Gender: male

Nationality: USA

Date of birth:1May 28th, 938

Height: 188cm

Position on the court: shooting guard

Field number: 44

Working for the team: Lakers

[Edit this paragraph] Player's age

Like most NBA players, West was excellent in high school and West Virginia University. 1959 won the NCAA championship, and then joined the Los Angeles Lakers for 14 years. Also won the 1960 Rome Olympic gold medal on behalf of the American national team.

In his career, West scored 25 192 points, averaging 27 points, making 7 160 free throws and 6,238 assists.

West was selected as the NBA's best defensive team four times, the NBA's best defensive team 10, and the All-Star Game 14. In the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of NBA on 1980, he was selected as the best team in NBA history. 1996 50th anniversary of NBA, selected as the top 50 players in NBA history.

As a perfect shooter, he averaged 29. 1 point in 153 playoff games, among which 1 1965 playoff games averaged 40.6 points, and 1970 championship games he shot 60 feet away at the last moment. However, West only won the only NBA championship of 1972. Two years later, he retired and still held various positions in the club. Later, as the coach of the Lakers, he entered the playoffs three times from 1976 to 1979.

[Edit this paragraph] General Manager Era

From 65438 to 0980, the Lakers won the NBA championship under Magic Johnson, who was the first (and only) rookie to win the NBA Finals MVP. From 65438 to 0982, Jerry West was appointed as the general manager of the Lakers. Through shrewd trading and skillful draft, he kept the Lakers in the leading position in the NBA in the 1980s. At that time, the core players of the Lakers were Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Worthy, and the Lakers also won their second winning streak after the Boston Celtics (1968-1969).

After a period of silence in the early 1990s, West led the Lakers into the playoffs, and he also won the honor of the best coach in the NBA with 1995. In the same year, West was appointed vice president of basketball affairs.

1996, the discerning West traded center Vlade Divac from Charlotte Hornets for 13 high school rookie Kobe Bryant, and signed former Orlando Magic super center shaquille o'neal, who has become an independent player. Their "OK" combination finally led the Lakers in the 2000-2009 season.

In 2002, West left Los Angeles and was hired as the basketball director by Memphis Grizzlies. Although the team's performance was at the bottom of the NBA at that time, West successfully transformed it. In 2004-05, Grizzlies won 50 games in a single season for the first time, and he was re-elected as the best coach in NBA. In the following two seasons, the Grizzlies also successfully reached the playoffs and gradually became one of the top teams in the West. Unfortunately, in the 2006-07 season, Pau Gasol was injured and missed, which affected the team's record and made the Grizzlies the worst team in the league again (22 wins and 60 losses). The situation of the team is quite chaotic, and the team owner has 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 exhausted".

[Edit this paragraph] Comprehensive evaluation

No matter as a player or the team management, West has outstanding performance and achievements and is respected by everyone in the league. What he praised most was his draft and player trading when he was in the management of the Lakers and Grizzlies. West can often find talented players for the team, especially the "Kobe and O 'Neal" deal. In addition, it is often appreciated that the Grizzlies built a strong team with Gasol as the core and made the team successfully enter the playoffs. However, before the 2006-07 season, he traded shane battier, an important player in the team, to the Houston Rockets in exchange for rookie rudy gay. In addition, he gave up another star player, eddie jones, in the middle of the season, which was regarded as the reason for the poor record of the Grizzlies. Grizzlies were swept out of the house in the first round of the playoffs for three consecutive years and could not win the playoffs, which is where West was criticized.

[Edit this paragraph ]NBA honor

NBA achievements

1 NBA championship: 1972

1 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player: 1969 (the only player in history who won this honor as a loser).

1 NBA all-star MVP: 1972

14 NBA all-stars: 196 1, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966.

12 NBA best team:

The first NBA team: 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970.

The second NBA team: 1968, 1969.

The four best defensive teams in NBA: 1970, 197 1, 1972, 1973.

NBA hall of fame: 1980

Best team in the 35th anniversary of NBA: 1980.

Top 50 NBA50 superstars: 1996

NBA LOGO

The NBA logo, designed by new york graphic designer Allen Siegel, first appeared in the official NBA publicity materials of 1969. However, NBA officials have not officially announced the designer of the logo. The logo is a silhouette of a basketball player holding the ball sideways; The whole logo consists of three colors: red, white and blue, which is the same as MLB (Major League Baseball). Siegel explained that this is to "create a visual harmony between the symbols of the two alliances."

