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(FILES) The National Basketball Association (NBA) logo is seen at an NBA store in Beijing on October 9, 2019. Obsessive perfectionism and a deadly jump shot made Jerry West, who died on June 12, 2024 at the age 86, one of the greatest guards in NBA history. His uncompromising will to win and encyclopedic knowledge of the game also made him one of the league's all-time great executives. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
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FILE - Former basketball players, from left, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jerry West and Bill Russell watch during the first half of an NBA All-Star basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, in Los Angeles. Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, June 12, 2024, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He was 86.(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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FILE - Jerry West speaks during a news conference to introduce him as an advisor to the Los Angeles Clippers, in Los Angeles, June 19, 2017. Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, June 12, 2024, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He was 86.(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
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FILE - West Virginia University basketball star Jerry West takes a practice shot in 1959. Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, June 12, 2024, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He was 86. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE -FILE - Los Angeles Lakers Jerry West, right, passes the ball to Wilt Chamberlain Monday night, April 28, 1970, during a game with the New York Knickerbockers at New York's Madison Square Garden. Covering West are Knicks Willis Reed (19), left, and Walt Frazier (10), center. Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, June 12, 2024, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He was 86.(AP Photo, File)
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FILE - West Virginia basketball player Jerry West poses at New York's Madison Square Garden, March 26, 1960. Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a legendary career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, June 12, 2024, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He was 86. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
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FILE - An NBA game ball featuring the signature of new NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is shown before a basketball game between the Indiana Pacers and the Brooklyn Nets in Indianapolis, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, June 12, 2024, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He was 86. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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FILE - Jerry West (44) of West Virgina University shoots a jump shot against George Washington University during a Southern Conference game in Washington, March 1, 1958. Others pictured include West Virginia's Lloyd Sharrar (31) and George Washington University's Gene Guarilia (54) and Howard McDonald (50). Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, June 12, 2024, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He was 86.(AP Photo/Harvey Georges, File)



