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Resume of Jerry Allen West
Jerry Allen West (1May 29th, 938-) is a famous American professional basketball player, coach and manager. Born in West Virginia. In order to commemorate his contribution, the NBA uses his silhouette when dribbling as its symbol.
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, averaged 27 points per game, made 7 160 free throws and assisted 6238 times.
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.
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.
1996, the discerning West traded high school rookie Kobe Bryant with 13 for Charlotte Hornets center Vlade Divac and signed former Orlando Magic super center shaquille o'neal, who became a free agent. Their "OK" combination finally led the Lakers to the first (and only) NBA after the Bull Dynasty in 2000-2002.
In 2002, West was hired as 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, Grizzlies won 50 games in a season for the first time, and he himself was re-elected as the best coach in the NBA.