According to the designer of the NBA logo, the prototype of the NBA logo must be Jerry West. But the NBA has never admitted this, because Jerry West can charge a very high portrait fee.

Player age

1On February 9th, 997, on the All-Star Weekend of the golden season of the 50th anniversary of NBA, the 50 greatest stars in NBA history were invited to participate in the All-Star Game, and received this honor, congratulations from the audience and media interviews. But in fact, only 47 stars were present. In addition to the famous star Pete Malawi who died of illness and the Lakers center O 'Neill who couldn't come because of injury, the only one who didn't attend the 50-person superstar gathering was the current Lakers coach Jerry West. West 1938 was born on May 28th, 2008 in Carbone gleeck, West Virginia. West worked as an athlete, coach and team manager in his basketball career. In every line of work, he showed great talent and became a legendary story that people often talked about.

West is an all-around player with both offensive and defensive skills, but people remember him more as a real god pitcher. Whenever the game comes to a critical moment, Lakers teammates always try their best to pass the ball to West for a life-and-death blow. As a result, he always wins with one goal, without heavy expectations. After countless such key goals, people nicknamed him "Mr. Key". His key goal of winning the championship with the new york Knicks on 1970 has become an anecdote for fans.

1970 finals, the Lakers and Knicks drew the first two games 1. In the last 3 seconds of the third game, Knicks 102 lead 100. After the Lakers center Chamberlain scored a foul, West dribbled the ball three times, and then shot nearly 60 feet (about 18 meters), and the ball actually passed the net. However, due to the lack of three-pointers, the two sides 102 tied and entered overtime. Although the Lakers finally lost the game with a score of 108/11and lost the finals with a total score of14, these have been forgotten, but West's "key" goal has been talked about forever.

Like many NBA stars, West grew up in a poor family. In junior high school, he lost his baseball team, track team and football team. However, this introverted and indomitable teenager practiced hard on the muddy basketball court in his backyard and finally mastered a fast shooting technique. In this hard self-training, West was skinny because of malnutrition, and once had to take vitamins to maintain his health. But he finally joined the high school basketball team with his own skills, and led the East Coast high school team to win the national high school championship, becoming the first young hero in West Virginia to score more than 900 points a season. At that time, 60 universities were willing to provide him with generous scholarships, but West decided to stay at the University of West Virginia in his hometown. 1959 led the proofreader to win the national college league championship for the third time in a row and won the title of "best player". 1960 West represented the United States in the Rome Olympic Games and won the gold medal. 1960 west was selected by the Minneapolis Lakers in the first round of the rookie selection conference. When the Lakers headquarters moved from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, West played for the Lakers for 14 season and led the Lakers to the finals nine times, but only in 1972 season did he win the only championship in his NBA career. During the Lakers' 14 years, he became the most scoring player with 25 192 points.

Except for his first season in the NBA, West averaged more than 20 points in other seasons 13, and more than 30 points in four seasons 1962, 1965, 1966 and 1970. When he retired, his total score ranked third in NBA history and the third NBA player to break through the 25,000 mark. Ranked fourth in the NBA with 27 points per game; 7 150 free throws ranked second in the NBA; 6238 assists ranked fifth in the NBA. In West 14 NBA season, he was selected as the Western All-Star United every year, 10 was selected as the NBA's best team, and was selected as the NBA's best defensive team four times. 1969, was elected as the most valuable player in the NBA playoffs.

The audience not only remembered West's shooting skills and his overall technical style of attack, but also praised his calm temperament under pressure. West's nose was broken at least nine times because his opponent often used hurtful actions on him. People often see the injured West being helped into the playing field by his friends, but he showed great courage after the game started. Won 30 points or even 40 points, and was helped to leave the field after the game. 159 playoff games he participated in averaged 29. 1 points, and 1 1 averaged more than 40.6 points.

1976, West retired from basketball for two years and returned to the Lakers as head coach. During his three years in charge, the Lakers returned to the top eight in the playoffs. 1980 west was selected as one of the greatest players in the 35th anniversary of the NBA. From 65438 to 0982, West became the general manager of the Lakers and established the "Lakers Dynasty" that dominated the whole 1980s. From 1994 to 1995, West was named the best coach in the NBA. At present, exel, Jones and Campbell, the main players of the Lakers' new generation, as well as Yugoslav center Divac who moved to Charlotte Hornets and striker Sebastian Barros who moved to Suns respectively, are mostly his choices. 1996- 1997 Before the start of the season, West completed the highest transfer transaction in NBA history, and transferred former Orlando Magic center O 'Neal to the Lakers for10.2 billion dollars.