Mark Medina at the LA Times Lakers Blog interviewed me for a roundtable on the 1960 U.S. Olympic Team, which will be inducted into the Hall of Fame tomorrow. That team featured Jerry West and Oscar Robertson and was coached by the great Pete Newell, a former Lakers GM and longtime admirer of West.
Mark’s question [...]
All fans of the Los Angeles Lakers and West Virginia Mountaineers know just how much the spectre of Jerry West looms over their teams. The source of his great competitiveness West drew from his mother Cecile. In honor of Mother’s Day, I offer this excerpt from my book, “Jerry West, The Life And Legend Of [...]
An excerpt from my book, Jerry West, The Life And Legend Of A Basketball Icon, recently released by ESPN Books.
It was 50 years ago this month, in April of 1960, that Jerry West was drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers. The draft wasn’t a big deal back then. Al Attles, who would be taken in the [...]
