in each of his 14 seasons and emerging as one of the NBA's first dominant point guards.

Jerry West — one of the greatest Lakers of all time and the only player to win NBA Finals MVP while playing for a losing team — died Wednesday at age 86. West enjoyed a Hall of Fame playing ...

West reached the All-Star Game in all 14 of his NBA seasons and took the Lakers to the Finals nine times. Unfortunately, West's Lakers existed at the height of the Boston Celtics dynasty led by ...

The basketball world is mourning the loss of 14-time NBA All-Star Jerry West, a player who inspired several nicknames including a nod to the league's logo By Julia Elbaba • Published June 12 ...

West, a 14-time all-star who won nine NBA titles as a player and executive, later admitted he was uncomfortable being “The Logo.” “I wish that it had never gotten out that I’m the logo ...

David Stern spent 30 years as the NBA's longest-serving commissioner, but he refused to admit the obvious: Lakers legend Jerry West was the inspiration for the logo.

West spent his 14-year NBA playing career with the Los Angeles Lakers, scoring 25,192 points — a number that trails only Kobe Bryant’s 33,643 for the most in team history.He made the All-Star ...

West was, however, bigger than the logo. He was an ally before the term was fully developed into how we think of it today. In another moment, over ten years ago, West spoke about the Black NBA ...

NBA great Jerry West, right, talks with fellow Hall-of-Famer Oscar Robertson during the 2022 NBA All-Star game in Cleveland. West, a nine-time NBA champion as a player and executive, died ...

West, who remains the logo of the league, was one of the most accomplished individuals in basketball history. Not only was a 14-time All-Star (e Jerry West, the 1969 NBA Finals MVP and 1972 NBA ...

After six years of Team LeBron vs. Team Stephen/Giannis/Durant, the NBA has dispensed with the All-Star draft and returned to an East vs. West format in 2024. ... The 2024 NBA All-Star logo ...

West was a force who never left the NBA once he got there – a Hall of Famer as a player, as part of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team and he will go in again later this year as a contributor to the game.